# Cost Dashboard

> Source: https://parallelworks.com/docs/organization-admin/billing/cost

# Cost Dashboard

The Cost Dashboard provides an interactive view of your organization's cloud spending. Use it to monitor costs across groups, time periods, and cloud providers.

## Navigation

From the **Organizations** list, select your organization. In the sidebar, under **Billing**, click **Cost**.

## Filters

The dashboard includes the following filter controls at the top of the page:

- **Time Period** — Select the time range for cost data (e.g., "Month to Date", "Last 30 Days", "Last 90 Days", etc.).
- **Group** — Filter cost data by a specific group within the organization, or view all groups.
- **Realtime** — Toggle between realtime (estimated) data and true cost data from your cloud service providers. Realtime data is available immediately but may differ slightly from final CSP billing. True cost data may be delayed by up to 24-48 hours depending on the provider.

## Dashboard Modules

The dashboard displays cost data through visualization modules showing spending breakdowns by group, time period, and cloud provider.

## Understanding Cost Data

- **Realtime data** is estimated based on active compute usage and is available immediately. It provides a close approximation of actual costs but may not account for all billing adjustments from your CSP.
- **True cost data** is imported from your cloud service provider's billing exports and represents the actual billed amounts. This data is typically delayed by 24-48 hours.

:::info Note

The Cost Dashboard requires that billing infrastructure has been configured for at least one cloud account. See [Cloud Account Billing](/docs/organization-admin/cloud/cloud-accounts/billing) for setup instructions.

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