Azure + Microsoft 365 cost report
A linter for your Azure bill.
Spendlint reads your Azure tenant and Microsoft 365 licences, read-only, and marks each estimated saving with how disruptive it is, the command to apply it and the way back.
| Resource | Meter | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| vm-api-01 | D8s v3 · 730 h | £302.44 |
| agw-legacy | Application Gateway v1 · empty backend | £180.00 |
| sqldb-main | General Purpose · 4 vCore | £512.10 |
| law-prod | Log Analytics · 4.5 GB/day | £274.90 |
| bas-dev-hub | Bastion · no sessions in 30 days | £212.00 |
| redis-prod-session | Premium P1 | £226.38 |
of cloud spend is wasted, by the estimate of the people running it. Flexera, State of the Cloud 2026
of paid SaaS licences go unused. Zylo, SaaS Management Index 2026
of Microsoft 365 licences are inactive, oversized or unassigned across five million users studied. CoreView
How it works
Sign in and link a tenant
Microsoft or Google sign-in, then one consent screen for a work account with Reader access. No secrets to paste. A Global Administrator can add Microsoft 365 licence access in one more click.
We scan, you preview
Most tenants take 5 to 20 minutes. Before paying you see the headline: how much is on the table each month, how much needs no change window at all, and where it comes from.
Unlock the report
From £250, once, priced by the size of the estate the scan measured. Every finding with evidence, the command, a rollback path and a portal link, plus JSON and CSV and free rescans for 30 days.
Every finding is an action, not a hint
- Rated by disruption. No disruption, low, or a change window. Nothing that could endanger a workload is ever suggested.
- Priced from your bill. Last month's actual cost for that resource where it exists, live retail rates otherwise, and the report says which.
- Ready to run. The evidence, the command, the rollback, and a link straight to the resource in the portal.
- Counted once, then sequenced. Overlapping options never inflate the total, and the plan runs this week, this month, next quarter.
Three jobs in one report
Cost Analysis shows what you spent and Advisor lists what to shrink. Spendlint does both from your actual bill, then adds the two things neither does.
Cost management
See where the money goes, and prove what you saved
Every finding priced from last month's Cost Management lines, Microsoft 365 licences in the same report, and a savings ledger checked against the next bill.
Containment
Stop the waste coming back
Nine guardrails checked, from budgets that would actually alert to auto-shutdown and log caps, plus scheduled rescans and a digest of what changed.
Modernisation
Change what you run, not just how much
Application signals where Advisor has a CPU guess, the moves to newer services that change the bill, and every retirement and end-of-support date that affects you.
Everything the report does, and where each part lives
Why not just use Azure Advisor?
Advisor is a good start, and Spendlint includes every Advisor cost recommendation, de-duplicated against its own. But Advisor prices savings at retail rates, ignores your reservations, looks at seven days of CPU by default, and never sees a stopped-but-billing VM or a single Microsoft 365 licence.
| What you get | Azure Advisor | Spendlint |
|---|---|---|
| Savings priced from last month's actual bill, reserved compute excluded | Retail list rates, reservations ignored | Yes |
| Stopped-but-billing VMs, orphaned IPs, empty gateways, unused Bastion and NAT | Only in a separate preview workbook | Yes, priced |
| Microsoft 365 licences: unassigned seats, leavers, inactive users, Copilot, overlapping suites | No | Yes |
| Disruption rating, the command, the rollback | Guidance only | Every finding |
| What you actually saved, over time | No | A ledger per tenant, checked against the bill |
The full comparison, thirteen rows with sources
Pricing
Priced by the size of the estate the scan measures, shown before you pay: Starter £250, Business £600, Enterprise £1,200, Enterprise Plus £2,400. Every band costs less than the first month of what a typical scan finds, or the report is free. The preview is free whatever the size.
Report
- Free preview of the headline savings and the payback period
- Every finding, command, rollback and portal link
- Azure and Microsoft 365 in one report
- Rescans included for 30 days
- Free if the scan finds less than the price
Monitor
- Every report for one tenant unlocked
- A fresh scan every 30 days
- Email: what you recovered, what is new
- A savings ledger: realised to date and your return
- Yearly: 2 months free · cancel any time
Partner
- Everything in Monitor for 5 tenants of any size
- Built for consultants and MSPs
- Opportunities per client, never in their report
- JSON and CSV for your own reporting
Prices exclude VAT. 14-day money-back on any report. The bands and the yearly prices, and a payback calculator for your own spend.
For MSPs and consultants
Walk into every review with the number already in hand.
Link each client tenant by consent, scan on a schedule, and open the quarterly review with what you recovered since the last one, plus a private page of what the client is missing that you sell. Partner covers 5 tenants.
Honest by design
How the data is handled, in full
Questions people ask
Does it change anything in my tenant?
No. Every call the scan makes is a read: list resources, read metrics, read the bill, read licence assignments. The report tells you what to change and gives you the command; running it is your decision.
What access does it need?
An account with Reader on the subscriptions you want scanned, plus Cost Management Reader for actual spend. Microsoft 365 licence analysis needs a Global Administrator to grant four read-only Graph permissions once. A service principal works too.
How accurate are the numbers?
Each finding says what it was priced from: last month's bill for that resource, the live retail rate for your region, or the built-in price sheet. Reserved and savings-plan compute is excluded so a change there never counts as a saving. Overlapping recommendations are counted once.
How is the price decided?
By the monthly Azure and Microsoft 365 spend the scan measured, in three bands: Starter (under £5,000/month) £250, Business (£5,000–£25,000/month) £600, Enterprise (£25,000–£75,000/month) £1,200, Enterprise Plus (over £75,000/month) £2,400. You see the band and the price on the preview, before paying.
What if you find very little?
The preview is free, so you see the headline before paying anything. If a scan finds less in monthly savings than its report would cost, that report is unlocked for free. And any report comes with 14-day money-back.