Understand exactly how much you're saving with automated resource management.
Huskar calculates your cost savings using a simple, transparent formula:
Based on actual usage and current cloud provider pricing
Savings from stopped EC2 instances, RDS databases, and Azure VMs. This is what you save when resources aren't running.
Storage costs, data transfer, and other charges that continue even when resources are stopped.
Savings from resources automatically stopped/started by schedules. This represents your automated cost optimization.
Savings from resources manually stopped/started by team members. Useful for ad-hoc cost optimization.
Calculated from the 1st of the current month to today. Perfect for tracking monthly cost optimization progress.
Calculated from resource creation date to today. Shows lifetime savings and ROI of using Huskar.
View savings for specific periods to analyze trends or generate reports for stakeholders.
Visualize cost and savings per day over time
Total cost and savings for the current month
Individual resource cost analysis and breakdown
Huskar looks up cost per hour for each resource based on:
Huskar tracks your usage and calculates savings in real-time:
Hours running vs. stopped
Current cost per hour
Automatic calculation
Charts and dashboards
Resource: AWS m5.large EC2 instance
Region: us-east-1
Cost per hour: $0.096
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 9 AM - 6 PM
Hours per week: 45 hours ON, 123 hours OFF
Monthly savings: ~492 hours × $0.096 = $47.23/month
Annual savings: $566.76/year
Savings percentage: ~73%