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Apptio Cloudability vs CoreStack 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
5.8
CoreStack achieved 40% cost savings and $8,000 monthly ROI through automation, cost visibility, and enhanced resource management.
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
With 20 reports every month, that's 80 hours saved, equating to two man-weeks per month, or $8,000 in savings based on a $100 hourly rate for my architect.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We suggested they proceed with CoreStack, and after onboarding it to our offering, within three months, we received positive feedback from customers that we were able to reduce some of their costs.
Senior Solution Architect at Hitachi Systems India Private Ltd
It generates value addition on top of the Trusted Advisor report, which saves major effort for our resources.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
 

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
7.1
CoreStack excels in customer service with responsive support, dedicated managers, and efficiency in task reduction, enhancing satisfaction.
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
CoreStack has positively impacted my organization by saving hours of time for reporting—for example, the governance report which my employees used to take at least four hours for one customer.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
CoreStack support would be around a nine on a scale of one to ten.
Director - SOC & Architecture at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I have interacted with CoreStack's customer support, and we managed to obtain a technical demo from their team for my team from time to time.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.8
Apptio Cloudability scales well for multiple users but has minor limitations in features and detailed reporting.
Sentiment score
7.5
CoreStack excels in managing scalability across multi-cloud environments, supporting enterprise growth and multi-region governance without issues.
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
It generates and captures metrics of your workload, which meets our requirements all the time.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
We haven't encountered any issues regarding scalability; the SaaS platform easily accommodates our growth.
Senior Vice President at a tech services 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
7.0
CoreStack is praised for its robust stability, efficient compliance reporting, and adherence to CIS and NIST security standards.
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
 

Room For Improvement

Apptio Cloudability needs affordability improvements, dashboard simplification, API enhancements, better support, automation, and broader optimization for Google.
CoreStack needs enhancements in stability, UI, integrations, customization, security, cost optimization, and AI for improved user experience.
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
The recommendations made in CoreStack to delete a machine have the potential to generate major cost savings.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
We need more security features, particularly since the market is increasingly demanding better security tools for cloud management platforms, including cloud security posture assessments.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Specifically, integration with vulnerability management tools and ticketing tools like Jira was not available, so having that would be beneficial.
Director - SOC & Architecture at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise customers find Apptio Cloudability costly but valuable, especially for large organizations utilizing its advanced features and automation.
CoreStack offers competitive and transparent pricing, manageable setup costs, and flexible licensing for complex enterprise cloud environments.
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
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is straightforward and has flexible pricing based on workload consumption.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
I believe has been competitively priced across the market.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I had no concerns about pricing, setup cost, and licensing since the cost was nominal and good.
Director - SOC & Architecture 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.
CoreStack enhances compliance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness through FinOps, governance, and centralized reporting, reducing misconfiguration by 25%.
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 single pane of glass for multi-cloud cost optimization helps me day-to-day by bringing a lot of operational excellence; it saves a lot of time because rather than going to each and every account or multi-cloud portal, which takes a lot of time, having everything on a single pane of glass increases efficiency, delivers results in less time, and provides clear reporting that can be shared with the customer in PDF or CSV formats.
Senior Vice President at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
The best features CoreStack offers are primarily the recommendations for cost optimization for RDS and EC2 machines.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
For example, from AWS, it provides visibility on EBS volumes that are not being used, and it gives recommendations to delete them and save some cost.
Senior Solution Architect at Hitachi Systems India Private Ltd
 

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
CoreStack
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
25th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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 CoreStack is 1.3%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Apptio Cloudability5.7%
CoreStack1.3%
Other93.0%
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.
Manmohan Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Cost reports have driven accurate AWS workload optimization and continue to guide savings
I can suggest improvements for CoreStack, especially regarding reporting periods. I noticed that some of the cost optimization reports generated potential savings while considering systems that have only maximum utilization of 1% or 2%. The recommendations made in CoreStack to delete a machine have the potential to generate major cost savings, but such machines should not be listed for deletion if they have maximum CPU utilization of 1%. I have concerns about needed improvements primarily regarding AWS. If a customer is running ten virtual machines and one machine has a maximum of 1% utilization, it is considered as an idle instance in the report, which completely ignores that particular machine. This should not be the approach.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
5%
Media Company
18%
Construction Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

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 Business1
Large Enterprise6
 

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 CoreStack?
I had no concerns about pricing, setup cost, and licensing since the cost was nominal and good.
What needs improvement with CoreStack?
The basic functionality of the CSPM and the compliance were present, but there were no feature additions for those modules for the past two to three years, which was not great. From a usability per...
What is your primary use case for CoreStack?
My main use case for CoreStack was CSPM and compliance CoreStack helped me to manage the Cloud Security Posture Management across different clouds, including AWS, Azure, and other cloud providers. ...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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