No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

Apptio Cloudability vs Apptio One comparison

Why PeerSpot?
 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 16, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Apptio Cloudability
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
1st
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Apptio One
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
4.9
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
IT Financial Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Apptio Cloudability is 6.0%, down from 12.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Apptio One is 2.8%, down from 7.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Apptio Cloudability6.0%
Apptio One2.8%
Other91.2%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

KW
Cloud Platform Engineer at Treasury Wine Estates
Finops platform has uncovered waste, supports right-sizing, and improves contract negotiations
I think Apptio Cloudability is a really very good platform for costing. I do understand it can be cost-prohibitive to buy the license to use Apptio Cloudability because of the way it charges. If you are not a big enough company, I can understand that. Apptio Cloudability might want to look at costing models for smaller businesses that cannot afford Apptio Cloudability or Apptio Cloudability Premium. I believe Premium is about one hundred thousand dollars or so in US dollars, and Apptio Cloudability I believe is a little bit less than that. However, there are small businesses out there that will not be able to afford either option. I wonder if that is a market to target, to look at a smaller model of Apptio Cloudability or at least a smaller costing model that could help those businesses as well. The other thing is that there are just a few anomalies inside Apptio Cloudability that I think can definitely be improved. It seems a really small thing, but when you are using it, it can actually be quite a big thing. Since Turbonomic has been integrated with Apptio Cloudability, as good as that is to be able to get those different costing figures and larger savings, it does not give the ability to have an instant Jira ticket integration with the Turbonomic costings or the advanced costing, if you would call it, inside Apptio Cloudability Premium. In the basic costings, you can use Jira and you can open up a Jira ticket and you can have all this information straight from Apptio Cloudability straight in the Jira ticket, assign it to someone, and then someone is working on it. You cannot do that in Turbonomic at the moment. I am not really sure why. Obviously, there is some sort of development issue behind the scenes, I imagine, with the way that Turbonomic works compared to the basic costing. It would be a huge advantage to be able to do that, to just open a Jira ticket, have someone assigned to it, and then proceed forward. I definitely think they should look at that.
Jerry J - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at IBM
Cost transparency has improved and finance and IT now share detailed TCO insights
I am mostly concerned about the development side. The development side is very user-friendly, so I would not say there are major factors that the product needs improvement in. However, sometimes with the number of users using the system, there might be a lag in system performance. There might be some slowness for the report to load. If a more significant number of users are consolidating on a single report and that single report has not been promoted to production yet, there is a possibility that it could take some time to load. That is the only challenge I have experienced as a developer.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Apptio Cloudability is a fantastic tool to help FinOps teams and engineering teams focus on cost reduction, cost savings, measuring, displaying, and telling the story about their numbers."
"Apptio Cloudability has positively impacted my organization primarily through cloud cost optimization, where I can have visibility across teams, see those costs, audit them, and remove unnecessary resources."
"The pricing isn't too expensive."
"Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud."
"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 Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management."
"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."
"Cloudability positively impacts my organization by allowing for greater cost observability, which then drives better spending decisions and reduces costs."
"All the tagging and mapping, which helps to create some virtual tags are useful features."
"In short, it helps finance, business, and IT people speak in a common language."
"The TBM model and the out-of-the-box reporting are the most valuable features of Apptio One."
"Its most significant value lies in its ease of use which extends to both configuration and the subsequent deployment of additional components."
 

Cons

"I would improve the integration, or the preparation of the integration, for a complex environment."
"I do understand it can be cost-prohibitive to buy the license to use Apptio Cloudability because of the way it charges."
"There are also some limitations with the dashboards and data representation in Cloudability."
"The technical support is terrible. You can't pick up the phone and talk to somebody."
"The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using."
"Right now, what we're doing is we are manually putting the data in it, which is something which we don't like about Cloudability."
"Right now, I don't think that they do good predictions at all."
"We have dealt with a few technical support people where we ask for one thing and they might not deliver straightaway. It seems like they are a stretched across multiple customers."
"However, sometimes with the number of users using the system, there might be a lag in system performance."
"The solution's reporting layer, advanced conditional formatting, and reporting features could be improved."
"Encouraging or providing more out-of-the-box solutions that cater to a wider audience could enhance the overall effectiveness of the application."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."
"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."
"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."
"Cloudability is a bit expensive."
"Apptio One is an expensive solution."
"It comes with a considerable cost."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Cloud Cost Management solutions are best for your needs.
916,956 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise18
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was limited because it was done centrally by procurement.
What needs improvement with Cloudability?
Sometimes, I find the user interface of Apptio Cloudability a little complicated, as it has extra data and options that become difficult for visibility, but overall, it is good to have.
What is your primary use case for Cloudability?
My main use case for Apptio Cloudability is cost optimization, governance, and cost visibility across different clouds. A specific example of how I use Apptio Cloudability for cost optimization and...
What needs improvement with Apptio One?
I am mostly concerned about the development side. The development side is very user-friendly, so I would not say there are major factors that the product needs improvement in. However, sometimes wi...
What is your primary use case for Apptio One?
With Apptio One, we provide IT cost transparency to the end users. We source different data from various sources and maintain them in backend tables. We then perform transformations to align the da...
What advice do you have for others considering Apptio One?
We have different metrics created, and when taking a cost model, it primarily follows TBM Taxonomy, which is based upon the ATUM structure. TBM Taxonomy has several layers. For example, how the cos...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara
Nationwide Building Society, State of Washington, Nationwide Building Society, DIRECTV, CME Group, Swiss Re, Cox Automotive
Find out what your peers are saying about Apptio Cloudability vs. Apptio One and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
916,956 professionals have used our research since 2012.