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How Make.com built AI cost observability that engineers actually use. In the second session of FinOps Summer Camp, Vantage Inc. moved from theory to practice. Vantage Team Updated JUL 31, 2026 In the second session of FinOps Summer Camp, Lukáš Pokorný (Engineering Manager) and Martin Cangár (Senior Cloud Operations Engineer) from Make.com shared how they built AI cost observability across their engineering organization using Vantage. Joining them was Vantage CEO Ben Schaechter, who added perspective on the patterns emerging across the broader industry. For Make.com, the challenge arrived quickly. As the company's internal AI usage accelerated, AI spend grew 8.7x in the first half of the year. Spreadsheets and provider-specific dashboards were no longer enough. The team needed a consistent way to understand where AI costs were coming from, who was driving them, and how to respond before costs got out of hand. Here are four lessons from their implementation. 1. Start by consolidating every AI bill. The first step wasn't optimization. It was visibility. Make.com connected Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and AWS Bedrock into Vantage to create a single view of AI spending. Native integrations eliminated the need to build and maintain custom pipelines for each provider. AWS Bedrock proved especially important. Because Bedrock usage is embedded inside an AWS invoice, it's easy for AI costs to disappear alongside infrastructure spend. Breaking it into its own cost view and budget made one of the company's fastest-growing expenses visible. You can't manage AI costs until you can see them all in one place. 2. Standardize attribution across providers. Every AI provider exposes usage data differently. Rather than reporting against five different schemas, Make.com created a single virtual tag, AI User, that maps each provider's user field into one consistent dimension. That gives engineers a simple way to understand their own AI usage while allowing leadership to roll costs up by team, department, or organization. As Ben noted during the session, consistent attribution is what makes budgeting, governance, and chargeback possible as AI adoption grows. 3. Focus on behavior, not just spend. One of Make.com's most useful metrics isn't cost at all. Cursor exposes aborted and errored requests: instances where an engineer cancels a generation because the output isn't useful. The team tracks these as a signal of AI adoption quality. A low rate suggests engineers are using AI effectively, while a higher rate points to opportunities for training and better prompting. The team also emphasized the importance of timely data. Near real-time cost updates allowed Make.com to catch a Bedrock workload that increased four to five times overnight after a feature launch. Instead of discovering the spike weeks later during invoice review, they were able to investigate immediately. 4. Put cost data where engineers already work. Dashboards only help if people use them. Rather than asking developers to check another reporting tool, Make.com surfaces individual AI budgets directly inside Backstage, the internal developer portal engineers already use every day. The company complements that visibility with internal AI education and plans to manage budgets by individual AI tool instead of a single organization-wide budget, recognizing that different models serve different workloads. The goal isn't to slow AI adoption. It's to help engineers make informed decisions about how they use it. Three takeaways for engineering teams. If you're building AI cost observability today, Make.com's advice is straightforward: * Centralize AI cost data before trying to optimize it. * Standardize attribution early, even if providers expose different metadata. * Enable alerts immediately so unexpected spend is caught before month-end. AI cost observability isn't just about tracking spend. It's about giving engineers and leadership the information they need to make better decisions as AI usage scales. What's next. The next FinOps Summer Camp session shifts from observability to control. Join Rem Baumann, Director of Product at Vantage, and Ben Schaechter for Managing AI Budgets in the Age of Tokenmaxxing, where they'll explore practical strategies for setting AI budgets that encourage responsible usage without slowing development. Thursday, August 6 at 1pm ET. Register for the rest of the series here. Get started with tracking your cloud costs.

Vantage launches Scenario Model Forecasting. Model known future costs, credits, and trends as reusable Scenario Models, then combine them into custom forecasts on any Cost Report. Vantage Team JUL 28, 2026 Today, Vantage is announcing Scenario Model Forecasting, a new capability that lets customers define Scenario Models that feed into Vantage's machine-learning forecasting model. When applied to a Cost Report, these scenario inputs directly change the projected forecast, so teams can model the expected impact of upcoming initiatives, one-time events, credits, or infrastructure changes on their future spend. Vantage generates forecasts for each Cost Report to predict future cloud spending across all your connected cloud providers. By default, these forecasts use historical cost trends to project forward. While this is helpful for out-of-the-box projections, it does not account for future initiatives, such as optimization projects, large one-time credits or purchases, or known growth that is not correlated with historical usage. Vantage previously allowed customers to influence forecasts indirectly by incorporating an associated Business Metric through Dynamic Forecasting. However, many future scenarios may occur independently of any Business Metric. Now, customers can add Scenario Models alongside forecasted Business Metrics to create precise Custom Forecasts within Vantage. Scenarios can represent optimizations (e.g., migrating EC2 instances to Graviton), bespoke events that may influence your business (e.g., increasing costs by 150% during Black Friday/Cyber Monday), or other infrastructure changes (e.g., assuming Cursor costs will increase by 250% because of developer adoption). You create a Scenario Model in the new "Scenario Models" section under Financial Planning. Each model consists of: * Name (e.g., "migrate to Graviton") * Cost Adjustment Setting (either a dollar value or percentage) * Priority (an integer that determines the order in which the rule is evaluated) * Per-Service Filter to select the costs to which the adjustment applies * Any number of future Forecast Periods, each of which is a time range in months and a value (e.g., -20% in Q4 of this year, when Vantage Inc. make the migration to Graviton) Once these Scenario Models are defined, you can create a Custom Forecast from the Forecasts tab of any Cost Report by clicking the Default Forecast dropdown and selecting "Create new forecast." You can add any number of Scenario Models and optionally include a forecasted Business Metric to create a Custom Forecast that best models your expected growth. You can also create multiple Custom Forecasts, compare them within the Forecasts tab, and designate which one is displayed by default in the Cost Report. Scenario Modeling is available to all Vantage Enterprise customers. To get started, navigate to the Scenario Models section under Financial Planning. For more information, see its Forecasting documentation. Frequently asked questions. 1. What is being launched today? Vantage is announcing Scenario Model Forecasting, a new capability that lets teams shape forecasts by defining their own Scenario Models with custom parameters, feeding them into Vantage's machine-learning forecasting engine, and viewing the resulting projections directly in Cost Reports. 2. Who is the customer? This feature is designed for Vantage customers on Enterprise pricing plans. 3. How much does this cost? There is no additional cost for Scenario Model Forecasting, and any Vantage customer on an Enterprise plan can use this feature. 4. How do I create a Scenario Model? To create a Scenario Model, navigate to the "Scenario Models" tab within Financial Planning. After clicking "New Scenario Model," you will be prompted to enter the following: * Name - the name that you would like to use to reference the Scenario Model * Cost Adjustment Type - whether this model uses dollar or percentage adjustments * Priority - the integer that determines the order in which a model is evaluated when multiple Scenario Models are applied to the same forecast * Filters - provider and service filters to apply forecast adjustments to only a subset of costs * Forecast Periods - the calendar months this model should be applied to. You can enter both start dates and end dates for each Forecast Period, or leave them blank to be applied indefinitely before or after the specified date. 5. Can I bulk upload Scenario Models? Yes, you can bulk upload Scenario Models using a CSV through the "Import" CTA in the top-right corner of the Scenario Models page. Required columns include a title, amount type (percent or dollar), and at least one period column. Each Scenario Model should be represented as its own row. See the following format example: 6. How do I create a Custom Forecast? When viewing the Forecasts tab of a Cost Report, users can now select "Create new forecast" from the "Default Forecast" dropdown. This prompts the user to enter a name for their Custom Forecast and select the Scenario Models and Business Metrics they would like incorporated into it. Once saved, Vantage processes the inputs along with historical spend to create a new forecast. Users can view and compare all their Custom Forecasts in the Forecasts tab, then choose which forecast to display by default on the Cost Report overview tab. 7. How do I edit or delete a Custom Forecast? When viewing the Forecasts tab of a Cost Report, you will see edit and delete icons next to the forecast name. You can edit the name of your Custom Forecast, change the Scenario Models applied to it, or delete the forecast entirely. If you update the applied Scenario Models, the forecast will be reprocessed. 8. Are Custom Forecasts returned by the Cost Report Forecasts API? Yes, Custom Forecasts are represented in the response from the /cost_reports/{cost_report_token}/forecasted_costs API. By default, the endpoint returns whichever forecast is set as the default for the report. 9. Can I retrieve my Custom Forecasts from the Vantage FinOps Agent and Vantage MCP? Yes, both the FinOps Agent and Vantage MCP have the ability to access and analyze your Custom Forecasts. 10. What permissions do I need in order to create or edit Scenario Models and Custom Forecasts? You must be an Editor or Owner to create or edit Scenario Models and Custom Forecasts. 11. How do I know if my Custom Forecast is being processed and when it is done? When viewing a Cost Report, you will see a "Generating Forecast" indicator in the top-right corner while your forecast is being generated. Once processing is complete, the indicator disappears and your forecast is displayed in both the Forecasts tab and the Overview tab of the Cost Report if it is set as the default forecast. 12. What happens if a forecast configuration expires or is in the past? Configurations that fall entirely in the past are automatically excluded from active forecast calculations and marked as "Expired" in the UI if currently applied to a Scenario Model. You cannot apply expired Scenario Models to a new Custom Forecast. 13. Can I create multiple Custom Forecasts on a Cost Report? Yes. Users can create as many Custom Forecasts as they like per Cost Report to model different scenarios, such as growth, cost optimization, or vendor pricing changes. 14. Can I apply Scenario Models to multiple Cost Reports? Yes, there is no limit to the number of Cost Reports to which you can apply a Scenario Model. When viewing the "Scenario Model" page in Financial Planning, you can see the Cost Report and Custom Forecast to which the Scenario Model has been applied. 15. Are forecasts shared across Cost Reports? No, forecasts are scoped to a Cost Report and its underlying costs. 16. What is the granularity of Custom Forecasts? When viewing a Cost Report, a Custom Forecast matches the granularity of the Cost Report, such as daily, weekly, or monthly. Tabular views within the Forecasts tab are available at monthly granularity. 17. Are creations, edits, and deletions of Scenario Models and Custom Forecasts logged in the Audit Log? Yes, you can view all events for Scenario Models and Custom Forecasts in the Audit Log. Get started with tracking your cloud costs.

Vantage launches Business Metric Calculations. Apply gross margin, usage unit cost, and raw metric overlays to any Cost Report, in addition to the existing unit cost calculation. Vantage Team JUL 21, 2026 Today, Vantage is announcing Business Metric Calculations, a new way of applying business metrics to Cost Reports rendered as mathematical representations. In addition to the existing unit cost calculation, users can now calculate gross margin, usage unit economics, and overlay raw business metrics directly alongside their cloud costs. Vantage customers have long been able to calculate unit costs, such as the cost per customer, cost per API request, cost per transaction, when applying a business metric to a cost report. But unit cost is only one of many questions FinOps and engineering teams need to answer. Is its cloud spend compressing gross margins? How efficiently is its AI platform using tokens relative to what Vantage Inc. is shipping? Are its infrastructure costs scaling in proportion to its customer growth? Until now, answering these questions meant exporting Vantage data to a spreadsheet and manually joining it with revenue or operational data. That friction slowed decisions and fragmented the conversation between engineering and finance. Now, Business Metric Calculations expands what's possible when adding a business metric to a cost report. Users now choose from four calculation modes: * Unit cost (existing) - divides infrastructure spend by a business metric to produce cost per unit * Gross Margin - calculates (revenue − cost) / revenue to show margin percentage directly alongside costs * Usage Unit Cost - divides a provider usage quantity by a business metric, enabling ratios like LLM tokens consumed per pull request * Raw Business Metric - overlays the metric value as-is on a secondary axis, making it easy to visually correlate customer growth or transaction volume against spend over time All calculations render on a secondary y-axis as a line overlay, consistent with how unit cost is displayed today. This expands the types of reports you can create in Vantage, making it easier to visualize and evaluate infrastructure spend from multiple perspectives. Business Metric Calculations is available today for all Vantage customers with business metrics configured. To get started, open any cost report, add a business metric, and select your preferred calculation type from the new dropdown. For more information, see the documentation. Frequently asked questions. 1. What is being launched today? Vantage is launching Business Metric Calculations, which adds three new calculation modes - gross margin, usage unit economics, and raw metric overlay - to the existing unit cost option when applying a business metric to a cost report. All four modes render on a secondary axis as a line overlay within the cost report. 2. Who is the customer? Any Vantage customer who has configured business metrics. This is particularly valuable for engineering and product leaders tracking AI efficiency, finance and operations teams monitoring gross margin trends, and growth teams comparing infrastructure cost trajectories against customer or usage growth. 3. How much does this cost? Business Metric Calculations are available at no additional cost. 4. How do I use it? When applying a Business Metric to a Cost Report, you will now be prompted to select how you would like to apply the business metric to that report. Vantage will perform calculations on your behalf based on the calculation type that you choose: * Unit Cost - per day, Vantage will sum all costs and divide it by the summed or filtered business metric * Usage Unit Cost - per day, Vantage will sum all usage quantities and divide it by the summed or filtered business metric. Note that for this, it is best practice to filter a cost report to have all of the same units (e.g., GBs of storage) * Gross Margin - Vantage will use the formula of (Business Metric − Cost) / Business Metric. When doing a gross margin calculation, the business metric should reflect revenue in order to properly make this calculation. * Raw Business Metric - no calculation will be performed, allowing you to see the raw value. 5. How can I assign a Business Metric to a Cost Report and specify the calculation type through API? Yes, you can use the PUT /business_metrics/ API to assign a Business Metric to a Cost Report, and set the calculation type through the calculation_type parameter. See the example below: Allowable values for the calculation_type are: * unit_cost (default) * gross_margin * usage_unit_cost * raw_business_metric 6. How can I assign a Business Metric to a Cost Report and specify the calculation type through Terraform? Terraform support will be available soon. 7. Can I retrieve business metric calculations via API? Yes, you can retrieve results of a business metric applied to a Cost Report through the GET /unit_costs API. See example response below: 8. Can I apply multiple calculation types to the same cost report? Yes, you can add multiple business metrics to a single cost report. However, you can only use a single calculation type on any given Cost Report, in order to ensure secondary axis units are consistent. For example, if you add a Gross Margin calculation to a cost report, all subsequent Business Metrics added to that report must also represent Gross Margins. 9. Can I change a Business Metric's calculation from one type to another? Yes, you can change the calculation type of a business metric by editing its "Assigned Cost Reports" section. Do note that because you can only have one Business Metric calculation type per cost report, you cannot change a Business Metric's calculation type if assigned to a report with other Business Metrics. You will need to remove all other Business Metrics prior to making this change. 10. Can I use the same business metric for multiple calculation types? Yes, you can apply a business metric in multiple forms to different cost reports. For example, you could apply a Business Metric of "Revenue" as a raw metric to one cost report, and as a gross margin to another. 11. Do my existing unit cost applications change? No. All existing business metric applications remain configured as unit cost with no action required. The new calculation types are only applied when explicitly selected going forward. 12. Can Business Metric Calculations be shown on Cost Report widgets on Dashboards? Yes, when applied to a dashboard, your Business Metric calculation will show just the same as on the cost report itself. 13. Are Business Metric Calculations included on Cost Report and Dashboard exports? Yes, Business Metric Calculations are included in any export of a Cost Report or Dashboard that has one applied. 14. Can I have different names for my Business Metric and what is shown on my Cost Report after calculation? Yes, you can now rename the label of any Business Metric when applying it to a cost report. This can be set via Cost Report Label, which is optional. Get started with tracking your cloud costs.