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Azure Cost Management vs PerfectScale 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:
 

Categories and Ranking

Azure Cost Management
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PerfectScale
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
23rd
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
1.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Azure Cost Management is 3.4%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PerfectScale is 1.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Cost Management3.4%
PerfectScale1.8%
Other94.8%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

HM
Architect at Nagarro
Has helped define budget limits and monitor cost impact during long-term solution planning
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 charts in the dashboards, it's difficult to understand which chart is representing what. Those interfaces could be made simpler. I'm not much into analytics patterns, so Azure Cost Management's Cost Analytics feature hasn't particularly helped my organization understand spending patterns.
reviewer2750058 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps & FinOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Gain visibility into Kubernetes clusters and optimize resource allocation based on historical data
I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services. They should implement this in their autoscaler to make it more useful in scenarios that require immediate scaling up or down. They should also offer more options for visualizing graphs in different ways, such as tabular views.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"My advice to others would be that they should use it; they should try it out - it's a very good solution, and it gives a very detailed analysis of your subscription costs."
"My organization benefits from the tool's performance and time-saving features."
"We use the solution as a cost management tool to control the budget. It is easy to mange costs with the product."
"Cost management is the console's most valuable feature."
"It encompasses a multitude of specialized services, each with its associated costs and considerations."
"The cost analysis and exportability are the most valuable features of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Azure Cost Management is cost optimization."
"The product provides visibility into what we are consuming."
"Automated resource optimization using different policies based on the environment enabled the organization to achieve infrastructure cost savings."
"The cluster and workload autoscaler gives us the ability to have control over all the workloads' resources instead of managing them one by one."
"PerfectScale made our Kubernetes optimization effortless; it found wasted resources, lowered our cloud costs, and improved performance almost instantly."
 

Cons

"All the offers should be on the console. You shouldn't need to select from different tabs."
"I have experienced scalability issues."
"I'd like to see improvements in tracking billing and costs. It would be helpful to have alerts generated by instance and location. We use the cloud for multiple programs, and it's difficult to segregate costs and get budgets from customers. We have to tag each instance, which is time-consuming. Automation and proactive alerts by instance or instance IDs would be beneficial."
"The solution could improve its APIs to access the customer application."
"I would like to see some features included for costing and more information about the components of deployment. Sometimes, it's very difficult to match the component with the solution because the descriptions are not very clear."
"Cost Management could always provide more details. The more information, the better. They just need to build on what they have now."
"I would rate this product a seven out of 10."
"The response time of customer support can be improved."
"At the beginning, the support was not very impressive."
"I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services."
"With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's bundled in with the package. I have it as part of the package."
"I rate the price of Azure Cost Management an eight out of ten."
"I think the solution was free initially."
"I give the solution's overall cost an eight out of ten."
"The product is not cheap, but it is not expensive either."
"We are using pay-as-you-go licenses mostly for our customers."
"The subscription fees are primarily tailored to larger enterprises, potentially leaving smaller and medium-sized customers with limited options."
"It's free out of the box."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Insurance Company
30%
Construction Company
26%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise34
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Questions from the Community

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...
What is your primary use case for Azure Cost Management?
I use Azure Cost Management indirectly from Snowflake. Not all of the Azure stack is utilized, only some of it for the future.
What needs improvement with PerfectScale?
With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition.
 

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
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