Cloudability vs North Cloud comparison

Apptio and North Cloud are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Apptio is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.7, while North Cloud is ranked #7 with an average rating of 10.0. Apptio holds a 7.1% mindshare in CCM, compared to North Cloud’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 77% of Apptio users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of North Cloud users who would recommend it.

Cloudability

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77% willing to recommend

North Cloud

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107 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Cloudability and North Cloud 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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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

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

North Cloud

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

7th

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

3.9

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 North Cloud is 0.7%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cloudability	7.1%
North Cloud	0.7%
Other	92.2%

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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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Evan Kesten

CTO & Co-Founder at Cabinet

Need broader cloud savings but have reduced compute costs and extended financial runway

I have found the integration very seamless and easy. The best features North Cloud offers are easy onboarding integration and a non-invasive business model. I find the easy onboarding integration and non-invasive business model to be the best features because we were able to reduce spend on our AWS bill without using any internal employee hours and without worrying about any complicated account changes.

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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

"The pricing isn't too expensive."

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

"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 Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management."

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

"Transparency and visibility are the key features."

"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 tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly."

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

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"North has been an excellent partner in managing our AWS costs."

"North Cloud has positively impacted my organization by reducing our AWS bill by 15%."

"North Cloud was able to get us access to savings plans that cut approximately 20% from our monthly AWS costs."

"North Cloud has been a great partner in helping us navigate cloud cost savings."

Cons

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

More Cloudability cons

"I think North Cloud could be improved with additional savings for more AWS services."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Cloudability is a bit expensive."

"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."

"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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

11%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
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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What needs improvement with North Cloud?

North recently added support for database reservations, which would have been next on my wish list. I look forward to their menu expanding as AWS adds additional savings vehicles.

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What is your primary use case for North Cloud?

The use case is Cost Management.

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What advice do you have for others considering North Cloud?

The team is extremely helpful and communicative. Immediately upon working with them, they set up a Slack connect channel and give you a live line of communication with someone in their engineering ...

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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.

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