FinOps without a FinOps team
Most teams running infrastructure across more than one provider find out what it cost after the fact, from an invoice, in a currency and a format that doesn't match the last one. Sencai connects to every provider you already use and gives you one place to see what's running, what it costs, and when that cost moves in a direction nobody planned. You don't need a dedicated FinOps function to use it — you need one place to look.
Every provider, one ledger
If your infrastructure runs across more than one provider — Hetzner for compute, AWS for a handful of services nobody's migrated off yet, a Scaleway account someone opened two years ago, an OVHcloud contract inherited from an acquisition — your spend lives in exactly that many places too. Separate consoles, separate invoices, separate currencies, no shared timeline, and no single number anyone can quote with confidence when someone asks what infrastructure actually costs this month. Sencai connects to every provider you use, across all eleven it supports, and brings the cost data into one place, so that question gets one answer instead of four or five. This isn't a summary bolted on after the fact: it sits on top of the same inventory that Sencai builds the moment an account connects, so spend shows up next to the resource generating it — not as a line item you have to trace back to a server nobody remembers creating, in a console nobody has open.
Visibility starts the moment you connect an account
Connecting a provider to Sencai doesn't migrate anything. Credentials stay yours, encrypted at rest, and can be revoked at the provider at any time — the account, the contract, and the billing relationship all stay exactly where they are today. What changes is visibility. The instant a provider is connected, Sencai discovers what's already running — instances, storage, networks, DNS — across every provider on the account, and that inventory carries its cost data with it from the start. You're not asked to migrate a workload, install anything invasive, or tag a resource before you can see what it's costing you. Active management is opt-in, resource by resource, on whatever schedule works for your team — you decide which servers Sencai provisions, patches, or resizes, and when. But the visibility isn't waiting on that decision: it's there from the moment the account connects, for every resource that account already holds, managed or not.
Catch the spike before the invoice does
The usual way a cost problem gets discovered is the invoice. A test instance nobody shut down, a storage bucket quietly filling up, a resize that stuck at the wrong size after a deploy — none of it shows up until the bill closes for the month, by which point the money is already spent and the habit is already a month old. Multiply that across eleven possible providers and the odds that something drifts go up, not down. Sencai watches spend across every connected provider and flags anomalies as they happen, not as a line item weeks later that someone has to notice, question, and trace back to a cause. For a team without anyone whose job is watching cloud spend full time — which is most teams — that's the actual value: the alert does the job a FinOps analyst would otherwise be doing by hand, across providers that don't share data with each other and never will on their own.
Bring your own cloud, or let Sencai carry the account
Sencai supports two billing models side by side, in the same organisation, and you're not forced to pick one for everything. Bring your own cloud (BYOC) means you keep your existing provider accounts and contracts exactly as they are — Sencai manages them, but ownership, billing, and the direct relationship with the provider stay yours. Or Sencai can provision and bill capacity under its own account on your behalf: one contract, one invoice, covering every provider involved, at the provider's actual cost plus a transparent 2% margin. Neither model locks you in. An organisation can start entirely on BYOC and add Sencai-managed capacity for a new provider later, or start managed and bring existing BYOC accounts in as the team grows — the two coexist on the same inventory and the same cost view, resource by resource, with nothing to reconcile by hand between them. Which model a given resource uses is visible on the resource itself, not something you have to remember.
The margin is on the statement, not hidden in the number
When Sencai carries the account, the 2% margin is shown as its own line, separate from the provider's cost, on the same statement. You see what the provider actually charged and you see what Sencai added on top — not a single blended number you have to trust or unpick after the fact. That matters more than it sounds like it should. A bundled markup is a number you take on faith, because you have no way to check it against anything. A separated one is a number you can check yourself, against the provider's own published pricing, any time you want. It's the same principle behind the audit log that records every change Sencai makes to your infrastructure — every provisioning action, every resize, every teardown, timestamped and tamper-evident. The goal in both cases is the same: give you a number, and a record, that you can verify independently, rather than one you're simply asked to accept because it came from the vendor billing you.
Built for a team without a dedicated FinOps function
None of this assumes you have someone whose job title includes the word "FinOps." A free organisation plan exists with no time limit and no card required — one user, one organisation, five managed resources — enough to connect a real account and see exactly what cost visibility looks like before committing to anything. Paid organisation plans start at €299 a month, with a 14-day full-featured trial that also needs no card. There's no sales call in between: connect a provider and the cost picture starts building immediately, in the same self-serve flow that gets a first resource provisioned in typically under 30 minutes. No spreadsheet, no second tool, no export-and-reconcile step between what a provider billed and what you actually see. It's the same reason a two-person infrastructure team can run this without hiring for it, and the same reason a larger team can stop maintaining a spreadsheet that's always a week behind the actual bill. See pricing for the full breakdown, or how cost visibility fits alongside provisioning and inventory in features.
See what your infrastructure actually costs
Connect a provider and Sencai builds the cost picture alongside the inventory — no migration, no card required to start. Start the 14-day trial or explore the [free plan](/pricing/).