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CloudCheckr vs Spot by Flexera comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 19, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.9
CloudCheckr CMx High Security users saw a 25% cost reduction and improved operations with automated invoicing benefits.
Sentiment score
7.9
Spot by Flexera cut compute costs by 75%, saved over 500,000 euros annually, and improved flexibility and operations.
It has reduced manual efforts that would otherwise be spent checking where spending is occurring and ensuring all teams use resources correctly.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
I have seen a return on investment of 100%, with significant cost avoidance and measurable savings within the first few months of deployment.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
By using Spot by Flexera across a year, we were able to save more than 500,000 euros.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Our technology predicts demand, selects the cheapest instance mix, sizes the workloads appropriately, and scales it automatically based on policy, resulting in significant savings by reducing manual work and enhancing our flexibility, which has helped accelerate our deployments.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I cannot share the exact number, but I can share the figure that my EC2 and EKS compute cost reduced by around 65 to 75% with Spot.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Ingram's team experienced effective support overall but noted delays and inadequacies in handling complex technical issues.
Sentiment score
8.4
Spot by Flexera provides responsive and effective customer service, receiving high ratings for their excellent technical support.
The additional support ended up taking longer than expected, with responses that did not meet our need for detailed and technical assistance.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Sometimes support needs to be reached, but they are very responsive and supportive.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
The customer support for CloudCheckr is fantastic.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would rate the customer support a nine out of ten.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not have to use it many times, but the few times that we did use it, it was very fast and very useful.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
CloudCheckr is highly scalable, efficiently managing multiple accounts and environments for enterprises, despite occasional performance issues with large data volumes.
Sentiment score
7.6
Spot by Flexera is scalable, adaptable, and open-source, effectively managing AWS expansions and connecting diverse data sources.
It scales well for MSPs and large enterprises, allowing for management of hundreds of accounts and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
It is also a very easy tool to connect to different data sources and different servers since it is open source.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Spot's scalability is quite good, and it can be expanded to multiple environments.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
CloudCheckr is highly rated for stability, with users noting reliable performance and minimal issues, making it a robust choice.
Sentiment score
6.3
Spot by Flexera is stable but faces data update delays, requiring manual IT asset corrections and user-reported server discrepancies.
In Spot by Flexera, we could see both computers, the old and the new one, but the system was not recognizing that the old one was no longer being used.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

CloudCheckr requires better pricing clarity, onboarding, performance with large data sets, UI customization, security features, and third-party integrations.
Spot by Flexera could improve through storage cost optimization, better integrations, enhanced UI guidance, timely updates, and Kubernetes insights.
CloudCheckr is a powerful and feature-rich tool with abundant metrics.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Another area is drift analysis; there have been complaints about tracking optimization opportunities, such as how to track opportunities identified in January and whether they were resolved in February.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
An area where CloudCheckr can be improved is pricing.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Continuously making advancements based on customer feedback.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Spot could be improved by adding features that help identify data to optimize storage costs by detecting datasets within our environment based on criteria such as age and usage.
AVP DevOps and Product Support at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
More guided onboarding would help teams adopt advanced features faster.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
 

Setup Cost

CloudCheckr pricing is competitive, usage-based, and offers good value, with enterprises and providers appreciating its cost-effectiveness.
Users praise Spot by Flexera's pricing for its competitiveness and convenience, rating it highly against market alternatives.
Overall, the pricing was quite convenient and represented good value for money.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Pricing is feature-tiered under the MSP licensing, and I would say the pricing was quite competitive and fair.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing is reasonable and convenient, and the value it offers is completely in line with what I am spending.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
I was aware of different pricing, setup costs, and licensing across the company.
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

CloudCheckr offers cost-saving optimization, multi-cloud management, and financial alignment with ease of use for AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Spot by Flexera optimizes cloud costs, manages resources efficiently, and integrates with AWS, improving scalability and decision-making with AI.
The cost visibility and reporting are really valuable, and the dashboard is informative and enables good decision-making.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
What makes CloudCheckr easy for me to use is its intuitive interface.
Director, Trust Operations Analytics at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The best features CloudCheckr offers include out-of-the-box security and compliance check features that provide over 35 different types of compliance checks at no cost, best practice checks, and alerts.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Spot's automated cost optimization works by continuously analyzing the workload and applying policies to minimize cloud spend without sacrificing performance.
Global Hyperscaler Alliances Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The fact that it can mix dozens of instance families dynamically is something which the AWS native autoscalers simply cannot do.
Dev Ops Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
Spot helps us detect such changes within AWS at least one hour prior, allowing us to have a mitigation plan in place and host other servers within the same setup to avoid impacting the application.
AVP DevOps and Product Support at a recruiting/HR firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

CloudCheckr
Ranking in Cloud Management
17th
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
13th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Managed Cloud Services (6th), AI Observability (26th)
Spot by Flexera
Ranking in Cloud Management
19th
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Server Virtualization Software (14th), Cloud Operations Analytics (1st), Cloud Analytics (3rd), Compute Service (9th), Containers as a Service (CaaS) (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of CloudCheckr is 2.3%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Spot by Flexera is 2.0%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CloudCheckr2.3%
Spot by Flexera2.0%
Other95.7%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized cloud costs have boosted savings while reporting and user experience still need work
The best features CloudCheckr offers include out-of-the-box security and compliance check features that provide over 35 different types of compliance checks at no cost, best practice checks, and alerts. Another valuable feature is the multi-cloud overview, providing unified reporting across AWS and Azure while allowing us to create different types of dashboards based on who logs into the platform. Additionally, from an MSP standpoint, there is good ease of deployment, especially the billing and chargeback functionality for a reseller or managed services provider. CloudCheckr has positively impacted my organization by helping us manage multiple customers and tens of thousands of resources while retaining performance and visibility due to its multi-cloud support. We do not have to worry about jumping from one platform to another, and the better MSP support is beneficial from a billing and chargeback automation standpoint. The integration in compliance helps identify missing areas within our customer environments and improves them. On average, it has helped us provide approximately 15 to 20% savings through right-sizing or idle resource elimination. These are some of the immediate cost savings our customers have experienced after implementing recommendations from the tool.
Bruna Müller - PeerSpot reviewer
License manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Centralized asset data has transformed how we manage licenses and make cost-saving decisions
One problem that we faced using Spot by Flexera is that in certain servers, the data was not being updated correctly, and we had a certain delay. For example, someone was using a computer, and then this user received a new one. In Spot by Flexera, we could see both computers, the old and the new one, but the system was not recognizing that the old one was no longer being used. We had a couple of IT assets that were not being used, and we had this information in our internal servers, but Spot by Flexera was not able to update on time. We had to fix this information manually.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?
Pricing is feature-tiered under the MSP licensing, and I would say the pricing was quite competitive and fair. It was neither inexpensive nor too costly compared to competition, yet it provides goo...
What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?
Areas where CloudCheckr can be improved include simplifying the user experience, as some areas seem complex to my teammates, who felt overwhelmed by the many dashboards available. Another area is d...
What is your primary use case for CloudCheckr ?
My main use cases for CloudCheckr include cloud cost visibility and optimization, identifying idle resources, right-sizing, and cost trends. I also use it from a cloud governance perspective, for s...
What needs improvement with Spot Ocean?
One problem that we faced using Spot by Flexera is that in certain servers, the data was not being updated correctly, and we had a certain delay. For example, someone was using a computer, and then...
What is your primary use case for Spot Ocean?
For the past two years, I have been developing a project to implement Spot by Flexera as a software asset management tool. It is used to manage all the IT assets and software licenses within all th...
What advice do you have for others considering Spot Ocean?
The interface of Spot by Flexera was very simple to use. Spot by Flexera Academy had lots of important information that made the usage even easier. In general, I do not think there are any addition...
 

Also Known As

CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP
Spot Ocean, Spot Elastigroup, Spot Eco
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Accenture, Logitech, Ingram, Cloudar, Infor, DXC, Cornell University, DLT, Lumen, Lightstream, Choice Hotels, B-Tech, SmileShark, PTP, Explicity, JCH Technology, Siemens Mobility
Freshworks, Zalando, Red Spark, News, Trax, ETAS, Demandbase, BeesWa, Duolingo, intel, IBM, N26, Wix, EyeEm, moovit, SAMSUNG, News UK, ticketmaster
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