Is Your Tech Making or Losing You Money?

A lot of CEOs can't answer that question and that's OK.

Start with one real read on your data. Upgrade when more teams need the same answer.

If you are struggling to understand if your tech is making or losing you money, then subscribing to Terrain is the right decision.

No seat fees. No savings share. No percentage of spend. Pick by sources, team context, and governance.

Read-only accessReal answers, or honest missing-data statesCloud billing data stays in your cloud by defaultTerrain can host analysis when no cloud account is connectedUnlimited seatsNo percentage of spend

Every plan starts with source-truth-backed answers. What changes is who is deciding and how much of the company is coordinated behind the answer.

Free First Findings

Prove it.

“I need proof on my data.”

Starter

One team decides.

“One team needs daily answers.”

Growth

Teams agree.

“Finance, Engineering, AI, and data teams need the same answer.”

Pro

Company governs.

“We need controls, owners, audit, and review-ready records.”

Enterprise

Company standardizes.

“We need custom rollout, retention, and security.”

Free First Findings

Prove it.

“I need proof on my data.”

Starter

One team decides.

“One team needs daily answers.”

Growth

Teams agree.

“Finance, Engineering, AI, and data teams need the same answer.”

Pro

Company governs.

“We need controls, owners, audit, and review-ready records.”

Enterprise

Company standardizes.

“We need custom rollout, retention, and security.”

Free First Findings

Prove it.

No card required.

Start here if

I want to see if Terrain finds something real
One source is enough for now
No card required to start

You get

A one-time First Findings pass on your data
Ask why inside a finding
In-app and email delivery
Honest missing-data disclosure

1 proof source · No card required

Upgrade when

You want daily answers, not a one-time read.

Starter

One team decides.

$497/mo

billed annually

You save $1,224/yr vs monthly

Start here if

One team needs daily answers
You want Slack or Teams context
You need saved decisions

You get

Daily answers for one team
One cloud source (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and one data and AI platform (Snowflake or Databricks)
AI usage and spend for one team
Comments from Slack or Teams
Saved decisions with proof, objectives, KPIs, and Ask why

1 cloud · 1 platform · 1 team · 6 months context

Upgrade when

Teams agree.

$997/mo

billed annually

You save $2,424/yr vs monthly

Start here if

Multiple teams need the same answer
Slack + Teams across teams
Cross-team context search

You get

One answer Finance, Engineering, AI, and data teams can share
AI usage, model cost, and value evidence across teams
Two clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and two data and AI platforms (Snowflake, Databricks)
Slack and Teams across teams
Cross-team context search
Selected team comments preserved in saved decisions

2 clouds · 2 platforms · Up to 3 AI providers · 18 months context

Upgrade when

The process needs governance, advanced permissions, or audit-ready records.

Cancel anytime. Billing terms apply.

Pro

Company governs.

$1,997/mo

billed annually

You save $4,824/yr vs monthly

Start here if

Roles, permissions, and audit history
Cross-source AI economics
Extended retention and admin controls

You get

Review-ready decisions leadership can defend
Advanced roles and permissions
Audit-ready activity history across the workspace
AI decisions with audit-ready proof
Slack Connect for cross-org partners

3 clouds · Unlimited platforms · All supported AI providers · 3 years context

Upgrade when

Rollout, retention, security, or value models become company-specific.

Cancel anytime. Billing terms apply.

Enterprise

Company standardizes.

Custom

Tailored to your rollout.

Start here if

Custom rollout and retention
Security review and deployment controls
Executive review cadence

You get

Custom rollout, retention, and security posture
Deployment support and security review
Executive review cadence and business reviews
Custom decision playbooks tailored to your teams
Company-wide AI adoption and custom value model

Unlimited sources · Custom controls

Deployment posture

Where Terrain reads your data

Which one is you?

Cloud billing connected

Connect AWS, Azure, or GCP billing (or Databricks tied to a cloud account) and Terrain reads the data inside your cloud. Your data stays under your access controls.

AI and data tools only

If your relevant sources are Vercel, Snowflake, BI tools, or AI providers with no direct cloud billing, Terrain can host the read-only analysis so you do not have to stand up a cloud deployment just to prove the job.

Connected cloud billing uses the first posture by default. Enterprise adds deployment support, security review, and custom controls on top of either option.

Sources Terrain supports

What counts as a source

When a tier says "1 cloud" or "1 platform," this is what it means.

Cloud billing

AWS, Azure, GCP

Also captures cloud-native AI (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry / Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI, Google Gemini paid API, Snowflake Cortex, Databricks Foundation Models) and enterprise Cohere where it appears in the bill.

Data and AI platforms

Snowflake, Databricks

Direct AI providers

OpenAI, Anthropic

Mistral and xAI (Grok) coming next. What Terrain shows depends on what the provider exposes and your entitlement.

Other platform billing

Planned

Vercel, Redis, Grafana Cloud, and similar supported sources

Shipped-only in the examples list. Planned rows are on the near-term roadmap.

Need detail? Expand a band.

Rows marked Planned or By agreement are not sold as generally available features.

Evidence Terrain can use

The source truth Terrain uses to answer a decision question. Every plan carries source truth with missing-data honesty; what changes is how much of it Terrain can see.

Capability	What it means	Free First Findings	Starter	Growth	Pro	Enterprise
Cloud billing	What cloud spend should we cut, keep, defend, or forecast?	1 proof source if selected	1 cloud	Up to 2	Up to 3	Unlimited
Data and AI platforms	Which warehouse, lakehouse, search/vector, or AI work inside a data platform is worth defending?	1 proof source if selected	1 supported platform	Up to 2	Unlimited supported	Unlimited + custom
Direct AI providers	Which models, apps, requests, and token spend should we fund, fix, cap, or defend? What Terrain shows from each provider depends on what that provider exposes and your entitlement.	1 proof source if selected	Up to 2 supported	Up to 3 supported	All supported	All + custom
Source health and freshness	Can Terrain trust the answer, or is data missing, stale, or native-unit-only?	Proof source only	Connected sources	Connected sources	Connected sources	Custom policies
Manual value inputsPlanned	Enter a target, baseline, estimate, or denominator directly.		Coming next	Coming next	Coming next	Coming next
Bring in KPIs from spreadsheets or BI toolsPlanned	Turn a spreadsheet upload or BI KPI into the value denominator Terrain needs.			Growth target	Planned	Planned
Connect business systems when Terrain needs a value denominatorBy agreement	Pull revenue, margin, budget, or usage evidence to defend a decision.			Supported systems by agreement	Supported systems by agreement	Custom systems by agreement
Enterprise value modelBy agreement	Custom formulas, allocations, and executive value reporting mapped to your company.					Custom / by agreement

Team context and decisions

How your team's context flows into the answer, gets saved into a decision, and turns into follow-through. Team Pulse is what the team thinks, not measured evidence, and it respects the permission boundaries of every channel it comes from.

Capability	What it means	Free First Findings	Starter	Growth	Pro	Enterprise
Team setup	Who can add context and own follow-up.	Viewers only	One invited or ad-hoc team	Multiple ad-hoc or workspace-derived teams	Directory-synced teams	Custom org model
Slack / Teams	Capture team context where work already happens.		Slack or Teams for one team	Slack + Teams across teams	Slack + Teams + Slack Connect	Custom deployment
Search team context	Find what people already said before re-litigating a decision.		One team; 6 months rolling	Cross-team; 18 months rolling	Across sources and decisions; 3 years rolling	Custom scope and retention
Comments and reactions	Capture questions, concerns, approvals, blockers, and owner notes on any answer, objective, or metric.		One team	Cross-team	Governed	Custom retention and compliance
Saved decisions with proof	Freeze what Terrain knew, what the team said, and what was decided.		Basic saved decisions	Saved decisions with team context	Review-ready saved decisions	Executive / custom saved decisions
Follow-up ownership	Make sure someone owns the action.		Manual owner	Owner and team	Governed owner workflow	Custom approval chains
Turn approved follow-ups into accountable workPlanned	Move approved decisions into your team's tracking system.		Manual	Coming next	Planned	Custom by agreement

Access and governance

Basic SSO is baseline on every plan. Fences here are custom identity, audit-ready activity, and admin/RBAC. Not whether you can log in with Google or Microsoft.

Capability	What it means	Free First Findings	Starter	Growth	Pro	Enterprise
Google / Microsoft login	Log in with a corporate identity provider.	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Custom SAML / OIDCBy agreement	Bring your own enterprise IdP.				By agreement	By agreement
SCIM provisioningBy agreement	Automated user provisioning and de-provisioning from your IdP.				By agreement	By agreement
Directory group mappingBy agreement	Map IdP groups to Terrain teams and roles.				By agreement	By agreement
Role-based access control	Restrict who can see, edit, or approve inside Terrain.		Basic	Basic	Advanced	Custom review workflows
Activity history	See what changed, who did it, and when.		Basic	Included	Audit-ready	Audit-ready with custom controls
Custom retention and compliance controlsBy agreement	Retention policies that preserve records so they cannot be deleted during a legal or regulatory review.					Custom / by agreement

Deployment and security

When cloud billing is connected, Terrain reads the data inside your cloud by default. Enterprise adds deployment support, security review, and custom controls.

Capability	What it means	Free First Findings	Starter	Growth	Pro	Enterprise
Data stays in your cloud when cloud billing is connected	Terrain reads billing data inside your cloud account by default.	If proof source requires it	Included	Included	Included	Included
Deployment support and security review	Hands-on deployment support, security review, and custom deployment controls.				Standard support	Custom support

Public definitions

A short glossary, so you do not have to decode our language.

Saved decision

A saved Terrain answer that freezes what the data proved, what your team said, what you decided, and what happened next.

Team context

Comments, reactions, questions, concerns, approvals, blockers, and owner notes from Terrain, Slack, or Teams.

Value denominator

The business measure Terrain needs before it can call something ROI: revenue, margin, productivity, quality, or customer outcome.

Data and AI platforms

Warehouses, lakehouses, search and vector stores, and data platforms where usage, compute, and AI workload cost converge.

Cloud-resident analysis

When cloud billing is connected, Terrain reads the data inside your cloud by default. Enterprise adds custom deployment support and security review.

FAQ

Common questions about Terrain pricing.

Is Free First Findings a trial?+

No. Free First Findings is a free proof tier. You connect one proof source (cloud cost data, Anthropic or another supported AI provider, Snowflake, or Databricks) and get one source-truth-backed first read. You can ask scoped follow-up questions inside that finding, but it does not become the ongoing daily brief. Until self-serve onboarding is live, schedule a short call and we will set up your first proof source with you.

What should I connect first?+

If you want the broadest economic proof, start with cloud billing data. Terrain can show recoverable optimization capacity, attribution gaps, commitment coverage, and cloud-billed AI spend where present. If your urgency is AI spend, start with Anthropic, OpenAI, or another supported AI provider. Terrain will show unit economics, spend drift, model mix, and missing value-denominator truth without overclaiming ROI. If your urgency is warehouse or lakehouse spend, start with Snowflake or Databricks. Terrain shows native-unit waste, usage patterns, and attribution gaps, and where Cortex or Serving is connected, AI workload unit economics inside the data platform.

Why price by decision scope instead of percentage of spend?+

Because Terrain should not make more money when your waste grows. The tier progression matches how technology decisions actually scale inside a company: prove it, one team decides, teams agree, company governs, company standardizes. Percentage-of-spend pricing creates the opposite incentive. The vendor wins when your bill grows.

Do you charge per seat?+

No. Terrain is meant to become a shared operating surface for Finance, Engineering, AI leadership, and executives. Add the people who need the answer.

How does Terrain capture what my team knows?+

Starter: in-app comments plus Slack or Teams from one workspace, with 6 months of team context to search.
Growth: Slack and Teams across teams, cross-team context search, and 18 months of retention.
Pro: team context searchable across sources and decisions, with 3 years of retention and review-ready decisions.
Enterprise: custom retention and compliance controls, custom review workflows, and deployment support with security review.
Comments always respect the permission boundaries of the channel they came from.

Is Team Pulse employee surveillance?+

No. What we call Team Pulse is what your team thinks about an answer, metric, chart, source, or decision: reactions, comment types, recurring concerns, and open blockers. It is context, not measured evidence, and it is never presented as proof. It is not tied to individual productivity scores or evaluations, and it respects the permission boundaries of every channel it comes from. Human comments and reactions inform decisions; they do not replace source truth.

Can Terrain show AI ROI?+

AI spend is not AI ROI. Terrain shows usage, spend, token economics, model mix, and provider-exposed workflow activity when a connected source supports it. Company-wide adoption evidence depends on the provider's enterprise or admin analytics. Terrain only calls it ROI when a real value denominator supports it: revenue, margin, productivity, or quality.

Does cloud AI spend require a separate AI connector?+

No. If Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, or similar cloud-native AI spend appears in connected cloud billing data, Terrain can show it as cloud-billed AI spend. Direct AI provider connectors add richer usage, token, model, request, and unit-economics detail.

What is on the roadmap vs. shipped today?+

Rows marked Planned are on the near-term roadmap; rows marked By agreement are delivered as part of an Enterprise agreement. Neither is sold as a generally available feature.
Custom retention and compliance controls: available by agreement.
Turning approved follow-ups into accountable work in your team's tracker: Planned.
BI KPI import and connected business systems: coming online tier by tier as we validate the integrations customers most need.

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