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Apptio Costing vs North Cloud comparison

 

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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
7.7
Apptio Costing enhances financial transparency, reduces cloud expenses, improves efficiencies, and increases ROI by up to 32% through automation.
Sentiment score
5.2
North Cloud users saw a 25% ROI by reducing resource waste, cutting costs, and simplifying billing, saving time and effort.
Making decisions behind tech investments is easier with the budgeting tool Apptio Costing provides.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
Because we have detailed visibility and can monitor and report matters faster, we have seen a return on investment by 30%.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
I have seen a return on investment, as identifying ownership gaps in technology and applications has been easy while providing IT leaders with operational details tied to the financials, such as how much we are spending on projects versus what we think we are spending.
Team Lead at UST Global
I did not need more employees and was able to reduce headcount by a ratio of one to three because North Cloud performs the work that other engineers would do.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
I have seen a return on investment through time saved and achieving 10 to 30% cloud cost savings by optimizing my environment and reducing idle resource wastage.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.4
Apptio Costing's customer service is praised for responsiveness, 24/7 availability, and efficient issue resolution, earning high user ratings.
Sentiment score
5.4
North Cloud's customer service is praised for friendliness, helpfulness, and responsiveness, despite occasional response delays.
The customer support is professional and responsive
Project Manager at Flextronics
They are very responsive, respond to questions on time, and provide solutions.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
Customer support for Apptio Costing is very responsive to technical questions.
Open Source Engineer at ZuriChat
We reached out during onboarding, and they were very responsive and technically helpful.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
Customer support for North Cloud is really good, as I receive responses within a timely manner.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
Customer support for North Cloud is great; they are friendly.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
Apptio Costing is praised for its scalability, consistently accommodating organizational growth efficiently without increased costs.
Sentiment score
5.7
North Cloud offers scalable, stable solutions with efficient multi-cloud support, enhanced dashboard speed, and no reported downtime issues.
Apptio Costing's scalability is very good as it grows with my organization's needs.
Team Lead at UST Global
Apptio Costing is scalable; it grows with you when your product grows and they do not hike prices.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
Apptio Costing is very scalable and grows with my organization's needs.
Project Manager at Flextronics
North Cloud is scalable in a way that when you are growing your enterprise, it grows with you.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
North Cloud's scalability is excellent, as it handles growth and changes in our cloud environment well.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
It is optimized for multi-accounts and multi-cloud environments, with a better caching mechanism for frequent queries.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.8
Apptio Costing is praised for its exceptional stability and reliability, with users reporting no downtime or performance issues.
Sentiment score
8.0
North Cloud offers reliable performance with stable uptime, efficient cost reporting, and source-based billing reliability despite minor update delays.
Apptio Costing is stable; we have not seen any downtime.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
Apptio Costing is very stable, and I have not experienced any downtime or lagging.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
I have not seen any downtime in the tool.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
North Cloud is stable as we have not experienced any downtime or issues.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
The output of North Cloud is very efficient and reliable, providing appropriate answers with high accuracy in cost reporting and billing source-based reliability.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
 

Room For Improvement

Improvements needed for Apptio Costing: seamless integration, expanded cloud support, UI simplification, data link fixes, direct adjustments, multilingual support.
North Cloud should expand AWS savings plans, improve multilingual support, enhance AI, and offer better customer service and integration.
It is worth mentioning that Apptio Costing does not have historical balance sheets.
Team Lead at UST Global
The user interface should be improved to be more user-friendly, easy to navigate, and customizable.
Project Manager at Flextronics
The UI should be more user-friendly and intuitive, as drilling down into budget line items in planning takes time and multiple clicks.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
Enhancing custom reporting with a more flexible report builder, drag-and-drop functionality, SQL support, and the ability to create custom KPIs per unit.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
This isn't a limitation on the North side, as they were able to rapidly add support for the existing database savings plans offerings when they launched, but more of an AWS limitation.
Director of Engineering at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
I would like to see additional savings for RDS and data transfer, as that would help my organization.
CTO & Co-Founder at Cabinet
 

Setup Cost

Enterprise users find Apptio Costing affordable and straightforward, with seamless acquisition and high satisfaction in pricing and setup.
North Cloud offers flexible, affordable pricing and easy setup, appealing to enterprises needing quick implementation without long-term commitments.
I found it to be very cost-effective and easy to set up.
Project Manager at Flextronics
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Apptio Costing was that everything was cost-effective and affordable.
Product Manager at Capgemini
I found the pricing to be more affordable, especially depending on the features that Apptio Costing provides.
Open Source Engineer at ZuriChat
Pricing for North Cloud is acceptable at $99 per month, which is affordable.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
The setup cost is low with minimal infrastructure efforts needed, as it is fully cloud-based and requires cloud account integrations, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, billing access setup, and roles and permission configurations.
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
With our North Cloud account, we can take advantage of cost savings without committing to a contract, which makes it flexible for seasons when usage fluctuates.
Co-Founder at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
 

Valuable Features

Apptio Costing optimizes resource allocation and cost management with data visualization, customizable reporting, and seamless financial integration.
North Cloud provides seamless multi-cloud support, cost-saving insights, intuitive tools, and real-time analytics for effective financial management.
Apptio Costing provides IT leaders with operational details tied to the financials, indicating how much we are spending on projects versus what we think we are spending.
Project Manager at Flextronics
Apptio Costing has impacted my organization positively because everything with Apptio Costing has been positive, and one thing is that it is very easy to use.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
Planning, budget, and forecasting in Apptio Costing has made the biggest difference for my team, as it helps with annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and capital project tracking.
Product Manager at Capgemini
We were able to reduce spend on our AWS bill without using any internal employee hours and without worrying about any complicated account changes.
CTO & Co-Founder at Cabinet
North Cloud has positively impacted our organization because we are aware of what we will incur in terms of the cost of using AWS or GCP. It has really helped us to save more, which was not happening in the past.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
The unique aspect of the real-time analytics feature is that instead of logging into Google Cloud Platform, I can log into North Cloud and see exactly how the usage breaks down across CPU, RAM, storage, and network components.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
 

Categories and Ranking

Apptio Costing
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
16th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
North Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
13th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Apptio Costing is 1.0%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of North Cloud is 1.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
North Cloud1.2%
Apptio Costing1.0%
Other97.8%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Newalo Lewis - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead at UST Global
Cost transparency has transformed IT budgeting and now supports confident, data‑driven decisions
The best features that Apptio Costing offers include reducing the total cost of ownership associated with large applications in any organization while providing a business-centric view of technology with insights that help our IT organization unlock and shift resources. It understands any business unit expense from the app, product, or service down to the general ledger and allocates costs based on consumption metrics, enabling precise resource allocation and budget optimization. All the features of Apptio Costing are great and helpful, as it helps organizations classify, categorize, and consolidate IT spend, ensuring investments are directed to the highest value-add opportunities. In addition to the features, cost recovery, where Apptio Costing determines the proper billing amount from each business unit using business rules, and unit rate billing, where it exposes the drivers business units can use to mitigate cost and reinvest in high-value IT activities, also stand out.
AmandeepSingh4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Technology at Iris Software Technologies Private Limited
Improved cloud cost governance has enabled precise budgeting, monitoring, and waste reduction
For North Cloud's improvement, I would suggest enhancing its AI capabilities, adding advanced AI/ML features, improving real-time cost tracking to reduce the delay between cloud usage and dashboard updates, enhancing custom reporting with a more flexible report builder, drag-and-drop functionality, SQL support, and the ability to create custom KPIs per unit, as well as deeper cloud integrations beyond Azure, AWS, and GCP to Kubernetes cost tracking, improving tagging governance, and providing automatic detection of missing and incorrect cloud tags, plus AI-based tagging recommendations and a better user experience with more modern and interactive dashboards for easier navigation for non-technical users. For needed improvements, I would add that there should be easier navigation for non-technical users for the financial team and a simplified onboarding for new users, along with advanced alerting systems, smart alert thresholds using historical trends, predictive alerts, and multi-channel notifications via Slack, Teams, email, and PagerDuty.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
63%
Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
3%
Construction Company
28%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Large Enterprise1
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apptio Costing?
I do not have experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing; I only use the product.
What needs improvement with Apptio Costing?
I believe Apptio Costing can be improved on the website by providing flexible features that allow us to define variables that we can change directly on the site by creating a widget based on the va...
What is your primary use case for Apptio Costing?
My main use case for Apptio Costing is for budget forecasting and cost analysis because it is somewhat complicated in our company, particularly in our database operation area. Currently, we use App...
What needs improvement with North Cloud?
I think North Cloud can be improved by enhancing what we call client support. Currently, when you need to chat with an agent, you have to go through the chatbot, which sometimes tries to solve your...
What is your primary use case for North Cloud?
I use North Cloud to optimize AWS costs and to receive alerts when costs become too high, and also to integrate it with FinOps, which helps me catch costs across the clouds I use. For example, we h...
What advice do you have for others considering North Cloud?
My advice to others looking into using North Cloud is that if you have the budget and you want to optimize the cost of AWS and Google Cloud and need a tool that does not require technical knowledge...
 

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Also Known As

Apptio Costing and Planing
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