PRICING
How pricing works.
Fidelis charges a flat monthly retainer, banded by how much you spend on Azure. Not a percentage of your savings, and not a percentage of your bill. Most engagements start with a paid two-week assessment, credited toward your first months if you continue.
A flat monthly retainer
You pay the same amount every month, set by the band your Azure spend falls into. The retainer covers the whole loop: continuous scanning, prioritized findings, a named owner and status on every work item, approval-gated remediation, the realized-savings ledger, and your FinOps Score trending month over month.
A flat fee means the invoice is predictable and the incentives are clean. We are not paid more when your bill grows, and we are not paid more when a fix is big.
Why not a percentage of your savings
It is the most common model in cloud cost, and we do not use it. A percentage of savings puts you and us in a monthly argument about attribution, it makes the invoice unpredictable, and it quietly pushes a provider toward the flashy one-time cut instead of the boring habit that keeps the bill down.
It also shrinks as the work succeeds, which is a strange thing to build a long relationship on. We would rather be paid to keep waste from coming back.
Why not a percentage of your bill
Charging a percentage of Azure spend means we earn more when your bill goes up. That is the opposite of the job. Our whole promise is that every number is netted against your real bill, so the number is the number. The fee should not move in the wrong direction.
What changes the number
The band your monthly Azure spend falls into.
How many subscriptions and teams are in scope, because approvals and ownership are per team.
Whether you want us to drive remediation end to end, or only to find, prioritize, and verify while your team executes.
Start with the two-week assessment
Most engagements open with a paid, read-only assessment that runs about two weeks. It uses an Azure Lighthouse delegation you can revoke, or you can run the scan yourself in your own Cloud Shell if you prefer we hold no access at all.
You get the ranked findings, the net dollar impact of each one, and your three next best actions. One mid-market Azure tenant, one two-week read-only assessment, net result: $20K a month of waste. Oversized VMs, orphaned disks, storage nobody claimed.
If you continue into the monthly service, the assessment fee is credited toward your first months. If you do not, you keep the findings and owe nothing further.
How to get your number
Bring your current monthly Azure spend to the 20-minute call and we can size it on the call. Before that, the free FinOps Score gives you a read on where you stand without any tenant access at all.
See where your Azure money is leaking.
Start with the free Score: ten questions, no tenant access. Or go straight to the 20-minute call.