Cloudability vs PerfectScale comparison

Apptio and PerfectScale are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Apptio is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.7, while PerfectScale is ranked #22 with an average rating of 9.3. Apptio holds a 7.1% mindshare in CCM, compared to PerfectScale’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 77% of Apptio users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of PerfectScale users who would recommend it.

Cloudability

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77% willing to recommend

PerfectScale

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130 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Cloudability and PerfectScale 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

PerfectScale

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

22nd

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

1.7

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 PerfectScale is 1.0%, 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%
PerfectScale	1.0%
Other	91.9%

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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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reviewer2750058

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.

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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."

"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."

"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"

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

"The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you."

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

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

More Cloudability pros

"The cluster and workload autoscaler gives us the ability to have control over all the workloads' resources instead of managing them one by one."

"Automated resource optimization using different policies based on the environment enabled the organization to achieve infrastructure cost savings."

"PerfectScale made our Kubernetes optimization effortless; it found wasted resources, lowered our cloud costs, and improved performance almost instantly."

Cons

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

More Cloudability cons

"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 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."

"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."

"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

Insurance Company

69%

Healthcare Company

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PerfectScale?

The pricing is good, and the team is really helpful.

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What needs improvement with PerfectScale?

With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition.

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What is your primary use case for PerfectScale?

Kubernetes Optimisation

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

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