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Apptio Costing vs Cloud8 Platform comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Apptio Costing
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
5th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Cloud8 Platform
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
35th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
2.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Apptio Costing is 1.2%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloud8 Platform is 0.5%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Apptio Costing1.2%
Cloud8 Platform0.5%
Other98.3%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

VL
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Cost transparency has enabled data‑driven decisions and continuous optimization of IT spend
Regarding how Apptio Costing can be improved, I have not experienced pain points, but it all depends upon the client's data, how clean it is, or if it requires any pre-Apptio work to be done. Once that's cleared up, Apptio Costing does not have many flaws, and the Apptio team is also very good; they provide fixes very soon, so I don't encounter trouble with the application. I am also working with Apptio, trying to implement or enhance AI features which automatically detect anomalies and understand the repeated cost spend in the same pattern, so less manual intervention is needed. Apptio Costing is improving on that front as well.
Dilipkumar Bondugula - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Centralized governance has simplified multi-cloud management and improves compliance monitoring
Cloud8 Platform does not have a lot of improvement areas, but I have a positive experience with it, and one area of improvement would be to provide more customizable dashboards and reporting options so teams can tailor the platform to their specific operational needs. I would also like to see more AI-driven recommendations for cost optimization, security, and compliance, along with deeper integrations with more DevOps and ITSM tools. As an example, I would like to see deeper integrations with tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Slack. It would be useful if Cloud8 Platform could automate ticket creation and remediation workflows when it detects compliance or configuration issues. Additionally, expanding APIs and providing more out-of-the-box automation templates would make it easier to integrate Cloud8 Platform into existing DevOps workflows and reduce manual effort.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Apptio Costing has positively impacted our organization mainly by improving transparency around IT spending, giving us a much clearer understanding of where our IT costs come from, how they are allocated, and which application services or business units are driving those costs."
"Apptio Costing gives comprehensive visibility into IT expenditures and excels in offering actionable insights that fuel cost optimization and enable me to make data-driven decisions easily."
"Apptio Costing is a great tool for anyone willing to purchase it, especially if they have a real need for understanding their IT spend, AI spend, or any cloud spend, so they can definitely go for this."
"I have seen a reduction in time by fifteen percent, and I have also seen cost savings of thirty percent since using Apptio Costing."
"Apptio Costing has impacted us positively by reducing the costs; we have reduced the cost by 31% because we no longer use every feature we find; we only use the features that are more important to our business."
"A specific outcome or metric resulting from using Apptio Costing is that it has enabled a great relationship between IT, finance, and the business units, giving the business units and the SSUs much better visibility into what their technology costs are, making decisions behind tech investments easier with the budgeting tool Apptio Costing provides."
"Apptio Costing has positively impacted our organization by providing us with a consistent view and a centralized place."
"Apptio Costing is very accurate and reliable; we always get timely responses and timely recommendations that are of a high standard."
"Overall, these features help our team work more efficiently and maintain a reliable cloud environment."
"Cloud8 delivered real savings of 16.5% within 45 days, with zero downtime, and supported an architecture redesign."
 

Cons

"One way Apptio Costing can be improved is that data linking has been a limitation for any organization when integrating with other applications like Snowflake or ERP."
"Regarding the UI and user experience, in my opinion, some of the features do not appear very professional, easy to use, or flexible."
"I think Apptio Costing needs to improve in the API integration."
"For the initial setup and configuration, while the platform is very powerful, building and maintaining a complex cost model always requires significant expertise and a good understanding of the underlying data."
"I think Apptio Costing could be improved, particularly the user interface."
"Apptio Costing can be improved with more spend AI insights."
"I think Apptio Costing can be improved in a few areas; the first one is the analysis because it takes a lot of time to automate and ingest what we call the financial and operational projections, and sometimes the given value is invalid, so that one needs more improvement so that the projection analysis is always accurate and that is going to save more people a lot of time and being aware of what the cost is going to be."
"I think the user interface of Apptio Costing needs to be improved because when you are accessing the tool on a very small screen, you find that the user interface is very nested, so you cannot easily find the feature you want to use because they are nested together."
"Cloud8 Platform does not have a lot of improvement areas, but I have a positive experience with it, and one area of improvement would be to provide more customizable dashboards and reporting options so teams can tailor the platform to their specific operational needs."
"I would like to see integration with Datadog for billing and cost analytics."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
58%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
3%
Construction Company
45%
Comms Service Provider
19%
Healthcare Company
11%
Transportation Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise15
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apptio Costing?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was straightforward, and I found the pricing to be more affordable, especially depending on the features that Apptio Costing provides.
What needs improvement with Apptio Costing?
I think Apptio Costing can be improved in a few areas; the first one is the analysis because it takes a lot of time to automate and ingest what we call the financial and operational projections, an...
What is your primary use case for Apptio Costing?
I use Apptio Costing in two different ways: one, to optimize the costs of cloud tools like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud; and then alongside, I also use the solution to understand what is ...
What needs improvement with Cloud8 Platform?
Cloud8 Platform does not have a lot of improvement areas, but I have a positive experience with it, and one area of improvement would be to provide more customizable dashboards and reporting option...
What is your primary use case for Cloud8 Platform?
My use cases of Cloud8 Platform would be cloud infrastructure management and governance. I use it mainly to provision and manage cloud resources, monitor infrastructure health, track costs, and ens...
 

Also Known As

Apptio Costing and Planing
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Overview

Find out what your peers are saying about Apptio Costing vs. Cloud8 Platform and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
915,341 professionals have used our research since 2012.