Cloudability vs IBM Kubecost comparison

Cloudability and IBM Kubecost are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Cloudability is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.9, while IBM Kubecost is ranked #29. Cloudability holds a 6.7% mindshare in CCM, compared to IBM Kubecost’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 78% of Cloudability users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM Kubecost users who would recommend it.

Cloudability

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78% willing to recommend

IBM Kubecost

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Cloudability and IBM Kubecost based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Cloud Cost Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudability

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

3rd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Kubecost

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

29th

Average Rating

9.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Cloudability is 6.7%, down from 13.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Kubecost is 2.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cloudability	6.7%
IBM Kubecost	2.5%
Other	90.8%

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reviewer2795433

Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Gained multi-cloud cost visibility and have optimized spend with detailed reports and rightsizing

The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using. IBM, the company that runs Cloudability, released the Groups feature back in the summer of 2025. While Groups can be used in some parts of the tool, it can't be used across the entire tool. I've found that Groups is basically unusable because if it can't be used everywhere, you would have to run both group-based access control and direct user-based access control at the same time, which doesn't make any sense. The Groups feature has improved over time, but it's still not something we feel we can use on an everyday basis, so the IAM section remains an issue right now. Most of the tool is very well-functioning and developed, and that's the only real improvement area that we've seen.

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DIRK UYTTERHOEVEN

Senior Enterprise Architect at DV Consulting

Identifies and eliminates overprovisioning of expensive resources like storage, highly scalable and offers performance

I like the overall product because I can select what monitoring should be enabled and whatnot. In our case, we really focus on performance because it's clear that the price is related to most performance setups. So the more performance, the more expensive. So we look into the performance that the customer needs, and then based upon that feedback from the remote control, we change the parameters. And even the end user will not notice it is not using it, so we just make money without any impact on the end users.

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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

"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."

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

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

"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 positively impacts my organization by allowing for greater cost observability, which then drives better spending decisions and reduces costs."

"The support from IBM is fantastic"

"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."

More Cloudability pros

"The price is reasonable, considering the value it delivers."

"I mostly like the dashboards."

"It offers a detailed examination of your cluster, including the types of instances utilized, allocated CPU and RAM, and resource distribution for specific applications."

Cons

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

"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."

"In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources."

"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."

"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 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."

"The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using."

More Cloudability cons

"The integration with other solutions could be improved."

"Faster monitoring could potentially improve overall stability in the production environment."

"There is a significant potential for enhancing it through the incorporation of advanced technologies like AI and generative AI."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

"It justifies the cost and is worth it."

"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."

"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 cost is cheap. Kubecost has an open-source core."

"The real savings come from using Kubecost features like autoscaling and serverless functions to optimize your resource usage. If you treat it like a data center migration without fine-tuning, it might cost more."

"The cost of the tool may seem nominal compared to the potential savings in infrastructure expenses."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

22%

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Retailer

Manufacturing Company

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	13

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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?

Pricing and setup cost for Cloudability are good. Compared to the rest of the industry, they may be a little more expensive than some other FinOps tools, but that's to be expected because they have...

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Kubecost - Amazon EKS cost monitoring

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

Kubecost provides real-time cost visibility and insights for teams using Kubernetes, helping you continuously reduce your cloud costs.
Breakdown costs by any Kubernetes concepts, including deployment, service, namespace label, and more. View costs across multiple clusters in a single view or via a single API endpoint.
Receive dynamic recommendations for reducing spend without sacrificing performance. Prioritize key infrastructure or application changes for improving resource efficiency and reliability.
Quickly catch cost overruns and infrastructure outage risks before they become a problem with real-time notifications. Preserve engineering workflows by integrating with tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack.

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

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