FinOpsWay: Track Databricks costs in the interface

FinOpsWay is a free FinOps browser extension for Databricks. Track Databricks costs directly in your workspace, alongside your jobs, clusters, and pipelines.

Costs are not real time. Databricks publishes billing data with a delay of at least a few hours.

A Databricks workspace home page. In the top navigation, a chip reads: $114, Sep 8 - Oct 8, to 07:00 UTC, 4 h ago, beside 24 h, 7 d, 30 d, MTD and QTD buttons. Open below it, a panel with a three-month bar chart and the selected period marked on it, a table of cost by product against the previous period, and a note that the period ends at 07:00 UTC because billing has not reported the four hours since.

Widget on every page Cost display within your workspace
Aggregate by period Data coverage: 24 h, 7 d, months, custom
Diagram Visual graph for the selected period
Division into SKUs Detailed SKU information

Download the FinOps extension for Databricks

FinOpsWay is available in the Chrome Web Store and on Firefox Add-ons. It is free and does not need an account.
Read the setup guide for creating and configuring a cluster.

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Available for Mozilla Firefox Get the extension

Edge users install from the Chrome Web Store. After installing, open the extension's options page, choose your workspace and paste a personal access token. Browser session mode is available for testing, but use it at your own risk: it is not recommended for production. Open any Databricks page and the cost chip will appear in the top navigation. Questions? Email us.

Databricks cost monitoring features

FinOpsWay places cost context next to the Databricks resources you use every day.
Explore All costs features.

01 Clusters

Databricks Cluster Costs

Keep cost context close while you browse the clusters in your workspace.

FinOpsWay cost totals and hourly estimates on the Databricks SQL warehouses page.

02 Jobs and pipelines

Databricks Job and Pipeline Costs

See cost information alongside your jobs and pipelines, without leaving Databricks.

FinOpsWay cost information on the Databricks jobs and pipelines page.

03 Job runs

Databricks Job Run Costs

Bring cost into the picture when you review a job run, right where you already work.

FinOpsWay cost information on the Databricks job runs page.

04 SQL warehouse setup

Databricks SQL Warehouse Costs

Compare hourly cost estimates beside SQL warehouse sizes before choosing compute.

FinOpsWay hourly cost estimates in the SQL warehouse size selector.

05 Notebooks

Databricks Notebook Costs

See cost badges beside notebook names and review the compute behind your analysis.

FinOpsWay cost badges beside notebook names in the workspace list.

06 Databricks Apps

Databricks Apps Costs

Bring cost context to Databricks Apps, without leaving the place you manage them.

FinOpsWay cost information on the Databricks Apps page.

07 Lakebase

Databricks Lakebase Costs

See the cost of a Lakebase database, not only as a whole but also for each individual branch.

FinOpsWay cost information for a Lakebase database and its branches.

08 Lakebase settings

Lakebase Costs in Database Settings

Review Lakebase cost information directly alongside the database settings you manage.

FinOpsWay cost information on the Databricks Lakebase settings page.

09 Genie Agents

Databricks Genie Agent Costs

See DBU usage alongside the Genie Agents you build and manage in Databricks. Genie Agents usage by users is free through January 31, 2027; service principal usage is billed.

FinOpsWay cost information on the Databricks Genie Agents page.

Why FinOpsWay

Databricks shows admins where the money went. FinOpsWay shows engineers what it costs while they decide.

Databricks Governance Hub (Beta) gives account and workspace admins one place to review spend by product, workspace and tag. That answers the question after the bill. But the cluster was sized, the job was scheduled and the query shipped by people who never opened that page.

FinOpsWay takes the same billing data to them, on the page where they are already working.

Databricks Governance Hub Cost page showing spend metrics, a spend trend, top spending groups, tagged spend, budgets, and cost recommendations. — Governance Hub

Where did the money go?

One view for admins. Read the Databricks docs

FinOpsWay cost information displayed inside a Databricks workspace. — FinOpsWay

What does this cost?

On every page. See every page it covers

Built by Databricks community experts

Ilya Aniskovets

Databricks Solutions Architect Champion

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Maksim Pachkouski

Databricks MVP & Databricks Solutions Architect Champion

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Your Databricks data stays in your workspace

The extension has no backend and no telemetry. The only network requests it makes are the queries themselves, sent to the Databricks workspace you are signed in to. We run no server, receive no data and cannot see what you query.

The data the extension reads is used only to display your Databricks spend. None of it is sold, shared with third parties or used for advertising. Cloud machine prices are bundled with the extension, so estimating cluster cost does not contact any cloud provider either. Read the full privacy policy.

Where FinOpsWay runs: clouds, browsers, credentials

Clouds: Databricks on AWS (*.cloud.databricks.com) and Azure (*.azuredatabricks.net). The extension works the same way on both.
Browsers: Chrome, Edge and Firefox, as a Manifest V3 extension. Available in the Chrome Web Store (Chrome and Edge) and on Firefox Add-ons.
Credential: A workspace personal access token, pasted into the extension's options page. It is only ever sent to that workspace.
Data delay: Costs come from Databricks billing data, which Databricks publishes at least a few hours after the usage. The widget shows where the reported data ends and how old it is, and the latest hours fill in as Databricks catches up.