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Cloudability

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78% willing to recommend

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80% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Cloudability and CloudCheckr are major players in the cloud management sector. Cloudability seems to have an advantage in AWS integration due to its depth in detailed cost analysis and reserved instance planning, while CloudCheckr offers better multi-cloud compatibility, making it appealing for varied cloud environments.

Features: Cloudability offers comprehensive metrics for financial management, reserved instance planning, and customized dashboards. Its integration with AWS is robust, with features such as tagging capabilities and rightsizing recommendations. CloudCheckr excels with strong billing capabilities, security insights, and the ability to scale easily across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Room for Improvement: Cloudability users suggest enhancements in user onboarding, API documentation, and long-term forecasting. Discrepancies in billing data and automation needs in data handling are noted areas needing attention. It could also broaden its focus to include more cloud providers. CloudCheckr needs performance improvements with large datasets and better integration with Azure and GCP, while its non-AWS security compliance could be enhanced. Reporting and user guidance in both products could be improved.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both products provide public cloud support, but only CloudCheckr extends to private clouds. Cloudability's support varies, with some users finding it inconsistent and lacking real-time options. CloudCheckr also receives mixed feedback, particularly outside AWS, requiring active customer engagement for effective support and deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Cloudability is perceived as expensive for large-scale users but can provide significant ROI through cost-saving recommendations, with some users claiming a 9x ROI. Its usage-based pricing model may deter smaller operations. In contrast, CloudCheckr is deemed fairly priced, delivering consistent value adaptable to diverse cloud usage structures. While both offer ROI through predictive analytics and reserved instance savings, Cloudability's cost may limit its appeal to smaller clients, whereas CloudCheckr remains reasonably priced across various scales.

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudability

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

3rd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

CloudCheckr

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

10th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (22nd), Managed Cloud Services (4th), AI Observability (76th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Cloudability is 6.7%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudCheckr is 2.9%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cloudability	6.7%
CloudCheckr	2.9%
Other	90.4%

Cloud Cost Management

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reviewer2795433

Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Gained multi-cloud cost visibility and have optimized spend with detailed reports and rightsizing

The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using. IBM, the company that runs Cloudability, released the Groups feature back in the summer of 2025. While Groups can be used in some parts of the tool, it can't be used across the entire tool. I've found that Groups is basically unusable because if it can't be used everywhere, you would have to run both group-based access control and direct user-based access control at the same time, which doesn't make any sense. The Groups feature has improved over time, but it's still not something we feel we can use on an everyday basis, so the IAM section remains an issue right now. Most of the tool is very well-functioning and developed, and that's the only real improvement area that we've seen.

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AbhishekGupta2

Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees

Centralized cloud costs have boosted savings while reporting and user experience still need work

The best features CloudCheckr offers include out-of-the-box security and compliance check features that provide over 35 different types of compliance checks at no cost, best practice checks, and alerts. Another valuable feature is the multi-cloud overview, providing unified reporting across AWS and Azure while allowing us to create different types of dashboards based on who logs into the platform. Additionally, from an MSP standpoint, there is good ease of deployment, especially the billing and chargeback functionality for a reseller or managed services provider. CloudCheckr has positively impacted my organization by helping us manage multiple customers and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility due to its multi-cloud support. We do not have to worry about jumping from one platform to another, and the better MSP support is beneficial from a billing and chargeback automation standpoint. The integration in compliance helps identify missing areas within our customer environments and improves them. On average, it has helped us provide approximately 15 to 20% savings through right-sizing or idle resource elimination. These are some of the immediate cost savings our customers have experienced after implementing recommendations from the tool.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The pricing isn't too expensive."

"All the tagging and mapping, which helps to create some virtual tags are useful features."

"We use the product to get a detailed level of transparency on the cloud strengths."

"Cloudability's customizable alerts help me maintain budgetary goals by providing recommendations and alerts on slot usages."

"Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud."

"Cloudability positively impacts my organization by allowing for greater cost observability, which then drives better spending decisions and reduces costs."

"The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly."

"Each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data."

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"It will automatically suggest areas for optimization."

"CloudCheckr has impacted my organization positively by making things easier and saving time, approximately three hours a week."

"CloudCheckr has enabled an average cost saving of approximately 25% from the last year, and this occurred while also increasing the scale of production."

"I have seen a return on investment of 100%, with significant cost avoidance and measurable savings within the first few months of deployment."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"It's one of the leading players for cloud optimization. It's hard to find anything better."

"The best feature I like about CloudCheckr CMx High Security is its simplicity. I love that it's not rocket science to use the solution. Even if you're not familiar with the cloud, you can easily figure out how to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You can use AWS, you can use Azure, and you can use GCP with the solution because the integration is quite simple. You can also use multi-cloud with it, and you could see the billing part. You'll have complete visibility into your cost which I love about the solution. I also love that data on any security issues and vulnerabilities are available on the go with CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You don't need to do anything different. Just run the scan and you'll have all these open findings in the tool, in terms of the priority level, so if it's critical, it will tell you, "It's critical," and you need to fix it right away."

"The most valuable feature of CloudCheckr CMx High Security is granular reporting. Additionally, the user interface is easy to use."

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Cons

"We would like them to have a linear regression, so we can be predictive for budgets, allocations, and the year's follow ups. We also want to have a longer window of analytics with better certainty that our workload will fit the model, not just in a two week window."

"In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources."

"I wish there was a feature to temporarily remove certain recommendations from the list for teams that couldn't implement them immediately. I believe Cloudability could improve its automation functionality and enhance cost allocation modeling."

"I would improve the integration, or the preparation of the integration, for a complex environment."

"Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers."

"Cloudability needs to improve on data collection from cloud sources."

"My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was adequate, but it could be made better."

"They can improve the custom range of the network."

More Cloudability cons

"Self-healing could be a bit smoother and a bit cleaner, easier to access and more functional. That would help."

"The performance of the tool really needs to be improved."

"The solution must improve its user interface."

"Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI."

"CloudCheckr CMx High Security is complex. There are a lot of menus, and if you do not know what you are looking for you can get lost. However, the interface is self-explanatory. It's easy to understand where to go to get what you want."

"The solution needs to work better with larger capacities of data."

"I was not satisfied with the customer support from CloudCheckr."

"Many features still need to be implemented in this tool."

More CloudCheckr cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year."

"The price of the license or the usage is a percentage of the top consumption. So it varies from year to year."

"We have seen ROI with the reserved instances, and having the ability to predict what reserved instances you can get. We can save tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases."

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."

"A license is needed to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security, but because we are a managed service provider, the price of the license would vary. It depends on the type of cloud users we have, for example, it would be some type of percentage or monthly billing, etc."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"The cost is on par with other providers."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Energy/Utilities Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cloudability?

The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Clouda...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?

Pricing and setup cost for Cloudability are good. Compared to the rest of the industry, they may be a little more expensive than some other FinOps tools, but that's to be expected because they have...

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What needs improvement with Cloudability?

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What do you like most about CloudCheckr ?

The recommendation section is pretty helpful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?

The pricing and licensing are quite convenient. I am not certain about the exact costs involved because another team handles that aspect. Overall, the pricing was quite convenient and represented g...

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What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?

Some aspects could be made more customizable, such as the dashboard and UI. Some features may be too advanced and may have a learning curve, potentially lacking customization. Overall, CloudCheckr ...

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CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP

Overview

Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

Apptio

CloudCheckr CMx High Security is a cloud management platform that provides complete visibility into cost and security issues. The primary use cases are day-to-day operations, cloud management, identifying open vulnerabilities and issues from a security perspective, and cost management and optimization.

The solution is praised for its stability, simplicity, ease of use, scalability, excellent technical support, and granular reporting. CloudCheckr CMx High Security provides priority-level data on security issues and vulnerabilities, making it easy to identify critical issues that need immediate attention.

Spot - A Flexera company

Sample Customers

Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara

Accenture, Logitech, Ingram, Cloudar, Infor, DXC, Cornell University, DLT, Lumen, Lightstream, Choice Hotels, B-Tech, SmileShark, PTP, Explicity, JCH Technology, Siemens Mobility

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