# l4 costs > View cloud cost summaries, breakdowns, daily and monthly aggregations, and the filter dimensions you can drill into. Source: https://docs.levelfour.ai/cli/commands/costs `l4 costs` reads cloud spend from the terminal. ## Subcommands | Command | Purpose | | ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | [`summary`](#summary) | KPI overview: monthly spend, forecast, total potential savings | | [`breakdown`](#breakdown) | Per-service breakdown with filters, multi-dimensional grouping, pagination | | [`daily`](#daily) | Daily costs aggregated per day for a date range | | [`monthly`](#monthly) | Monthly costs aggregated per month | | [`filters`](#filters) | Distinct values for every filter dimension | ## summary ```bash l4 costs summary [--provider ] ``` Prints the top-line KPIs: monthly spend, forecast and total potential savings. Pass `--provider` to scope to one cloud (`aws`, `gcp`, `azure`, `k8s`). ```bash l4 costs summary l4 costs summary --provider aws l4 costs summary --json ``` ## breakdown ```bash l4 costs breakdown [flags] ``` `--tui` opens the same rows in an interactive split-pane viewer, where you drill into a row and pivot grouping live. [Filtering and sorting](/guides/filtering-and-sorting#interactive-tui) lists its keys and shows how flags passed on the command line seed its starting state. ### Flags | Flag | Description | | ----------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | `--provider ` | `aws`, `gcp`, `azure`, `k8s` (auto-detected if omitted) | | `--start ` / `--end ` | Date range, ISO 8601 | | `--preset ` | `30D`, `6M`, `12M` (overrides `--start`/`--end`) | | `--granularity ` | `daily` or `monthly` | | `--group-by ` | Repeatable: `service`, `account_id`, `region`, `tag`, `virtual_tag` | | `--service ` | Repeatable filter | | `--region ` | Repeatable filter | | `--account ` | Repeatable filter | | `--environment ` | Repeatable filter | | `--tag-key ` / `--tag-value ` | Required when `--group-by` includes `tag` | | `--virtual-tag-key ` | A virtual tag's name or id. Reports the spend its rules assigned rather than the raw bill. Required when `--group-by` includes `virtual_tag`, and one key per call | | `--virtual-tag-value ` | Repeatable. Keeps only these values of `--virtual-tag-key`, so `--group-by` then splits those alone. `__unallocated__` keeps the spend no rule assigned | | `--page` / `--page-size` | Pagination (max 100 per page) | | `--sort-by ` | `cost`, `previous_cost`, `change_percentage`, `service`, `region`, `account_id` | | `--sort-by-date ` | Sort by a specific date column (overrides `--sort-by`) | | `--sort-order` | `asc` or `desc` | | `--format` | `table`, `csv`, `raw` (default `table`) | | `--tui` | Open the interactive split-pane viewer | > **Note** > > `--page` and `--page-size` apply to `--format table`. `--format csv` and `--format raw` return the whole filtered set in one response. ### Examples ```bash l4 costs breakdown l4 costs breakdown --preset 30D l4 costs breakdown --start 2026-01-01 --end 2026-01-31 l4 costs breakdown --group-by service --group-by region l4 costs breakdown --service EC2 --service RDS l4 costs breakdown --group-by tag --tag-key Environment --tag-value production l4 costs breakdown --group-by virtual_tag --virtual-tag-key Teams l4 costs breakdown --group-by service --virtual-tag-key Teams --virtual-tag-value data l4 costs breakdown --granularity monthly --preset 6M l4 costs breakdown --sort-by-date 2026-01-15 --sort-order desc l4 costs breakdown --format csv > costs.csv ``` > **Note** > > Filter options cross-constrain each other, matching AWS Cost Explorer behavior: selecting a service narrows the regions and accounts you can subsequently filter on. [`l4 costs filters`](#filters) prints the current option list at any point. ## daily ```bash l4 costs daily [--start ] [--end ] [--provider ] ``` Without `--start` and `--end`, the range is the trailing 30 days. ```bash l4 costs daily l4 costs daily --start 2026-01-01 --end 2026-01-31 l4 costs daily --json | jq '.data.data_points[]' ``` ## monthly ```bash l4 costs monthly [--provider ] ``` One row per month, covering all available history. ```bash l4 costs monthly l4 costs monthly --json | jq '.data.data_points[]' ``` ## filters ```bash l4 costs filters [dimension] [--start ] [--end ] [--provider ] ``` The dimensions are services, regions, accounts, tag keys and tag values. Without an argument, `filters` prints every one. Pass a dimension name to print just that one. ```bash l4 costs filters l4 costs filters service l4 costs filters region --start 2026-01-01 --end 2026-01-31 l4 costs filters --json | jq '.data.services[]' ``` ## Related * [Filtering and sorting](/guides/filtering-and-sorting): these flags in use, the TUI keys, `--jq` pipelines, and the SDK equivalents * [Output formats](/cli/output-formats): the global `--json`, `--jq`, `--template` and `--quiet` flags * [`l4 integrations`](/cli/commands/integrations): which `--provider` values your organization actually has * [Recipes](/cli/recipes): multi-step shell pipelines, mostly over `l4 recommendations` * [`/api-reference/costs`](/api-reference/costs): the underlying REST endpoints