WALT Labs launches Cloud Companion on Google Cloud Marketplace, giving cloud teams a unified platform for FinOps, CloudOps, security, and AI spend management while simplifying procurement through existing Google Cloud billing accounts.
THE WOODLANDS, Texas, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- WALT Labs, a Google Cloud Premier Partner, today announced that Cloud Companion, its cloud operations platform for FinOps, CloudOps and security, is now available on Google Cloud Marketplace. Customers can purchase Cloud Companion through their existing Google Cloud billing account, with Google Cloud Marketplace as seller of record.
Cloud teams are increasingly accountable for controlling spend while meeting security requirements and absorbing a growing volume of AI workloads. For many teams, the tooling for that work remains spread across billing consoles, spreadsheets, and separate security products, leaving cost and risk owned by different people working from different data.
Cloud Companion brings spend analytics, BigQuery cost tracking, budget alerts, security scanning and an AI assistant into a single dashboard, so teams can see and act on their cloud in one place.
Cloud Companion provides:
- Unified spend analytics across billing accounts, projects and services, with a projected month-end total based on current run rate
- BigQuery cost analysis by project, user, label and individual query, refreshed hourly, with optimization recommendations from Google Cloud Recommender for partitioning, clustering, materialized views and slot commitments
- Budget alerts on billing accounts, projects and SKUs, and hourly alerts on BigQuery, Vertex AI and Gemini spend
- AI spend controls, including statistical spike detection on AI spend and a spend cap that switches off Vertex AI and Gemini APIs in chosen projects when spend reaches a customer-defined limit
- Automated security scanning of Google Cloud configuration, with more than 120 checks, 75 of them mapped to the CIS Google Cloud Platform Foundations Benchmark, each finding carrying a severity level and the resources it affects
- Security Center, included with the Advanced plan, adding threat detection across Google Cloud audit logs and severity-ranked security alerts by email, Slack, or webhook
- Walter, an AI assistant that answers plain-English questions about spend, savings recommendations, BigQuery and AI costs, budgets and security alerts, with Model Context Protocol support
- AWS spend alongside Google Cloud in one unified view
Buying through Google Cloud Marketplace lets organizations procure Cloud Companion using the billing relationship, procurement process, and payment terms they already have, instead of adding a separate purchasing path. Eligible Marketplace purchases may also count toward a customer's existing Google Cloud commitments.
Cloud Companion is priced as a flat monthly fee per account rather than a percentage of cloud spend. The Pro plan is $750 per month, and the Advanced plan is $1,500 per month, both month-to-month with 30 days' notice to cancel. Accounts above $100,000 in monthly spend receive custom Enterprise pricing through a private offer.
"Most of the teams we work with do not have a visibility problem in one place. They have it in four. Cost sits in the billing console, risk sits in a security tool, and AI spend can surface after the fact," said Sean Sherrard, Director of Commercial Operations at WALT Labs. "Making Cloud Companion available on Google Cloud Marketplace gives teams a simpler way to bring those areas together through a procurement path they already use."
WALT Labs listed Cloud Companion on Google Cloud Marketplace with Tackle, the cloud go-to-market platform software companies use to sell through hyperscaler marketplaces.
"When I talk with teams buying software on Google Cloud, one of the first questions is whether they can purchase through Marketplace. Having that option ready shortens the path to a signed deal, and for partner-led platforms it keeps the purchase inside a relationship the customer already trusts. We're proud to have helped WALT Labs get Cloud Companion listed and transactable on Google Cloud Marketplace." Soren Supplies, Account Executive at Tackle.
Cloud Companion is available globally through Google Cloud Marketplace, with customer data processed in WALT Labs' United States or Europe regions. WALT Labs will continue to expand the platform across cost, security, and operations for teams running on Google Cloud.
For more information about Cloud Companion, visit www.waltlabs.io/cloud-companion. To purchase through Google Cloud Marketplace, visit console.cloud.google.com/cloud-companion.
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