Rateplane
Changelog

Product updates

A running record of new features, improvements, and data updates shipped to Rateplane.

April 2026v1.3.0feature

Rapid feature expansion — 30+ new product surfaces

  • Live Costs: last-7-day imported DAILY spend with an hourly average and honest granularity empty states
  • AI Intelligence Feed: Bloomberg-style cost intelligence terminal with type badges (SAVING/ANOMALY/FORECAST/ALERT)
  • Cost Chatbot: natural language cloud cost queries with example chips and AI-style data-rich responses
  • Optimization Hub: unified savings opportunities ranked by ROI with expandable cards and one-click implement
  • RI Planner: sophisticated RI/SP purchase engine with break-even analysis, portfolio coverage, 36-month cumulative savings
  • Spot Optimizer: advanced spot instance strategy with diversification guide and price history
  • Capacity Planner: workload-level growth projection with 3 growth models (linear/exponential/seasonal)
  • Spend Analysis: multi-dimensional pivot table with 5 dimensions (Service/Team/Region/Provider/Environment)
  • FinOps Scorecard: 6-domain maturity scoring with RadarChart and improvement action items
  • Anomaly correlation: related anomaly grouping and triage context
  • Anomaly detector: severity-filtered anomaly review backed by imported spend events
  • Cost Diff: GitHub-style diff view for cloud resource cost changes between periods
  • Cost Digest: beautiful weekly/monthly spend newsletter with wins, watch list, and PDF export
  • Waste Leaderboard: gamified waste reduction with team competition, badges, and active challenges
  • Service Graph: interactive dependency graph with SVG canvas, click to highlight paths, cost-colored nodes
  • Automation hub: power schedules, budget guardrails, cloud event reviews, and shared environment bookings
  • Governance Report: executive-ready compliance reporting with PDF export
  • Cost Notebook: Jupyter-style analysis workspace with text + chart cells
  • Cost per Feature: engineering metrics — cloud cost per product feature/release
  • Allocation: intelligent cost allocation rules with split method configuration
  • Accountability Dashboard: team/engineer cost ownership with nudge system
  • Forecast v2: ML-powered forecasting with P50/P90 bounds and scenario planning
  • Peer Benchmarking: compare efficiency vs industry peers and best-in-class
  • Cloud Advisor: Trusted Advisor-style recommendations across 5 categories
  • Resource Groups: logical resource grouping for cost tracking
  • Export Hub: unified export in FOCUS, CSV, PDF, JSON formats
  • Pricing Calculator Pro: line-item cloud calculator with RI discount slider
  • Sidebar navigation organized by product area with feature-status badges for Live, Preview, and Labs surfaces
April 2026v1.1.0featureimprovement

FinOps intelligence suite — 30+ new pages, AI scoring, multi-cloud analysis

  • Rightsizing hub: AI-powered analysis with scatter plot (CPU vs memory utilization), per-resource 'Apply' actions, high-confidence bulk apply
  • Cost quality score: 74/100 composite score across 8 FinOps dimensions with RadarChart and improvement action cards
  • Multi-cloud comparison: head-to-head AWS vs Azure vs GCP pricing for 5 workload types with category winners and migration calculator
  • Spending velocity: burn-rate gauge from imported spend, budget runway calculator, service-level acceleration table
  • Infrastructure drift: detect unauthorized resource additions, resizes, and migrations with approve/flag/revert workflow
  • Contract & renewal tracker: SaaS + cloud contract expiry tracking with renewal timeline chart
  • Price history: 12-month historical price trends per instance type across AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Cloud service map: visual grid of all 32+ active services grouped by category with provider/region filters
  • ROI tracker: track realized savings from implemented optimizations with cumulative AreaChart and category PieChart
  • Cost simulator: what-if architecture modeling with catalog-backed cost calculations and saved scenarios
  • MSP portal: multi-tenant client management with health scores and revenue tracking
  • Chargeback management: internal cost allocation with cost center tree, allocation rules, invoice workflow, and disputes
  • Compliance posture: FinOps governance scoring across 8 dimensions with RadarChart and violation tracking
  • FinOps reports generator: 8 report templates with scheduling, recipients, and delivery history
  • Custom rate cards: define Blended/Custom/Market-rate pricing for showback and internal chargeback
  • Vendor credits tracker: track AWS Activate, Azure Startup, GCP credits with expiry alerts and consumption chart
  • Tagging policy editor: define required tags, allowed values, enforcement modes with compliance heatmap
  • Alerts log: complete history of all triggered alerts with severity filter and MTTR tracking
  • Annual budget planner: service-level quarterly breakdown with growth rate presets and department budget allocation
  • Team cost scorecard: per-team FinOps metrics with monthly scoring
  • Cloud cost pulse: weekly cost digest with top 5 events, trends, and recommendations
  • Optimization score: composite FinOps maturity scoring with dimension breakdown
  • Event log: complete audit trail of all platform events and user actions
  • Sidebar expanded to 60+ items across 7 organized sections with new icons
April 2026v1.0.0featureimprovement

Major product overhaul — unified catalog, integrations hub, FinOps suite

  • Unified price catalog: single page with 7 service tabs — Compute, GPU, Databases, Storage, Kubernetes, Serverless, AI Models
  • Integrations hub: 26 integrations across 6 categories — Cloud Billing, Data Warehouses, Monitoring, CI/CD, BI & Reporting, Communication
  • Spend anomaly detection: severity-filtered table with expandable detail panels
  • Getting started wizard: 4-step onboarding checklist with localStorage persistence
  • Q2 2026 Cloud Cost Benchmark Report: key findings, YoY trends, top-10 optimization tactics, industry benchmarks
  • Savings recommendations: prioritized optimization actions backed by imported workspace data
  • Enhanced forecast page: confidence band chart, Conservative/Base/Optimistic scenarios, service drivers breakdown
  • Carbon dashboard improvements: net-zero progress bar, regional carbon intensity table, offset calculator
  • Spot instance interruption rates: color-coded interruption frequency table
  • Price performance rankings: 4 tabs — Compute/Memory/ARM/GPU — sorted by $/vCPU or $/GiB
  • Cost annotations timeline view with filter bar (month/provider/service) and MetricGrid
  • Spend page: stacked Recharts BarChart showing 12-month provider breakdown (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI)
  • Kubernetes cost dashboard: namespace and workload efficiency views with honest empty states when data is not connected
  • Account hierarchy: org tree (Root → OUs → member accounts) with expandable side panel
  • SEO compare pages rebuilt: AWS vs Azure, AWS vs GCP, Azure vs GCP with richer pricing tables and feature grids
  • Marketing homepage: provider catalog sections, pricing ticker, and clearer public/connected workflow positioning
  • Executive dashboard empty state: Load Demo Data + Connect Accounts CTAs for new users
  • Sidebar: Anomalies points to the canonical detector; Cost policies, Optimization signals, and Savings recommendations added
March 2026v0.9.0featureimprovement

Alerts dashboard, budgets, waste scanner, and cost policies

  • New /dashboard/alerts page — manage all price alerts in one place with active/inactive grouping
  • New /dashboard/budgets page — create monthly spend budgets per provider with email alerts at configurable thresholds
  • Waste scanner: idle resources table with provider/type filters and savings estimates
  • Cost policies: create and manage spend guardrails with violation tracking
  • New onboarding wizard for new registrations (Welcome → Workspace → Explore → Done)
  • Expression filter bar now visible on the main dashboard with 12 quick-start presets
  • Provider coverage banner shows current offer counts, region counts, and last refresh time per provider
  • Demo data seeding — load realistic spend records, rightsizing recs, budgets, and anomalies in one click
March 2026v0.8.0featuredata

Spot interruption data, CoreMark scores, and currency expansion

  • Spot interruption % column sourced from AWS Spot Advisor (5 frequency buckets mapped to midpoints)
  • CoreMark score column for EC2 instances (ECU-based proxy, 1 ECU ≈ 2,300 CoreMark)
  • Network bandwidth estimates for Azure (SKU-based) and GCP (2 Gbps/vCPU heuristic)
  • Provider filter pills added to FilterBar (AWS / Azure / GCP toggles)
  • 100+ currency codes supported in the currency selector with search
  • FX rate caching via frankfurter.app with 1-hour TTL
February 2026v0.7.0feature

Expression filter engine

  • Token-based expression parser: vcpu>=8 memory<=32 price<0.5 provider:AWS
  • Supported tokens: vcpu, memory, price, gpu, name, provider, family, region, arch
  • Operators: >, >=, <, <=, = for numeric fields; : prefix-match for string fields
  • Tokens render as removable chips below the filter input
  • 12 built-in quick-filter presets accessible from the expression bar dropdown
January 2026v0.6.0featuredata

Price alerts and email notifications

  • Create price alerts for any instance/region combination
  • Alerts trigger when on-demand or spot price crosses your threshold (above or below)
  • Confirmation email on alert creation via Resend
  • Hourly evaluation cron with cooldown suppression to prevent alert spam
  • Alert limit enforced per plan (Starter: 5, Team: 100, Business: 500, Enterprise: 1,000)
December 2025v0.5.0feature

Budget management and cloud account connections

  • Monthly budgets with configurable alertAt threshold (default 80%)
  • Daily budget-check cron sends email when spend exceeds threshold
  • AWS Cost Explorer integration (read-only IAM role)
  • Azure Cost Management integration (service principal)
  • GCP Billing export integration (BigQuery service account)
November 2025v0.4.0improvementdata

Catalog normalization and multi-region support

  • Normalized catalog table (cloudcost_catalog_offers) built directly from AWS, Azure, and GCP pricing APIs
  • 45+ regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP in the catalog
  • Reserved 1yr / 3yr and Spot pricing columns alongside on-demand
  • Spot savings % column shows discount vs on-demand per instance
  • Export to CSV from any filtered view
October 2025v0.3.0feature

Saved filters, comparisons, and team sharing

  • Save any filter combination as a named snapshot
  • Share saved filters with workspace team members
  • Side-by-side instance comparison board (up to 4 instances)
  • Saved comparison permalinks
September 2025v0.2.0feature

Billing, plans, and workspace management

  • Stripe checkout and customer portal integration
  • Starter / Team / Business / Enterprise plan tiers
  • Workspace team invites and role management
  • Admin dashboard with sync log and user management
August 2025v0.1.0feature

Initial launch

  • AWS, Azure, and GCP on-demand pricing from official provider pricing APIs
  • Full-text search, region filter, family category filter
  • vCPU, memory, price range numeric filters
  • Pagination, column sorting, CSV export
  • NextAuth credentials login and registration