Getting started
If you run Snowflake, you can use Cost Catch. It installs from the Snowflake Marketplace and runs entirely inside your own account — there's no separate service to run, nothing to host, and your data never leaves your walls.
Three steps to your first data
- Install from the Snowflake Marketplace. No sales call needed. On install, Snowflake shows a consent screen listing exactly what the app can do in your account. Your admin grants it, and can revoke it any time.
- Open the app and pick a source. The built-in setup wizard lists every vendor you can connect. Choose one to begin.
- Connect your vendor. The wizard walks you through it end to end and generates the Snowflake SQL you need, pre-filled for your account.
From there, Cost Catch refreshes on a schedule you control and lands each vendor's billing and usage as clean, queryable tables in your account.
Who needs to be involved
Plan on two kinds of access. In Snowflake, someone who can grant account privileges (for example, an ACCOUNTADMIN) approves the app and runs the short SQL the wizard generates for each connection. On the vendor side, someone with admin access sets up the billing export or creates the API key Cost Catch reads with. Each connector page says exactly what that vendor needs. Having both people available for the first connection makes it quick; later connections follow the same steps.
What to expect after you connect
- Automatic, continuous refresh. Each connection runs on a cadence you choose (the app suggests a good default per vendor).
- Data lands as tables. Query it directly, or point your BI or AI tools at it — it lives in your warehouse alongside everything else.
- Recent figures stay current. Vendors revise recent charges as they finalize them, and Cost Catch keeps re-reading until they stop changing. For AI vendors, every figure is marked final or still settling. See Using your data.
- First data timing varies by vendor. File-based clouds can take a day or two to deliver their first export; API vendors show data within minutes. Each connector page tells you what to expect.
Next: connect a vendor
Pick the vendor you want to start with. Each page covers which option to choose, the refresh cadence to use, and what the first run looks like.