Most teams already know their cost data is incomplete. Cloud costs are usually covered. But when it comes to understanding cost-to-serve, setting pricing, or seeing the full picture, gaps remain.
They work around it.
They reconcile later.
They keep the real number in a spreadsheet and the “official” number in a dashboard. New SaaS tools, AI services billed outside hyperscalers, private infrastructure, and partner-delivered usage are usually the reason.
Over time, that gap becomes the hardest part of cost reviews.
Even with strong native coverage from hypervisors, new costs show up faster than any fixed set of integrations can keep up. Even with strong native coverage, “total spend” often ends up being an approximation.
Broad coverage across cloud, on-prem, SaaS, and AI has always been foundational to Mavvrik. But that coverage alone doesn’t solve the problem if some costs still live outside the system teams rely on.
To keep a single, trusted view of spend, customers need a way to bring those costs into the same workflows they already use.
That’s why we built Bring Your Own Cost Schema.
What is Bring Your Own Cost Schema?
Bring Your Own Cost Schema lets teams bring external costs into Mavvrik, including usage-based, seat-based, and subscription spend, and treat them like the rest of their spend.
What’s really beneficial is that once those costs are in, they follow the same rules. They show up in dashboards, flow through allocations, and appear in reports alongside everything else. See how this new feature works below.
How teams are using Bring Your Own Schema
This capability is intentionally core to the platform. Costs will keep evolving. New services and pricing models will keep appearing. Mavvrik will continue expanding native support, but teams shouldn’t have to wait for coverage to keep their numbers straight.
In practice, teams use this to bring in several types of costs that tend to fall outside standard billing feeds.
In practice, teams use this capability to bring in costs that fall outside standard billing feeds, including:
- SaaS and vendor costs: Usage-based, seat-based, or subscription costs from vendors where teams want to apply consistent allocation, reporting, or cost-to-serve logic alongside other spend.
- AI tools with emerging pricing models: Costs for AI-assisted tools where pricing blends usage, seats, and shared infrastructure, and teams want those costs governed in the same system as the rest of their environment.
- Internal infrastructure and data center operating costs: Costs associated with running infrastructure outside public cloud billing, including on-prem environments, private cloud or colo usage, GPU infrastructure, and shared data center operating costs like power and cooling that need to be allocated alongside compute.
- License and seat-based SaaS costs: Subscription and seat-based tools that don’t behave like infrastructure usage, but still need to roll up into cost-to-serve, pricing, and margin discussions.
Once those costs live in Mavvrik, they behave like any other spend. Allocations stay consistent. Reviews stay on schedule. “Total spend” stops being a debate.
The impact is straightforward. Finance teams spend less time reconciling. FinOps teams stop explaining why numbers don’t line up. Partners can deliver consistent reporting across customers without building custom processes for each one.
Built for what’s next
As cost models continue to change, the goal isn’t to predict every new service or pricing shift. It’s to make sure the system of record doesn’t break when they arrive.
Bring Your Own Cost Schema is how Mavvrik does that. Try it here →