Automated Cloud Cost Optimization with Cashback Protection
usage.ai Software Development / Hosting, Deployment & DevOps
- Monthly visits
- 23.4K
- Up11.8%MoMSep 2026
- Public revenue
- Undisclosed
- No public revenue evidence yet
- Entry price
- Usage-based
- No monthly subscription pricing
- Launched
- 6y ago
- 2020-05-14 · Est.
Traffic
Marketing moves
Launches, search & content, referrals, promotionsLaunched on Product HuntLaunch
Save 30–50% on AWS, GCP & Azure cloud costs
Mar 20 · 8mo agoLaunch page
Launched on Show HN (5 pts · 1 comments)Launch
We built a product to help companies reduce AWS/GCP/Azure spend by 50% — Hey HN: Kaveh here, founder of We help companies drive down AWS, GCP, and Azure spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOp…
Jun 24, 2024 · 2y agoLaunch page
Launched on Show HN (3 pts · 1 comments)Launch
EC2 Pricing Page (Free) — Hi everyone, Kaveh here: Founder of www.usage.ai We just launched a free tool that helps you compare EC2 prices. It's simple and straightf…
Jun 15, 2023 · 3y agoLaunch page
Third-party reviews & case dossiers
Acquisition breakdowns, engineer reviews & open-source metrics- Post excerpt:
- Hi everyone, I've been working on a side project over quarantine called Usage.ai and I finally feel comfortable enough to launch it. We're a service that plugs directly into AWS, automatically finds savings, and applies those savings at the press of a confirmation button all without ever needing to go to an AWS console. I'd love to get HN's thoughts on it! D
- Post excerpt:
- Hi Hacker News community! I've been spending my coronavirus time putting together a better way for companies to take back control of their AWS spend. Our earliest customers have seen savings between 30-40% on their monthly AWS bills! I sent a special deal to companies in YC but also decided to share it with the wider HN community. Let me know what you think!
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a ser
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage ( https://www.usage.ai/ ) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a s
- Post excerpt:
- Hello Hacker News Community, My name's Kaveh, the founder of Usage AI. I've been spending my lockdown time working on Usage AI - a platform that analyses and automatically finds savings. We recently helped an Amazon-backed company find a 47% reduction on their AWS bill (email me for the case study). We're in beta and are selecting a few good customers to lau
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a ser
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a ser
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: Kaveh here, founder of www.usage.ai (we help companies cut AWS spend automatically) We've heard from users that engineers don't like having yet-another-dashboard they need to remember to check periodically. This is our attempt at making AWS cost savings even easier: You can instantly approve new cost savings without leaving Slack! In the future, we'd
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched a new free tool to help engineers understand their AWS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up end up becoming cloud accountants or end up forking over a big % of their AWS bill for a tool to understand costs rather than focusing on business
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ Thanks to the support of the HN community, we've made massive improvements to our savings product from the last post. Since our last post, we've helped companies like imgur.com save 50% on their EC2 bill. We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps a
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps engineers end up becoming cloud accountants trying to figure out what commitments are expiring soon and how much they're saving. Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research a
- Post excerpt:
- Hi everyone, My name's Kaveh: I'm the founder of www.usage.ai EC2 Pricing: https://ec2pricing.usage.ai/ I thought the previous generation of EC2 Pricing Pages were getting quite slow and a bit buggy. So, I'm excited to announce that we launched a free, new EC2 pricing page for the community. Do you often look up EC2 Pricing? Would love to hear your thoughts
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend by buying and selling 3-year no-upfront reserved instances. Why? Because there's almost no liquidity on the AWS EC2 RI Marketplace and it can take a while, if at all, to sell an RI if you need to stop using one. Previous to founding Usage, I worked at JPMorgan
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched on Hacker News for the first time early last year, and we've made a lot of progress since then. We've saved tens of millions of dollars for companies, and we are even more excited to announce the launch of a new product: insured reservations for RDS! We worked closely with AWS on this featu
- Post excerpt:
- Hi everyone, Kaveh here: Founder of www.usage.ai We just launched a free tool that helps you compare EC2 prices. It's simple and straightforward for now, but I would love the community's thoughts on how we can make it better (or if AWS's pricing page is already good enough). It requires no log-in or sign-up. You can access it directly here: https://ec2pricin
- Post excerpt:
- Hey HN: Kaveh here, founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We help companies drive down AWS, GCP, and Azure spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs rather than focusing on business problems. I have been building Usage AI for almost 4 years now (4 year anniversary in 1 month from now!) w
MCP Server & Agent Ecosystem
Agent, MCP & Developer Integration
MCP Server- Ecosystem & integrations:
- Microsoft AzureGoogle Cloud
Traffic sources
Traffic breakdown
Channels
- Direct39%
- Organic Search33%
- Referrals11%
- Social6%
- Other10%
Countries
- United States45%
- India12%
- United Kingdom11%
- Brazil9%
- Germany7%
Search
Domain authority —Domain registered 2020-04-05
| Keyword | Monthly volume |
|---|---|
| usage ai billing | 170 |
| how does aws commitment based discount work | 170 |
| north.cloud competitors | 80 |
| gcp mysql pricing | 20 |
| google cloud are resource-based cuds when shared flexible across projects | — |
Traffic data: Vaneform
Pricing
Trial: None · Enterprise custom tier · Observed 2026-11-04 · Pricing page
Pages & changes
Key pages
Weekly snapshots- Homewww.usage.ai/
- Pricingwww.usage.ai/pricing Snapshot 2026-11-04
- Featureswww.usage.ai/platform Snapshot 2026-11-04
Changes
Design
Enterprise Clean (Light canvas, airy density) featuring headline over large product shot layout and product ui screenshot / component visuals.
First-screen preview · click to zoom
First-screen pitch & conversion flow
“Automated Cloud Cost Optimization with Cashback Protection”
Headline Over Large Product Shot hero structure paired with book demo / contact sales CTA and live generated output showcase.
Conversion path: Headline Over Large Product Shot + Product UI Screenshot / Component → Book Demo / Contact Sales · Trust bar: Live Generated Output Showcase
- Outcome & Speed Promise
- Large Hero Product Shot
- Video Demo
Palette · click to copy
- Typography
- 8.0
- Color & Contrast
- 8.0
- Layout & Spacing
- 8.0
- Craft & Polish
- 8.0
- Distinctiveness
- 6.0
Structure
- Fonts
- Inter
- Hero layout
- Headline Over Large Product Shot
- Primary visual
- Product UI Screenshot / Component
- Conversion CTA
- Book Demo / Contact Sales
- Social proof
- Live Generated Output Showcase
- Navigation
- Full-Width Top Bar
- Theme & density
- Light · Airy
- Corners & depth
- Large Radius · Hairline borders
Preview full AI design brief (includes :root CSS variables & layout rules)Style tokens only; never copy brand names, logos, copy, or images
# Design Brief: Enterprise Clean (with Minimal Monochrome)
Trustworthy blue-anchored palette, structured grids, and prominent customer logo walls.
## Design Tokens
```css
:root {
--background: #f9f8f5;
--surface: #f7f4ea;
--foreground: #1d1d1f;
--muted-foreground: #6c6b66;
--accent: #a5f329;
--radius: 16px;
--font-heading: "Inter", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
--font-body: "Inter", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
}
```
Color area ratio: Background #F9F8F5 (~77%) · Surface #F7F4EA (~11%) · Text #1D1D1F (~7%) · Muted Text #6C6B66 (~3%) · Accent #A5F329 (~2%). Background and surface dominate the canvas; reserve the accent color for primary buttons and active states.
## Layout & Conversion Structure
- Hero layout: Headline Over Large Product Shot
- Navigation: Full-Width Top Bar
- Theme & density: Light · Airy
- Border radius & elevation: Large Radius; no drop shadows—separate layers with hairline borders and whitespace
- Primary visual medium: Product UI Screenshot / Component
- Conversion CTA: Book Demo / Contact Sales · Trust bar uses Live Generated Output Showcase
- Headline hook: Outcome & Speed Promise
- Hero components: Large Hero Product Shot, Video Demo
- Spatial layout notes: Headline Over Large Product Shot hero structure paired with book demo / contact sales CTA and live generated output showcase.
- Visual summary: Enterprise Clean (Light canvas, airy density) featuring headline over large product shot layout and product ui screenshot / component visuals.
## Avoid
- Experimental navigation patterns
- Low-legibility decorative fonts
- Visual novelty that obscures the value proposition
Implement the UI following the design tokens and layout specifications above: use only these color variables, and reserve the accent color strictly for primary actions and active states. Adopt only this visual style—never copy any reference product’s brand name, logo, copy, or imagery.
Questions & evidence
- How much does Usage cost?
- Free: Unknown; Managed optimization: Contact sales. Observed 2026-11-04. Check the source for current billing terms, usage limits and taxes.Source
- How much website traffic does Usage get?
- Vaneform estimates 23.4K website visits in 2026-09. Visits can include repeat visits; this estimate measures web traffic separately from paying customers or revenue.Source
- What is Usage and what platforms does it support?
- Usage is catalogued under Hosting, Deployment & DevOps: Automated Cloud Cost Optimization with Cashback Protection. Supported platforms: Web.
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