CloudCheckr vs Cloudability comparison

Apptio and Spot - A Flexera company are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Apptio is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1, while Spot - A Flexera company is ranked #11 with an average rating of 6.0. Apptio holds a 12.0% mindshare in CCM, compared to Spot - A Flexera company’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 76% of Apptio users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 66% of Spot - A Flexera company users who would recommend it.

Cloudability

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76% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Cloudability and CloudCheckr are major players in the cloud management sector. Cloudability seems to have an advantage in AWS integration due to its depth in detailed cost analysis and reserved instance planning, while CloudCheckr offers better multi-cloud compatibility, making it appealing for varied cloud environments.

Features: Cloudability offers comprehensive metrics for financial management, reserved instance planning, and customized dashboards. Its integration with AWS is robust, with features such as tagging capabilities and rightsizing recommendations. CloudCheckr excels with strong billing capabilities, security insights, and the ability to scale easily across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Room for Improvement: Cloudability users suggest enhancements in user onboarding, API documentation, and long-term forecasting. Discrepancies in billing data and automation needs in data handling are noted areas needing attention. It could also broaden its focus to include more cloud providers. CloudCheckr needs performance improvements with large datasets and better integration with Azure and GCP, while its non-AWS security compliance could be enhanced. Reporting and user guidance in both products could be improved.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both products provide public cloud support, but only CloudCheckr extends to private clouds. Cloudability's support varies, with some users finding it inconsistent and lacking real-time options. CloudCheckr also receives mixed feedback, particularly outside AWS, requiring active customer engagement for effective support and deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Cloudability is perceived as expensive for large-scale users but can provide significant ROI through cost-saving recommendations, with some users claiming a 9x ROI. Its usage-based pricing model may deter smaller operations. In contrast, CloudCheckr is deemed fairly priced, delivering consistent value adaptable to diverse cloud usage structures. While both offer ROI through predictive analytics and reserved instance savings, Cloudability's cost may limit its appeal to smaller clients, whereas CloudCheckr remains reasonably priced across various scales.

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudability

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

4th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

4.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

CloudCheckr

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

11th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Management (28th), Managed Cloud Services (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Cloud Cost Management category, 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 (%)
Cloudability	12.0%
CloudCheckr	4.1%
Other	83.9%

Cloud Cost Management

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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

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

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

"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."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to create reports and dashboards."

"It provides us visibility, then we can turn around and can give the leadership team more information, which we could not previously give them."

"One of the standout features of the solution is its groups and views functionality. The solution is highly-stable. The solution is highly-scalable. The customer support is good. They can be easily contacted. The initial setup is straightforward. It's an excellent tool, especially when dealing with multiple clouds. It streamlines the process, eliminating the need to check each cloud individually."

"The support from IBM is fantastic"

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

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

"The solution is mostly stable."

"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 initial setup is straightforward."

"The recommendation section is pretty helpful."

"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."

Cons

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

"I would improve the integration, or the preparation of the integration, for a complex environment."

"I wish there was a feature to temporarily remove certain recommendations from the list for teams that couldn't implement them immediately. I believe Cloudability could improve its automation functionality and enhance cost allocation modeling."

"Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers."

"We have dealt with a few technical support people where we ask for one thing and they might not deliver straightaway. It seems like they are a stretched across multiple customers."

"There are also some limitations with the dashboards and data representation in Cloudability."

"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."

More Cloudability cons

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."

"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."

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

"The solution is reasonably priced."

"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."

"The cost is on par with other providers."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

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	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 Cloudability?

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 Clouda...

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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 the main issues we face. Cloudability is actually expensive, and it's quite diffic...

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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 use Cloudability to help me optimize my selling plan and my residential plan? T...

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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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CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP

Overview

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.

Spot - A Flexera company

Sample Customers

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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