--- title: "STACKIT Cost Management" description: "Central, complimentary platform service for tracking, observing, analyzing, and allocating all cloud resource costs across your organization." scfAsset: category: "service" managed: false marketplaceUrl: "https://marketplace.stackit.cloud/en/products" tags: ["FinOps", "Cost Management", "Billing", "Governance"] maintainers: - user: "alexander.gabert" source_url: "https://framework.stackit.cloud/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-service-cost-management/" source_file: "docs/advisory/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-service-cost-management.mdx" --- STACKIT Cost Management is an included platform service that offers real-time visibility, cost analysis, and billing governance across all STACKIT projects. ## Service Overview - **Complete Cost Control**: Hourly-updated observability across all cost points down to single resource tags. - **Included at No Extra Cost**: Available free of charge across the entire organization without consumption commitments. - **Role-Based Financial Insights**: Empowers solution architects, procurement teams, and decision-makers. - **Audit-Proof Accounting**: Generates GoBD-conform collective invoices and central billing management. ## Technical Details - **Reporting & Observability**: Real-time dashboards, custom cost report generation, and exportable FOCUS reports. - **Allocation & Tagging**: Cause-based cost allocation utilizing resource tags as a basis for showback and chargeback. - **Access Hierarchy**: Role-based access control (RBAC) with hierarchical access inheritance for financial data. - **Integrations**: REST-API and portal interfaces for exporting data directly into enterprise FinOps tooling. ## Limitations & Constraints - **Data Latency**: Operates on hourly batch updates rather than instant millisecond streaming. - **Timezone Standardization**: All timeslots and billing cycles are fixed strictly to the UTC timezone. - **Strict Project Relations**: Maintains 1-on-1 project-to-invoice mappings on a strict monthly basis. - **Analytics Scope**: Does not provide native AI cost forecasts; requires external BI solutions for advanced predictive modeling.