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# Explore costs
Learn how to break down your cloud spend over a date range with Explore.
Explore shows your spend over a date range as a chart and a table. You can split your spend by up to five dimensions, filter it to the costs you care about, and view it from monthly down to hourly.
To open Explore, select **Analyze** in the top navigation, then select **Explore**. For how splits, filters, and Sync work across all three tabs, see [Visibility](/docs/features/visibility.md).
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To include SaaS spend from a connected Cost Loop, use the **Cost loops** control at the top right. See [Cost Loops](/docs/features/cost-loops.md).
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## Setting the Date Range and Granularity
Use the controls above the chart to set the granularity, the date range, and the cost basis. The date range presets change with the granularity. Hourly views show Unblended cost.
The longest date range depends on the granularity:
* Hourly: 7 days.
* Daily: 90 days.
* Monthly: 12 months.
## Reading the Chart
The Explore chart shows your spend for each period as stacked bars, with one series for each combination of split values. Use **Display top** dropdown to choose how many series to show. Spend from the remaining series is grouped under **Other**.
## Highest Cost and Top Variant Products
The two cards under the chart show the top three entries for:
* **Highest Cost.** The chart series with the most spend in the date range.
* **Top Variant Products.** The products with the largest increase in daily spend in a given day, within the date range.
## Using Presets
Use a preset for a common Explore view. On AWS accounts, open **Filters** and expand **Presets**:
* **Regions and Accounts.** Daily spend by linked account and region.
* **Purchase type per service.** Daily spend by purchase type and service.
## Exporting Your Data
Click **Export** at the top right of the Explore chart to download the data as JSON or XLSX.
## Limitations
* **Hourly granularity.** Hourly views are available for AWS and GCP accounts. Azure accounts do not have hourly views.
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