Cost Loops

Learn what a Cost Loop is, which SaaS providers North supports today, and which ones are coming.

A Cost Loop brings SaaS spend into North alongside your cloud accounts. Your warehouse bill and your AI API bill then sit in the same views as your AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure spend, with the same charts, the same allocation model, and the same filters.

A Cost Loop is read-only. North reads usage and cost from the provider. North does not change anything in your provider account.

You attach a Cost Loop to an organization that already has a cloud account. Add one at any time.

Available Today

Provider	What it covers	How North authenticates
Snowflake	Warehouse compute and storage spend	RSA key pair
Anthropic	Claude API usage	API key
OpenAI	Organization-wide API usage and spend	Admin API key

Review the setup guide to get started on each one:

SnowflakeAnthropicOpenAI

Coming Soon

More providers are on the way.

Provider	What it will cover
Databricks	Lakehouse and jobs spend
MongoDB Atlas	Cluster and data-transfer spend

How to Add a Cost Loop

1. Open Settings, then Integrations.
2. Click Add accounts.
3. Under Cost Loops, select the provider you want.
4. Follow that provider's setup guide.

Naming Your Connection

Every Cost Loop asks for a connection name. Choose something you will recognize later. That name is what labels the provider's card on your homepage, and what identifies the connection when you pick Cost Loops for a Streams view or for Visibility.

What Cost Loops Do Not Cover

Two limits are worth knowing before you plan around Cost Loops.

Cost Loops carry no commitments. North covers cloud spend with Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and CUDs. None of that applies to a Cost Loop. A Cost Loop reports spend. It does not buy anything against that spend, and Cost Loop spend does not appear in your coverage or your Effective Savings Rate.

Commitments work on one cloud account at a time. You can combine a cloud account and several Cost Loops in a single Streams view or Visibility selection. Commitments do not work that way. They operate on one cloud account, so a multi-account view is for reporting rather than for buying coverage.

Where the Data Appears

Once a Cost Loop is connected, its spend shows up on your homepage, in Streams, and in Visibility. The detail available differs by provider.

Viewing Cost Loop Data