azure-cost-health-check vs Cost Guard MCP
azure-cost-health-check is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by microsoft. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot). Cost Guard MCP is an MCP server published by mcpsmiths. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-15. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  azure-cost-health-check |  Cost Guard MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Copilot CLI: github/awesome-copilot | Listed Version: 0.4.5 Forks (GitHub): 2 Stars (GitHub): 2 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.3.2 Downloads/month (PyPI): 777 Downloads/week (PyPI): 165 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 1 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | azure-cost-health-check | Cost Guard MCP |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 2 (better) | 1 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 2 (better) | 0 (worse) |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (cost-guard-mcp) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 12, secrets among them: 6 |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/microsoft/azure-dev-tools | github.com/mcpsmiths/cost-guard-mcp |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen | 2026-10-11 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
azure-cost-health-check
Read-only Azure cost, forecasts, budget alerts, Advisor recommendations, and AI billing analysis in a Copilot canvas.
Cost Guard MCP
Pre-flight query cost and result-size guardrails for AI agents on BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks
How to run each
azure-cost-health-check
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
Cost Guard MCP As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --env "DATABRICKS_CLIENT_SECRET=<YOUR_DATABRICKS_CLIENT_SECRET>" --env "DATABRICKS_TOKEN=<YOUR_DATABRICKS_TOKEN>" --env "GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=<YOUR_GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS>" --env "SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD=<YOUR_SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD>" --env "SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSPHRASE=<YOUR_SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSPHRASE>" --env "SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH=<YOUR_SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH>" --transport stdio cost-guard-mcp -- uvx cost-guard-mcpRequires: DATABRICKS_CLIENT_SECRET (secret), DATABRICKS_TOKEN (secret), GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS (secret), SNOWFLAKE_PASSWORD (secret), SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSPHRASE (secret), SNOWFLAKE_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH (secret)
Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of azure-cost-health-check publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: azure-cost-health-check · What it can do: Cost Guard MCP · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/HEAD/.github/plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.