Team Chargeback
Give every team its own cloud bill, with shared costs split fairly.
Team Chargeback allocates cloud spend to teams, products and customers. Shared costs such as Kubernetes clusters, networking, observability and support plans are split with clear rules, and each team gets a monthly statement it can understand.
What it does
Built for the engineers who make the change, and the finance team that checks it.
Allocation hierarchy
Model business units, teams, products and customers, and map accounts, tags and labels onto them.
Shared cost rules
Split shared costs evenly, by fixed ratios, by direct spend, or by usage such as CPU-hours or bytes processed.
Kubernetes splits
Cluster cost shared by namespace using requests or actual usage, with idle capacity shown separately.
Customer cost
Cost per tenant or customer for SaaS unit economics, using tags, labels or a daily usage feed.
Monthly statements
A statement for each team with direct and shared costs, changes from last month and the reasons.
Showback or chargeback
Start with showback for visibility, and move to chargeback once teams agree with the numbers.
How it works
Team Chargeback, step by step.
Good to know
- Rules are visible to every team
- Unallocated spend is always shown, never hidden
- Statements match the invoice to the cent
- Export to your finance system as CSV
- 01
Structure is defined
Describe your teams and products once. Accounts, tags and labels are mapped onto that structure.
- 02
Direct costs are assigned
Spend that clearly belongs to one owner is assigned directly.
- 03
Shared costs are split
Shared items are split with the rule you chose, and the rule is printed on every statement.
- 04
Statements are sent
Each team lead receives a monthly statement and can raise a question on any line.
Questions
About Team Chargeback
How are shared Kubernetes costs split?
By CPU and memory requests, by actual usage, or a blend of both. Idle node capacity can be shown separately or spread across teams.
Does the total always match the invoice?
Yes. Every dollar on the invoice is either allocated or shown as unallocated, so the statements always add up to the bill.
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