In 2025, cloud spend isn’t just climbing; it’s hurting. Global public-cloud end-user spending is forecast to reach $723 billion this year, a substantial increase from the previous year. At the same time, the broader market for FinOps tools is estimated to be roughly $14.9 billion this year and is expected to more than double over the coming decade.
Together, these figures reflect an industry at a tipping point: cloud is now mission-critical, costs are opaque, and traditional finance tools simply aren’t cutting it. Enter PointFive, voted by tech reporters as the Best FinOps Platform of 2025, and rapidly emerging as the engineering-driven answer to cloud chaos.
The Cloud-Cost Problem Engineers and Finance Teams Share
Cloud architectures have become vast, fragmented, and complex. A recent data analysis site estimates that only 39% of organizations track unified spend across all cloud platforms, despite more than two-thirds now operating in multi-cloud environments. Meanwhile, mature FinOps adopters report savings of 25-35% annually when cost governance is embedded into engineering workflows.
Yet many organizations are still reactive, discovering cost surprises only after the fact, scrambling to tag resources or manage idle compute rather than proactively architecting for efficiency.
What has shifted in 2025 is not simply the size of the problem, but its nature: engineering teams, DevOps, product owners, and finance must now share a common reality. The question has changed from “How much are we spending?” to “How efficiently are we consuming cloud resources?” That subtle shift is critical. And it’s precisely the gap that PointFive addresses.
How PointFive Rewrites the FinOps Playbook
Instead of treating FinOps purely as a financial discipline or a dashboard exercise, PointFive treats it as an engineering-first operation, one in which cost, architecture, and workflow converge. Several features stand out:
- Comprehensive multi-cloud data ingestion: PointFive pulls usage, billing, and telemetry data across major cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) as well as container-orchestrated environments. This breadth ensures both engineering and finance teams operate on a single source of truth, rather than working from separate reports, because unified visibility is the precursor to clarity.
- Workflow-embedded remediation: Where many FinOps platforms stop at “alerting”, PointFive pushes into “assigning”. Idle resources, oversized clusters, or mis-tagged workloads become tickets in engineering systems (such as Jira, ServiceNow, or Slack) with a contextual business impact attached. That means engineering teams don’t just see waste; they act on it. Early adopter feedback points to savings opportunities in the 20-30% range once the system is live and embedded.
- Fast deployment and value realisation: In cloud cost control, timing is everything. PointFive’s agent-less connectors and pre-built cloud architectures minimize friction and ramp-up time, helping organisations go from chaos to clarity in weeks rather than quarters. In a landscape where budgets are exceeding forecasts by double digits, speed is an advantage.
Because of this operational alignment of engineering workflows + finance accountability + multi-cloud breadth, PointFive is recognized as the “Best FinOps Platform of 2025”. That recognition signals more than popularity; it reflects relevance at the evolving edge of FinOps.
PointFive is Engineering Clarity, and The Market is Watching
At a time when cloud consumption is sprawling, FinOps maturity remains rare (only about a quarter of companies describe themselves as “advanced” in FinOps). Platforms that bridge the divide between finance and engineering will emerge as dominant. PointFive’s recognition as the best FinOps platform of 2025 is a benchmark for the next generation of cost-governance tools.
Cloud chaos is growing. However, moments of clarity are emerging in engineering. For organisations ready to treat cloud spend like an operational discipline rather than a spreadsheet exercise, the time to act is now.
