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Azure Cost Management vs CloudBolt comparison

 

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Executive Summary

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
7.8
Azure Cost Management optimizes expenses, providing significant savings and enhanced resource oversight, achieving 10-15% expenditure reduction.
Sentiment score
7.9
CloudBolt's efficiency and automation reduced costs by 60% and improved delivery speed by over 50% in three years.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.0
Azure Cost Management is well-documented, promoting user independence, though complex issues may face delayed support response times.
Sentiment score
8.5
CloudBolt's customer service excels with quick responses, proactive follow-ups, and knowledgeable support, ensuring efficient issue resolution.
I would rate the technical support of Microsoft in general as nine out of ten.
Senior Database / Data Management Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.0
Azure Cost Management is highly scalable, supporting diverse needs across various sizes, with strong integration and growth capabilities despite minor challenges.
Sentiment score
6.7
CloudBolt scales effectively across environments but may struggle with horizontal scaling; VMware infrastructure adapts by resource adjustments.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.4
Azure Cost Management is stable, reliable, with minimal issues, though some report occasional glitches and extended report times.
Sentiment score
7.7
CloudBolt is widely regarded as stable, with some issues resolved swiftly and benefiting from strong support and collaboration.
 

Room For Improvement

Azure Cost Management users desire improved integration, granularity, scalability, automation, affordability, support, reporting, customization, and user-friendly features.
CloudBolt needs improvements in container support, user interface, integration, billing, scheduling, SaaS management, and on-prem/cloud integration.
Customization features could be added for Azure Cost Management.
Senior Database / Data Management Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Azure Cost Management is cost-effective, bundled with services, but some users seek improvements in pricing competitiveness and structure.
CloudBolt offers flexible pricing with discounts, allowing cost-effective management based on deployment size, though fees vary by location.
The pricing part could be improved.
Senior Database / Data Management Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Azure Cost Management provides customizable, real-time insights, forecasting, and analytics, aiding efficient expenditure tracking and reduction with ease and flexibility.
CloudBolt excels in ease of use, flexibility, and expandability, offering extensive automation, customization, and cloud management features.
Azure Cost Management helps me in forecasting and knowing the expected budget.
Senior Database / Data Management Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Cost Management
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
46
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CloudBolt
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
45th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (29th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Azure Cost Management is 3.5%, down from 9.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudBolt is 1.3%, down from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Azure Cost Management3.5%
CloudBolt1.3%
Other95.2%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Joy Maitra - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
AdeolaEkunola - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at NIGERCUBES LTD
The solution offers reliable resource control but needs to improve its UI
Cloudbox is just an abstraction software. There is no need for scalability. It's quite a simple solution. You might only need to increase the resources you apply to the CloudBold deployment. If, for example, the number of users increases, you might have to check the recommendations from CloudBolt and act accordingly. We have over 100 internal users. Regarding the infrastructure it sits on, the solution sits on the private of the on-prem, a VMware infrastructure that stands across two sites, the DR and the main production. We have over 60 ESXi of Asterisk and about 500 or 1,000 virtual machines.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Performing Arts
7%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Cost Management?
Gives visibility into the cost of cloud-based solutions.
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 our licenses.
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 try to understand which service consumed how much cost and look at different ch...
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Also Known As

Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
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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
WM, CyWest, Panic, Camden, University of Maryland, Xerox, Neustar, Medidata, Continu, Aruba Networks, Neuberger Berman, Peak6, EverBank, Ascensus, Hosting Edge
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