Cost Explorer
See what your projects spend, by service, region and resource, and forecast future spending.
Cost Explorer shows what your projects cost. Ask for any period and Cost Explorer adds up the estimated cost of every server, volume, image and object storage bucket, by hour, day, or month. Break the total down by service, region, usage type or individual resource to see where the money goes, or forecast the coming weeks from your recent spending. Costs are estimates for planning and tracking. Your invoice remains the final amount.
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Concepts
Cost calculation
Cost Explorer estimates costs from how long each server, volume, image and object storage bucket existed and the price of each, before taxes, credits and discounts.
Forecasts
A Cost Explorer forecast projects your recent average daily spending over a future period of up to 90 days.
Guides
Break down your costs
Break Cost Explorer reports down by service, region, usage type or resource, filter what they count, and add usage quantities.
Forecast your spending
Forecast a project's spending for the coming days or months with Cost Explorer, based on its recent daily average.
Use the Python client
Install the Cost Explorer Python client, create it from an OpenStack SDK connection, and handle the errors it raises.
Reference
API reference
Base URL, authentication and all 2 operations.
CLI reference
All 2 openstack commands and their options.