Frugal

Frugal goes after cloud costs in the code, not the infrastructure.

It is an Application Cost Engineering platform, a kind of AI code review and developer tool that reads your source code alongside observability data and cloud bills to find application behavior that costs too much.

Typical culprits include excessive metrics reporting, inefficient AI model calls and wasteful database queries.

Frugal then generates quality-assured pull requests with fixes.

The approach differs from traditional FinOps tools that focus on rightsizing infrastructure.

Because Frugal changes the code itself, it reduces how much of a service gets consumed instead of just moving resources around.

Customer results include cloud spend cut by up to 20%, and the lower consumption also reduces carbon footprint.

Frugal also gives you visibility into how applications drive cloud costs and automates cost hygiene, from untagged costs to repos without owners.

Optimization is embedded into the software development lifecycle, which helps prevent future waste.

It makes sense for engineering and finance teams who want to act on cloud bills at the code level.