CloudThrottle – Free FinOps Tool for Startups and Small Businesses

FinOps isn’t just for enterprises. We built it for founders and small teams who want control - before cloud costs spiral.

“The best time to build FinOps discipline is before your board asks where the money went.”
— By Venkatesh Krishnaiah, CEO CloudThrottle
Why are we spending so much on cloud usage

❤️ Our Way of Giving Back to the Builder Community

Cloud cost discipline shouldn’t wait until Series B.

The earlier you build FinOps muscle, the stronger your margins, and the more capital you preserve.
That’s why we created the Free Forever Tier — a real, no-strings gesture to help founders take control before the surprise cloud bills hit.

Free Forever Tier offered for:

💻 Founders juggling 10 roles - building, deploying, pitching, and fixing bugs
🧠 Small teams running big ideas without time to track every cloud dollar
💰 Startups spending $2K to $5K per month on cloud, where every dollar counts
🙌 Builders who want confidence their budget won’t silently explode

“We believe in you. We built something to help. Use it. On us.”

CloudThrottle Team

🧭 Why FinOps at Early Stage?

The cloud has no natural boundary - the sky is the limit.

In traditional on-prem environments, engineering teams were naturally constrained by fixed hardware capacity. You could only deploy within the limits of what was physically available - no budget surprises, no surprise scaling.

But in the cloud? Boundaries vanish. Infrastructure is now just an API call away. It’s agile, elastic, and dangerously easy to overspend, especially when everyone’s moving fast and wearing multiple hats.

That’s why early-stage FinOps isn't a luxury. It’s a survival strategy.

Bringing visibility and discipline to cloud spending early gives startups the ability to:

  • Preserve runway without slowing down innovation
  • Detect waste before it snowballs
  • Instill financial hygiene across engineering teams
  • Build investor confidence with cost control

If you're not looking at cost now, you’ll be explaining it later.

“Startups don’t fail from lack of vision, they fail from lack of control.” FinOps gives you that control from Day 1.

CloudThrottle Team