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Apptio Costing vs Zesty 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
Zesty
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
20th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (31st)
 

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 Zesty is 1.6%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Apptio Costing1.2%
Zesty1.6%
Other97.2%
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.
Srinivas Rayudu  - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Zensa Technologies
Managing complex onboarding has been challenging but automated cost optimization delivers strong savings
Zesty is a good solution; however, the learning curve can be complex for new users without a solid tech background, posing a challenge in training and the initial setup process. I would deduct one point for this aspect since everything else is fine. A specific example of where the learning curve caused issues is when we introduced Zesty to our new development team, which struggled to understand the platform while working on a project related to AI and ML. Our system architects explained how Zesty works, but I believe a more proactive approach to training and foundational data could help teams be more self-sufficient and less reliant on internal support.

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 by providing us with a consistent view and a centralized place."
"Apptio Costing is one of the best and a game changer in IT financial analysis tools."
"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."
"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 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."
"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 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 very accurate and reliable; we always get timely responses and timely recommendations that are of a high standard."
"From a metrics perspective, Zesty reduced our Kubernetes infrastructure spend by about 24% in the first six months, we also cut wasted storage costs by roughly 18% and improved saving plan utilization by around 12%, and on the operational side, we saved roughly 40 to 50 hours a month in manual cloud cost tuning."
"Zesty has positively impacted our organization by providing a good return on investment, with a total reported percentage of savings around 40 to 50%."
"One of the reasons we decided to onboard Zesty was that it started supporting Windows instances."
"The turnkey aspect of Zesty is very valuable."
"I think Zesty is a really useful tool, it is really quick, it is really powerful, they are always improving it, and the customer service is flawless."
 

Cons

"Apptio Costing can be improved with more spend AI insights."
"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."
"I think Apptio Costing could be improved, particularly the user interface."
"To improve Apptio Costing, a fixed asset data input needs to allow for more details such as quantities by line item, not by total amount, and I would appreciate access to more of our plans, as we have to achieve or purge prior monthly plans in order to keep the system running faster for our users."
"Regarding the UI and user experience, in my opinion, some of the features do not appear very professional, easy to use, or flexible."
"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 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 Apptio Costing needs to improve in the API integration."
"Zesty is a good solution; however, the learning curve can be complex for new users without a solid tech background, posing a challenge in training and the initial setup process."
"There are different resource types that we would like to leverage and get reserved instances for, such as RDS instances."
"I would like to get RDS-reserved instances that I could buy and sell, but that's a limitation on AWS."
"It would be really useful if Zesty had more code snippets that were easy to use, an easier library instead of their documentation, and something that provided an automated finish to insert code so it could give you code hints."
"The biggest area for improvement is still reporting depth."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution’s pricing is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
58%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Comms Service Provider
3%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Media Company
7%
 

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zesty?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was great, as we had a great account manager that we did not have to query too much about it. The free one was nearly good enough to start with...
What needs improvement with Zesty?
I find myself using the online editor the most often, and what would be better is if you could have multiple windows open to work in, something like an actual program rather than having to shift be...
What is your primary use case for Zesty?
My main use case for Zesty is the CMS. For our corporate website, my team uses Zesty's CMS to allow users from any point in the company to upload content, add posts, add pages, and promote the comp...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Apptio Costing and Planing
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Sample Customers

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Walkme, Wiz, Gong, Grubhub, Singular
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