Cost Tracking & Savings Calculation

Understand exactly how much you're saving with automated resource management.

How Savings are Calculated

Huskar calculates your cost savings using a simple, transparent formula:

Savings Formula

Total Savings = (Hours Stopped) × (Cost Per Hour)

Based on actual usage and current cloud provider pricing

What's Included

Compute Costs

Savings from stopped EC2 instances, RDS databases, and Azure VMs. This is what you save when resources aren't running.

Not Included

Storage costs, data transfer, and other charges that continue even when resources are stopped.

Savings Breakdown

Schedule Savings

Savings from resources automatically stopped/started by schedules. This represents your automated cost optimization.

Manual Savings

Savings from resources manually stopped/started by team members. Useful for ad-hoc cost optimization.

Savings Time Periods

  • Monthly Savings

    Calculated from the 1st of the current month to today. Perfect for tracking monthly cost optimization progress.

  • Overall Savings

    Calculated from resource creation date to today. Shows lifetime savings and ROI of using Huskar.

  • Custom Date Ranges

    View savings for specific periods to analyze trends or generate reports for stakeholders.

Available Reports

Daily Cost Chart

Visualize cost and savings per day over time

Monthly Summary

Total cost and savings for the current month

Resource-Level

Individual resource cost analysis and breakdown

How Pricing is Determined

Huskar looks up cost per hour for each resource based on:

  • Instance Type: t2.micro, m5.large, etc.
  • Region: us-east-1, eu-west-1, etc.
  • Operating System: Linux, Windows, etc.
  • Service Type: EC2, RDS, Azure VM, etc.
Note: Actual cloud bills may vary slightly due to reserved instances, spot pricing, data transfer costs, and storage charges.

Real-Time Savings Tracking

Huskar tracks your usage and calculates savings in real-time:

Usage Tracking

Hours running vs. stopped

Pricing Lookup

Current cost per hour

Calculate Savings

Automatic calculation

Visual Reports

Charts and dashboards

Example Calculation

Development Environment Scenario

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%

Start Tracking Your Savings Today