Cloudability vs Google Cloud Billing comparison

Apptio and Google are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Apptio is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.7, while Google is ranked #30. Apptio holds a 7.1% mindshare in CCM, compared to Google’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 77% of Apptio users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Google users who would recommend it.

Cloudability

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Cloudability and Google Cloud Billing are competing in cloud cost management. Cloudability seems to have the upper hand due to its analytics capabilities and multi-cloud support, while Google Cloud Billing offers tight integration within the Google Cloud ecosystem.

Features: Cloudability provides detailed cost analytics, real-time budgeting, and integrates with multiple cloud providers. Google Cloud Billing ensures accurate cost tracking, offers robust budgeting tools, and is deeply integrated with the Google Cloud Platform.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Cloudability offers a straightforward integration process with responsive customer service, focusing on multi-cloud setups. Google Cloud Billing benefits from consistent deployment models and reliable customer support within the Google Cloud environment.

Pricing and ROI: Cloudability's flexible pricing model is favorable for multi-cloud environments, offering strong ROI through analytics. Google Cloud Billing provides pricing simplicity for Google Cloud integrations, resulting in competitive ROI by streamlining cost management.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudability

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

3rd

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Google Cloud Billing

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

30th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Cloudability is 7.1%, down from 12.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Google Cloud Billing is 1.6%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cloudability	7.1%
Google Cloud Billing	1.6%
Other	91.3%

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reviewer2784351

Digital Marketing, Marketing Technology & Analytics Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Gained clear cost visibility and forecasting but still needs finer insights using resource tags

Cloudability offers excellent features including trends, graphs for cost utilization, and forecasting capabilities. The forecasting feature has helped me understand how the resources are utilized and how the cost is burned, and then I use it to make changes to keep the cost in control. Cloudability has positively impacted my organization as it helps us understand cost utilization, make corrections, and understand the forecasting of the cost. It has made reporting much easier.

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PradeepKumar3

Director Technology Solutions at Redintegro Consulting Solution LLP

Simple to set up with helpful for cost management and good reliability

The only issue I faced was a while ago. My card was debited, or rather it was showing as debited when in actuality, it did not debit my card. After six months, they came back with back billing. Somebody should have verified the billing and immediately informed us. So yeah, However, six months is too late to identify such fault sightings. When I want to analyze the information, it would be better, since Google knows what I have used, to only show those items for analysis purposes. Especially when I look at a previous month's billing or usage across services. It's better to show the services which are used, not everything.

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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

"Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud."

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

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

"The pricing isn't too expensive."

"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."

"Cloudability has positively impacted my organization as it helps us understand cost utilization, make corrections, and understand the forecasting of the cost."

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

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

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"It is a stable product."

"We use Google Cloud Billing to pay for or renew the license of our Google Workspace products."

"What I like most about this solution is that it's easy."

Cons

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The API is not well-documented. It is not straightforward and difficult to use. This needs to be improved, as it is very difficult for our developers to develop automation around it."

"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."

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

More Cloudability cons

"Google Cloud Billing should have a more user-friendly interface."

"At times you will find that the computer engines are freezing or it's about to freeze without any notification or information and it's unable to diagnose where it is hung."

"When I want to analyze the information, it would be better, since Google knows what I have used, to only show those items for analysis purposes."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

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

"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 licensing fees are monthly and cost approximately $100.00."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

11%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	12

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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?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was adequate, but it could be made better.

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What needs improvement with Cloudability?

It would be beneficial if we could use resource tags to provide more fine-grained visibility.

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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

Google Cloud's cost management tools provide the visibility, accountability, control, and intelligence you need so that you can scale your business in the cloud with confidence. Tailored to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes, these tools help reduce complexity and increase the predictability of your cloud costs.

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Sample Customers

Adobe, Uber, Pega, imgur, Pixable, Blackboard, Keboola, Avalara

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