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Apptio Cloudability vs CloudCheckr comparison

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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:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
6.2
Apptio Cloudability enabled organizations to achieve substantial savings and ROI by optimizing cloud costs and facilitating contract renewals.
Sentiment score
6.6
CloudCheckr CMx High Security users report significant ROI through reduced manual efforts, optimized spending, and automated invoicing.
It'd be very easy to save at least 10 to 20% costs from cloud spend just by utilizing the features of right-sizing or commitments management that Cloudability offers.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The numbers have become the trusted source and are used in vendor negotiations and forecasting discussions at the board level.
Global Finops Cloud Optimisation For Hsbc Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Apptio Cloudability helped us save a million dollars up until the contract renewal.
Platform Engineer at Treasury Wine Estates
It has reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent checking where spending is occurring and ensuring all teams use resources correctly.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
I have seen a return on investment of 100%, with significant cost avoidance and measurable savings within the first few months of deployment.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
I've seen a return on investment, as the savings are concrete, measurable, and they show up directly in the AWS bill.
Top Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.2
Apptio Cloudability's customer service excels in setup with personal consultations, though support response times and availability could improve.
Sentiment score
6.2
CloudCheckr's customer service is praised for responsiveness, but some encounter delays requiring account rep involvement for resolution.
It was always a matter of going out of the way to help us make sure that we had everything set up as we needed so that we could use the product as fast as we could and in the best way that we could.
Platform Engineer at Treasury Wine Estates
The customer support from Cloudability is great.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The customer support is probably a six to seven; it has been quite slow, and getting resolution can be quite slow.
Global Finops Cloud Optimisation For Hsbc Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The additional support ended up taking longer than expected, with responses that did not meet our need for detailed and technical assistance.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Sometimes support needs to be reached, but they are very responsive and supportive.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
The customer support for CloudCheckr is fantastic.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Apptio Cloudability scales well for multiple users but has minor limitations in features and detailed reporting.
Sentiment score
8.1
CloudCheckr is praised for scalability and efficiency in managing diverse cloud environments despite concerns about handling large data volumes.
Cloudability's scalability is excellent because it can link with as few as one cloud account to thousands of cloud accounts, so there are no issues there.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I have not experienced any scalability issues.
Platform Engineer at Treasury Wine Estates
Regarding Apptio Cloudability's scalability, on a scale of one to 10, I would rate it probably a seven to eight.
Global Finops Cloud Optimisation For Hsbc Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
If tomorrow I were to contract AWS or Google Cloud Services, I could manage them from the same place.
IT Director at Instituto de Innovacion Empresarial
It scales well for MSPs and large enterprises, allowing for management of hundreds of accounts and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Apptio Cloudability is stable, highly rated, and excels in cost management and analytics for single or multi-cloud environments.
Sentiment score
8.2
CloudCheckr is a stable, reliable cloud optimization tool with high ratings, though minor issues and slow queries are noted.
The communication around those outage issues has been quite poor.
Global Finops Cloud Optimisation For Hsbc Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
CloudCheckr is stable and rock solid.
Top Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Apptio Cloudability needs affordability improvements, dashboard simplification, API enhancements, better support, automation, and broader optimization for Google.
CloudCheckr requires improved integration, easier use, better reporting, clearer pricing, faster performance, and enhanced tool compatibility.
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.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I believe that automating all manual processes in Cloudability would be beneficial, providing a proactive prescriptive analysis on what needs to be done to lower costs.
Enterprise Data Architect at LTIMindtree
It would be beneficial if we could use resource tags to provide more fine-grained visibility.
Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology & Analytics Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Another area is drift analysis; there have been complaints about tracking optimization opportunities, such as how to track opportunities identified in January and whether they were resolved in February.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The data does not work in real time; rather, it takes between one and three days to show you the usage.
IT Director at Instituto de Innovacion Empresarial
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise customers find Apptio Cloudability costly but valuable, especially for large organizations utilizing its advanced features and automation.
CloudCheckr offers competitive, tiered pricing aligned with Azure consumption, providing good value and requiring a CloudCheckr CMx license.
If you are not going to use a lot of the automation that comes with the Turbonomics, with the cost findings and the ability to turn machines on and off and all these different things, it is probably not worth paying for Premium.
Platform Engineer at Treasury Wine Estates
Compared to the rest of the industry, they may be a little more expensive than some other FinOps tools.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Overall, the pricing was quite convenient and represented good value for money.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Pricing is feature-tiered under the MSP licensing, and I would say the pricing was quite competitive and fair.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
I won't pretend it's cheap, but we've saved multiples of what we pay for it, so the conversation with finance is straightforward.
Top Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Apptio Cloudability offers advanced optimization, cost visibility, customizable dashboards, and tools for efficient multi-cloud management and cost control.
CloudCheckr offers simplicity, cost visibility, actionable insights, multi-cloud integration, and security, leading to significant savings and efficiency.
The forecasting feature has helped me understand how the resources are utilized and how the cost is burned, and then I use it to make changes to keep the cost in control.
Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology & Analytics Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The Views feature is also beneficial because lots of teams may use Cloudability within an organization, allowing users to segregate data to particular Views so they are only looking at what's relevant to them.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Apptio Cloudability has positively impacted my organization by providing cloud cost visibility, allowing there to be trust in those numbers, providing showback and chargeback capabilities, and ensuring that cloud costs are fully understood.
Global Finops Cloud Optimisation For Hsbc Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The cost visibility and reporting are really valuable, and the dashboard is informative and enables good decision-making.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
What makes CloudCheckr easy for me to use is its intuitive interface.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Apptio Cloudability
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
3rd
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CloudCheckr
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
9th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (9th), Managed Cloud Services (5th), AI Observability (19th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Apptio Cloudability is 5.7%, down from 13.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudCheckr is 3.1%, down from 3.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Apptio Cloudability5.7%
CloudCheckr3.1%
Other91.2%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

KW
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.
AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
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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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Construction Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What needs improvement with Cloudability?
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 ...
What is your primary use case for Cloudability?
I use Cloudability to track costs across a multi-cloud infrastructure estate, including Google Cloud, AWS Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Everything from reports and dashboards to anomaly alerts and ri...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reflects that it uses custom pricing based on your cloud spend, which is pretty standard for this category. I won't pretend it's cheap, but we'...
What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?
The interface could be improved because it is too dense and overloaded with too many charts and too much information on each screen. Latency is also something important to take into account. The da...
What is your primary use case for CloudCheckr ?
My main use case for CloudCheckr is checking the Azure cloud costs of my SaaS service. A specific example of how I use CloudCheckr to check those Azure cloud costs with my SaaS service is that my A...
 

Also Known As

No data available
CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP
 

Overview

 

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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