Building the unified FinOps and AI Governance platform

Hystax began its journey in 2016, founded by a team of experienced entrepreneurs, practitioners, and engineers. We set out to create a platform that would help businesses choose the right cloud — and make it both affordable and reliable.

With over a decade of cloud expertise, we built OptScale as an open-source FinOps platform. Released on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license, OptScale has grown into a mature, community-backed solution trusted by hundreds of enterprises and a wide community of FinOps practitioners. It gives finance and engineering teams full visibility into cloud spending and the tools to optimize it — across AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, and Kubernetes.

As enterprises moved beyond cloud cost management into the era of generative AI, we recognized a new and equally urgent challenge. AI sprawl was creating the same problems FinOps had solved for the cloud: uncontrolled spending, scattered tools, no governance, and growing compliance gaps.

So we extended OptScale to govern AI the same way it has long governed cloud spending. The product is the same OptScale our customers already know — now with a dedicated AI focus that brings together everything we learned from a decade of cost optimization with a new layer purpose-built for AI: an intelligent gateway, security guardrails, end-to-end analytics, and agent registration and control with 20+ MCP connectors. The expansion into AI makes OptScale more promising and versatile than ever — one platform for both FinOps and AI Governance.