pricing
No savings.
No invoice.
One number. One promise. You pay 40% of the first year's savings — one time. If we don't find anything, the whole engagement is free. No retainer, no hourly rate, no kill fee.
the plan
Shared savings.
Nothing else.
of your first-year annualized savings
$0 upfront. Ever.
One-time fee, not a recurring retainer
Invoiced from realized savings only
No savings found? No invoice.
You keep 60% of year 1. All of year 2+.
$10k+ monthly AWS spend
Savings calculator
Monthly savings
25% average reduction
$12,500
Annualized savings
Monthly × 12
$150,000
Koali fee
40% of annualized savings (one-time)
−$60,000
Your net savings, year 1
Annualized savings − Koali fee
$90,000
Your net savings, year 2
No Koali fee — you keep everything
$150,000
Two-year savings
After a single Koali fee
$240,000
Estimate based on Koali's 25% average reduction across prior engagements. Your actual savings may be higher or lower. If they're zero, so is your invoice.
how the pricing works
A worked example.
The calculator shows the outcome. Here's the math it's running, step by step, so there are no surprises later.
01
Starting spend
$50,000
Example monthly AWS bill
02
Annualized savings
$150,000
25% × $50k × 12 months
03
Koali fee
$60,000
40% of annualized savings
04
Your year 1 net
$90,000
$150k − $60k = you keep 60%
And then year 2: the fee is one-time, so everything you saved keeps compounding into the next year. In this example, you'd pocket another $150,000 with Koali no longer in the picture — $240,000 net across two years on a $50k/month starting spend.
why it's built this way
Incentives locked to outcomes.
Every traditional pricing model has a misalignment somewhere. Ours is designed to remove those — you only pay from savings that have already landed in your bill.
Guaranteed
If we don't save you money, we don't invoice. Not reduced — nothing.
Aligned
We only earn when you save. Every hour we spend is pointed at your bill.
Fair
You keep the majority — 60% of year 1, and 100% of every year after.
Transparent
Invoices are tied to Cost Explorer data. You can verify every dollar.
pricing questions
Before you ask.
What if you don't find any savings?
Then you don't get an invoice. Not a reduced one. Not a consulting fee for the audit. Zero. That's what the guarantee means.
Is the 40% fee a one-time charge or recurring?
One-time. It's 40% of the first year's annualized savings, invoiced as savings land. Year 2 and beyond, you keep everything with no further fees from us.
When do you actually invoice?
As savings land in your bill — not based on projections. We track realized savings against your Cost Explorer baseline and invoice from the delta.
What if savings reverse after you're done?
If something we changed gets rolled back or drifts within the engagement period, we don't invoice for savings that didn't materialize. The metric is always what actually hit your bill.
Do you have a minimum?
Yes — $10,000/month in AWS spend. Below that, the shared-savings math doesn't work well for either of us.
What about usage growth or price changes?
We baseline against your pre-engagement Cost Explorer data and adjust for organic usage growth. You don't pay us for savings that came from something unrelated to our work.
risk-free start
See the number for your account.
The calculator shows the average. The audit shows exactly what's hiding in your specific bill. One is free and takes a week.
No credit card · No retainer · No risk