Google Cost Management is a suite of products that work together to give cost visibility and savings recommendations, and is “good enough” for the basics, but lacks any support for cost savings automation or multi-cloud cost management that Digiusher provides.

Features	Digiusher	Google Cost Management
Solution
Deployment Option	SaaS, Dedicated Managed Hosting & Self-Hosting	SaaS
Multi-Cloud Support	AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba (OCI – Coming Soon!)	GCP only
On-Prem Cost Monitoring	Kubernetes Only	NONE
Pricing Model	Fixed Annual Subscription Fees	Free
Enterprise Pricing Model with Unlimited Spend, Accounts, Users, Subscriptions	Enterprise Annual Subscription Available	NOT AVAILABLE
Cost Visibility
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback	YES	PARTIAL
Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing	YES	NO
Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload)	YES	NO
Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations	YES	NO
Databricks Cost Visibility	YES	NO
Snowflakes Cost Visibility	Coming Soon!	NO
Import 3rd Party Costs	Coming Soon!	NO
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards	YES	YES
Custom BI Dashboards	YES	YES
Forecasting	YES	YES
Cloud Inventory	YES	YES
Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection	YES	NO
Idle Resource Management	YES	NO
AWS Compute Recommendations	YES	NO
Azure Compute Recommendations	YES	NO
GCP Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
RI / SP Planning and Recommendations	YES	GCP ONLY
Governance
Budgets	YES	PARTIAL
Alerts	YES	Budgets only
Reporting	YES	YES
Administrative
Multi-Currency Support	YES	PARTIAL (NO CONVERSION)
Role-based Access Control	YES	YES
Full Audit Trails	YES	YES
Training	YES	YES
Documentation	YES	YES
Support Available	8X5 through Email and Support Website	24X7 Available
MSP-Specific
Single Dashboard to manage multiple clients	YES	NO
Billing Engine	Coming Soon!	NO

Summary: 

Google Cost Management is a suite of products including Google Cloud Billing, Recommenders, and the FinOps Hub that together provide a good set of visibility, savings, and forecast tools for GCP. As a free tool available to GCP customers, it provides the basics that finance teams and budget owners want to know. However, they fall short in providing support for multi-cloud setups and container orchestration outside of GKE, which is where the world is headed. To fully leverage the capabilities of Google Cloud Billing and get a deep understanding of costs, there’s an inordinate amount of tagging required, and customers find themselves lacking support for day-to-day operations, as with services such as anomaly detection. Google Cloud Billing is built for point-in-time views into costs, not for the daily toil that goes into efficient cloud cost management.

If you’re looking for rich multi-cloud and container cost visibility, automated cost savings, and cloud governance, Digiusher Multi-Cloud Cost Governance and Optimization is the clear winner. Digiusher gives our customers the ability to proactively control and govern cloud costs over time, allowing our customers to get more from their cloud.

Multi-cloud Cost Visibility

With over 60% of organizations having some or all of their workloads spread across multiple cloud providers, it’s critical that cloud cost management tools have the ability to track and report on all multi-cloud costs for an organization. As expected, Google Cost Management tools only support GCP infrastructure.

Digiusher provides granular cost visibility for AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as Kubernetes deployments on these cloud providers as well as on-premises, all delivered in easy-to-consume reports and dashboards customized to your users’ business needs. 

Cost Anomaly Monitoring

Digiusher allows customers to automatically flag and drill down to any anomalous cost spikes, avoiding end-of-month surprises. Leveraging machine learning that customizes itself to a customer’s environment, including customizations for seasonality, customers can proactively detect and resolve cost spikes. Google Cloud Billing does not provide any insights into unexpected cost spikes.

Network Cost Visibility

Google Cloud does not provide any clear visibility into data transfer costs in an interactive manner, thereby, making it a very hard for engineers to unlock architecture and design bottlenecks.

With Digiusher, its a cakewalk with built-in dashboards and navigation edited to unlock the data transfer costs.

Enterprise Offering:

Large enterprises, Regulated industries and public sector firms needs to have a secure offering that could run within their own environment under their control. Therefore, Digiusher offers a self-hosted unlimited Enterprise offering in its pricing model making it highly beneficial and apt for such customers. For details visit our pricing page.