{"slug":"finops-cloud-price-advisor","title":"finops-cloud-price-advisor","summary":"Fetch live public prices and build cost estimates for AWS, Azure, OCI, Scaleway, Gandi, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud using each provider's public pricing API or official documentation. Supports live-environment cost analysis and prototype cost planning. Currency defaults to U","platform":"Claude","tags":[],"authorName":"LLM Mart","authorSlug":"llm-mart","score":0,"source":"github","price":null,"verified":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-05T21:52:09.557589Z","repo":{"url":"https://github.com/VincentChuWaiChow/vanguard-frontier-agentic","stars":24,"forks":3,"license":"Apache-2.0","updatedAt":"2026-10-05T13:00:24Z"},"bodyHtml":"<hr>\n<h2>name: finops-cloud-price-advisor\ndescription: Fetch live public prices and build cost estimates for AWS, Azure, OCI, Scaleway, Gandi, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent Cloud using each provider's public pricing API or official documentation. Supports live-environment cost analysis and prototype cost planning. Currency defaults to USD; EUR and CNY supported natively.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob WebFetch\nmetadata:\nauthor: \"github: VincentChuWaiChow\"\nversion: \"0.2.1\"\nupdated: \"2026-05-13\"\ncategory: finops\nlifecycle: experimental</h2>\n<h1>FinOps Cloud Price Advisor</h1>\n<h2>Purpose</h2>\n<p>Act as a live cloud pricing advisor. Fetch current on-demand prices from each cloud provider's public pricing API (or official documentation where no API is available) and produce cost estimates for real or planned workloads across seven cloud providers.</p>\n<p>Two modes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Live environment</strong>: enumerate running resources, fetch current prices, return a line-item cost estimate.</li>\n<li><strong>Prototype</strong>: accept a planned architecture spec, fetch prices for the described resource types, return a pre-provisioning cost estimate.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>When to use</h2>\n<p>Use this skill when:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the user asks \"how much does X cost on AWS / Azure / OCI / Scaleway / Gandi / Alibaba / Tencent\"</li>\n<li>the user wants a monthly or annual cost estimate for a specific resource type or architecture</li>\n<li>the user wants to compare equivalent resource costs across two or more clouds (including EU and Asia-Pacific providers)</li>\n<li>the user needs a pre-provisioning cost estimate before deploying a prototype</li>\n<li>the user wants to understand the live spend baseline of an existing inventory</li>\n<li>the user requests cost estimates in a specific currency (USD, EUR, CNY, GBP, JPY, etc.)</li>\n<li>the user asks about EU-based cloud pricing (Scaleway in France/Netherlands, Gandi)</li>\n<li>the user asks about Asia-Pacific cloud pricing (Alibaba Cloud in mainland China or APAC, Tencent Cloud)</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Lean operating rules</h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fetch live prices first.</strong> Use WebFetch to call public pricing APIs where available. Do not rely on memory for prices — cloud pricing changes; stale numbers mislead.</li>\n<li><strong>Label every price with its source.</strong> State the API timestamp or documentation date, not just the price. Use the provenance label appropriate to the source (see below).</li>\n<li><strong>Provenance labels are mandatory.</strong> Every numeric price must carry one label:\n<ul>\n<li><code>live-price</code> — fetched from a public API in this session (include URL + ISO 8601 timestamp)</li>\n<li><code>documentation-based</code> — from official pricing documentation (include URL + last-verified date)</li>\n<li><code>assumed</code> — from an analogous SKU or default ratio (state the assumption explicitly)</li>\n<li><code>excluded</code> — intentionally omitted from the estimate (state why)</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li><strong>Default currency is USD.</strong> Switch to another currency only when explicitly requested. EUR and CNY are supported natively for Scaleway/Gandi and Alibaba/Tencent respectively. Load currency-handling reference for conversion approach.</li>\n<li><strong>Distinguish modes.</strong> Label each output as <code>live-environment estimate</code> or <code>prototype estimate</code>.</li>\n<li><strong>On-demand pricing only unless told otherwise.</strong> Do not apply reserved instance, savings plan, committed use discount, or spot/preemptible pricing unless the user asks.</li>\n<li><strong>Do not hallucinate prices.</strong> If the API call fails or returns no match, use the documented fallback chain from provider-fallbacks reference. Label fallback estimates as <code>documentation-based</code>.</li>\n<li><strong>Region matters.</strong> Confirm the target region before fetching; pricing varies materially by region.</li>\n<li><strong>No credentials required for most providers.</strong> AWS, Azure, OCI, and Scaleway have public unauthenticated pricing APIs. Gandi requires a user-provided API key (never stored). Alibaba and Tencent use scrape-based fallback.</li>\n<li>Load references only when needed.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>References</h2>\n<p>Load these only when needed:</p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"references/pricing-apis.md\">Pricing APIs</a> — public endpoint URLs, query parameters, and response field mapping for all seven providers.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/estimation-workflow.md\">Estimation workflow</a> — step-by-step workflow for live-environment and prototype estimates with multi-cloud comparison table.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/currency-handling.md\">Currency handling</a> — USD default behaviour, EUR conversion, and CNY conversion with timestamp requirements.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/official-sources.md\">Official sources</a> — authoritative pricing documentation links for each provider.</li>\n<li><a href=\"references/provider-fallbacks.md\">Provider fallbacks</a> — per-provider fallback decision trees (live API → scrape → cached docs) and Gandi user-provided key handling.</li>\n</ul>\n<h2>Response minimum</h2>\n<p>Return, at minimum:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>confirmed cloud(s), region(s), and resource type(s)</li>\n<li>pricing API source and timestamp (or fallback label if live fetch failed)</li>\n<li>line-item table: resource | SKU / tier | quantity | unit price (USD) | monthly cost</li>\n<li>total estimated monthly cost and annualized equivalent</li>\n<li>key assumptions (on-demand, OS/license, data transfer excluded unless specified)</li>\n<li>open unknowns that would change the estimate materially</li>\n</ul>\n","files":[{"path":"metadata.json","sizeBytes":1617,"isText":true},{"path":"references/currency-handling.md","sizeBytes":5743,"isText":true},{"path":"references/estimation-workflow.md","sizeBytes":11563,"isText":true},{"path":"references/official-sources.md","sizeBytes":8919,"isText":true},{"path":"references/pricing-apis.md","sizeBytes":18804,"isText":true},{"path":"references/provider-fallbacks.md","sizeBytes":16525,"isText":true},{"path":"SKILL.md","sizeBytes":5025,"isText":true}],"reviewScore":null,"reviewSummary":null,"trust":{"provenance":"trusted-source-unreviewed","notice":"Community-authored content, reproduced verbatim and not vetted as instructions. 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