Azure Cost Management vs CloudCheckr vs Cloudability comparison

Microsoft and Apptio are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Microsoft is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.1, while Apptio is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1. Microsoft holds a 6.0% mindshare in CCM, compared to Apptio’s 12.0% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 76% of Apptio users who would recommend it.

Azure Cost Management

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87% willing to recommend

Cloudability

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1,603 Views
1,555 Comparison Views

76% willing to recommend

CloudCheckr

Read 8 CloudCheckr reviews

924 Views
536 Comparison Views

66% willing to recommend

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Azure Cost Management is 6.0%, down from 10.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Cloudability is 12.0%, up from 11.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudCheckr is 4.1%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Azure Cost Management	6.0%
Cloudability	12.0%
CloudCheckr	4.1%
Other	77.9%

Cloud Cost Management

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Joy Maitra

Sr. Technical Architect at Hexaware Technologies Limited

Continuous monitoring and predictive analytics help provide insights into utilization

Continuous monitoring helps me detect anomalies in the pipeline, preplan resource scalability, and assist with cost management by offering good visibility into resource utilization. It also offers predictive analytics and some existing features, including dashboards. The AI prediction feature helps forecast based on current utilization trends and suggests improvements like the GenAI feature for interactive inquiries.

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BapineeduBollempalli

Enterprise Data Architect at LTIMindtree

Provides insightful cost analysis and reporting but could improve automation and user customization

I work on the cloud platform primarily. I work on Google Cloud Platform's cost optimization where I identify opportunities and resources to optimize costs for customers, including infrastructure costs and BigQuery costs. This also encompasses managing unused backups, data, decommissioning, archiving, right-sizing VM instances, and slot consumption. I am a consultant, not an end user of this solution. I use it internally in my company, and I collect data for the customers as I work in LTI Mindtree. Cloudability's customizable alerts help me maintain budgetary goals by providing recommendations and alerts on slot usages. It also alerts me if some VM suddenly causes a spike in cost and usage. We look at the policies in place for infrastructure optimization concerning Compute Engine, persistent disks, MIGs, and VMs, and we leverage decommissioning of VMs or persistent disks and right-sizing the Compute Engine to ensure the customer doesn't go on demand and has an appropriate size of reserved instances allocated, thereby lowering costs proactively. On a scale of one to ten, I rate Cloudability a six out of ten.

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Peter Ramnath

Associate Director, ITSM & Onboarding at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Provides recommendations regarding how cost and consumption can be adjusted, but the reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited

We are not happy with the product’s reporting capabilities. We are planning to change the solution. The security compliance feature doesn’t give much data because CloudCheckr has done a majority of its development on AWS. The majority of our clients are on Microsoft Azure. There are a lot of features and information available for Amazon, but not for Azure. The tool wasn't meeting our expectations. The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited. There's no ability to do scheduled email reports. The report could only be sent to a single email address. The tool was not very usable. We had multiple clients and tasks to work with.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Continuous monitoring helps me detect anomalies in the pipeline, preplan resource scalability, and assist with cost management by offering good visibility into resource utilization."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it's extremely customizable. It makes it very flexible in terms of usage."

"The most valuable feature is that our customers can see their consumption in real time. Even though we have a couple of analytics provided by our company, those are not in real time."

"The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is cost optimization."

"Good control features and user interface."

"The interface is good and user-friendly, allowing us to manage it proactively and efficiently. We use the budgeting and forecasting functions for financial planning, which work fine."

"I recommend it because it helps forecast and maintain the expected budget, setting clear expectations for the customer which is very important."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

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"The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management."

"The support from IBM is fantastic"

"Cloudability's customizable alerts help me maintain budgetary goals by providing recommendations and alerts on slot usages."

"Each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data."

"We use the product to get a detailed level of transparency on the cloud strengths."

"All the tagging and mapping, which helps to create some virtual tags are useful features."

"The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly."

"It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage."

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"It's one of the leading players for cloud optimization. It's hard to find anything better."

"The solution is scalable for our purposes."

"The recommendation section is pretty helpful."

"The initial setup is straightforward."

"The most valuable feature of CloudCheckr CMx High Security is granular reporting. Additionally, the user interface is easy to use."

"The best feature I like about CloudCheckr CMx High Security is its simplicity. I love that it's not rocket science to use the solution. Even if you're not familiar with the cloud, you can easily figure out how to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You can use AWS, you can use Azure, and you can use GCP with the solution because the integration is quite simple. You can also use multi-cloud with it, and you could see the billing part. You'll have complete visibility into your cost which I love about the solution. I also love that data on any security issues and vulnerabilities are available on the go with CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You don't need to do anything different. Just run the scan and you'll have all these open findings in the tool, in terms of the priority level, so if it's critical, it will tell you, "It's critical," and you need to fix it right away."

"It will automatically suggest areas for optimization."

"The solution is mostly stable."

Cons

"The response time of customer support can be improved."

"Azure Cost Management should be made cheaper."

"Azure Cost Management needs to improve scalability."

"The affordability of licenses and subscription fees is a critical consideration, as not all companies can easily manage the cost of expensive licenses."

"The solution needs an automated dashboard and better reporting."

"All the offers should be on the console. You shouldn't need to select from different tabs."

"It would be beneficial if Azure Cost Management could automatically generate budget rules using AI insights, eliminating the need for manual configuration."

"The policy-based remediation is probably the biggest area where Azure is lacking and that's why we sell a lot of our technology to our customers."

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"Enhancements could be made in the user interface and customization, and leveraging GenAI would be an area for improvement in Cloudability."

"The dashboard needs to include more graphs per team to show what individual teams are spending in a given time period."

"We would like them to have a linear regression, so we can be predictive for budgets, allocations, and the year's follow ups. We also want to have a longer window of analytics with better certainty that our workload will fit the model, not just in a two week window."

"Cloudability needs to improve on data collection from cloud sources."

"I would like the API functionality to improve. The update time after uploading data could also be improved."

"They can improve the custom range of the network."

"Right now, what we're doing is we are manually putting the data in it, which is something which we don't like about Cloudability."

"There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build."

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"What needs to be improved in CloudCheckr CMx High Security is integration. All the clouds are going quite fast, for example, all the cloud providers: Microsoft, Google, etc. CloudCheckr CMx High Security is good with AWS, no doubt about it, but with Azure and Google Cloud, I find that the solution is slow in that direction. If the vendor planned for CloudCheckr CMx High Security to be automated just for AWS, then it does make sense. If not, if the vendor is also targeting good integration with Google and Microsoft, then CloudCheckr CMx High Security integration needs improvement, in particular, it has to be faster. At the moment, its integration with Azure is not as good as its integration with AWS. With GCP, integration is nowhere."

"The reporting and analytic capabilities are very limited."

"Self-healing could be a bit smoother and a bit cleaner, easier to access and more functional. That would help."

"The solution must improve its user interface."

"The performance of the tool really needs to be improved."

"The solution needs to work better with larger capacities of data."

"CloudCheckr CMx High Security is complex. There are a lot of menus, and if you do not know what you are looking for you can get lost. However, the interface is self-explanatory. It's easy to understand where to go to get what you want."

"Many features still need to be implemented in this tool."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing isn't applicable as it's included with the subscription. It depends on the services used. If you acquire any services on Azure, you pay for the subscription, and the billing or cost management is included for free."

"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten - the price could be lower."

"I think the solution was free initially."

"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive either."

"You are charged based on how much you use the solution."

"Based on the transitional cost we charge, it's not expensive, but could be better."

"Azure Cost Management comes as a part of other solutions. You need to pay as per your requirement based on the pay-as-you-go model."

"The tool's licensing costs are monthly."

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"We have seen ROI with the reserved instances, and having the ability to predict what reserved instances you can get. We can save tens of thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases."

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

"The price of the license or the usage is a percentage of the top consumption. So it varies from year to year."

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."

"My team is one of the most expensive teams, and we look at it quite a bit. We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year."

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"The cost is on par with other providers."

"A license is needed to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security, but because we are a managed service provider, the price of the license would vary. It depends on the type of cloud users we have, for example, it would be some type of percentage or monthly billing, etc."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Energy/Utilities Company

Performing Arts

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Retailer

Computer Software Company

17%

Manufacturing Company

University

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	11
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	32

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Cost Management?

Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Cost Management?

The pricing part could be improved. I would rate it as six out of ten. It depends on the solution. We mostly pay for ...

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What needs improvement with Azure Cost Management?

There are areas in Azure Cost Management that could be improved; sometimes, as a start user or junior developer, if I...

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What do you like most about Cloudability?

The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboar...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?

I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, where one is very cheap and ten is very expensive. Pricing is one of th...

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What needs improvement with Cloudability?

The first one is, how to help users, especially practitioners, stick to their commitment plan. For example, how can I...

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What do you like most about CloudCheckr ?

The recommendation section is pretty helpful.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?

The price depends on the actual Azure consumption and what we feed into it. The cost is on par with other providers.

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What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?

We are not happy with the product’s reporting capabilities. We are planning to change the solution. The security comp...

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Compared 27% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) vs Cloudability

Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 21% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 13% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Also Known As

Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn

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CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP

Overview

Azure Cost Management provides actionable insights for IT professionals to optimize cloud expenses and align budgets with strategic goals. It features real-time visibility and analytics for efficient resource management.

Azure Cost Management offers a comprehensive suite of tools for cost analysis and control, including budgeting alerts and integration capabilities to optimize resource spending. Its intuitive interface simplifies navigation while providing trend analysis, forecasting, and cost-saving recommendations. By delivering detailed insights into resource usage, Azure helps organizations manage expenses effectively, enabling strategic financial planning through clear visualizations and reports.

What are the key features of Azure Cost Management?

Customizable Cost Analysis: Tailored insights to analyze expenses effectively.
Real-Time Consumption Visibility: Immediate data access for informed decision-making.
Budgeting Alerts: Set alerts to monitor and control spending.
Advisor Recommendations: Integrated advice for cost optimization.
Integration Capabilities: Seamless integration with various platforms.
Trend Analysis and Forecasting: Tools to predict future costs and trends.

What benefits should be expected when using Azure Cost Management?

Expense Optimization: Streamlined processes for managing cloud costs.
Enhanced Budget Management: Precise control over budget allocations.
Improved Financial Insights: Clear reporting for better financial planning.
Strategic Resource Allocation: Insights for aligning resources with business goals.
Efficient Infrastructure Management: Support for cost management strategies across deployments.

Azure Cost Management is widely implemented in industries seeking to monitor and control budgets, optimize costs, and track resource spending. Companies utilize it to gain billing insights, understand usage patterns, and minimize cloud expenses. It is instrumental in managing infrastructure costs and supporting cost management strategies across different deployments, making it valuable for projecting profitability and setting cost alerts.

Microsoft

Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

Apptio

CloudCheckr CMx High Security is a cloud management platform that provides complete visibility into cost and security issues. The primary use cases are day-to-day operations, cloud management, identifying open vulnerabilities and issues from a security perspective, and cost management and optimization.

The solution is praised for its stability, simplicity, ease of use, scalability, excellent technical support, and granular reporting. CloudCheckr CMx High Security provides priority-level data on security issues and vulnerabilities, making it easy to identify critical issues that need immediate attention.

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Sample Customers

Quixey, Infomedia, Panaya, Wix.com, Mirabeau, Mi9, GetTaxi, Outsmart Studios, Bownty, BlazeMeter: The Load Testing Cloud, Irdeto, Effective Measure, Totango, Nextdoor, BranchOut, The BioTeam, Evolven, Netotiate, ClickSoftware

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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