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Flexera Cloud Cost Management vs IBM Turbonomic comparison

 

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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

Flexera Cloud Cost Management
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
21st
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
205
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (3rd), Cloud Management (4th), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), IT Financial Management (1st), IT Operations Analytics (10th), Cloud Analytics (1st), AIOps (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Flexera Cloud Cost Management is 1.5%, down from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 5.9%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Turbonomic5.9%
Flexera Cloud Cost Management1.5%
Other92.6%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

SV
Senior Cloud Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Automated governance has eliminated shadow spend and now provides clear multi-cloud accountability
Flexera Cloud Cost Management could improve by modernizing the user experience, as many users find the interface feels a bit dated compared to cloud-native competitors such as Vantage or CloudHealth. Another suggestion is to deepen the AI-driven auto-remediation; Flexera Cloud Cost Management is excellent at providing recommendations, but it still requires a manual click to approve or a custom script to execute an action. I suggest simplifying Flexera Cloud Cost Management SaaS platform because Flexera Cloud Cost Management's special sauce is software asset management. Integrating those on-prem licenses with cloud usage can still be complex to set up for a user.
reviewer1446966 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution reduced our operational expenditures and is able to identify points before we even noticed them
The management interface seems to be designed for high-resolution screens. Somebody with a smaller-resolution screen might not like the web interface. I run a 4K monitor on it, so everything fits on the screen. With a lower resolution like 1080, you need to scroll a lot. Everything is in smaller windows. It doesn't seem to be designed for smaller screens. When I change the resolution to 1080, I only see half of what I would on my big 4K monitor. It would be annoying to have to scroll to see the flow chart. They have a flow chart that goes top to bottom like a tree. On a lower resolution, it might be nice if that scrolls horizontally because it's long, narrow, and tall. It's only three icons wide, but it's 15 icons tall. I think it would be helpful to have the ability to change that for a smaller screen and customize the widget.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Flexera Cloud Cost Management provided complete visibility across our multi-cloud footprint, allowing us to identify zombie resources, idle dev environments, and unattached storage, resulting in an immediate fifteen to twenty percent reduction in monthly waste simply by cleaning up what we were not using."
"Flexera Cloud Cost Management has helped my organization save money by 20% to 30%, as previously mentioned."
"Flexera Cloud Cost Management provides real-time live data that allows us to see realistic projections based on trends we anticipate, showing where we could possibly end off by year-end."
"Great product! We were able to correctly size our VMs giving back CPU, memory, and storage capacity to be used in other projects."
"The Turbonomic solution works/performs as advertised and automatically removes a large workload in the day to day care of my virtual environment."
"With this product, the admin IT takes time to do other kind of jobs and not to resolve problems."
"Allowing Turbonomic to take over for vCenter DRS has shown a marked decrease in vMotion of virtual machines to keep our cluster resources balanced."
"Turbonomic has been excellent in keeping us running smoothly."
"VMTurbo Operations Manager has given myself and my staff more time to focus on other projects and tasks as well as improved overall performance of the virtual environment."
"The product has worked great; it has become a set and forget tool for us which is a good thing."
"We have saved money on licensing and availability of our applications."
 

Cons

"While the solution works well, perhaps because we are still in the early stages of becoming familiar with the technology, I would appreciate improvements in the SaaS environment."
"Flexera Cloud Cost Management could improve by modernizing the user experience, as many users find the interface feels a bit dated compared to cloud-native competitors such as Vantage or CloudHealth."
"Flexera Cloud Cost Management can be improved by developing a normal chat interface or application where non-technical users do not have to navigate through Flexera API application or website."
"GUI can be more user friendly."
"The product needs tighter integration points with storage vendors, the mainstream top 5-6 are added but it would be nice to see more."
"GUI interface is not as slick as VMware."
"The reporting module has very big potential, but really lacks predefined reports for all kinds of purposes."
"Training was a bit disjointed at first, but the second session was improved."
"This is a very powerful tool that we don't use to its fullest, mostly due to the GUI."
"GUI is ugly."
"Regular upgrades and patching requires a period of getting used to the new environment before getting hands-on with the tool."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I consider the pricing to be high."
"The pricing is in line with the other solutions that we have. It's not a bargain software, nor is it overly expensive."
"Everybody tells me the pricing is high. But the ROIs are great."
"Licensing is per socket, so load up on the cores rather than a lot of lower core CPUs."
"Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced."
"Contact the Turbonomic sales team, explain your needs and what you're looking to monitor. They will get a pre-sales SE on the phone and together work up a very accurate quote."
"What I can advise is to trial the product, taking advantage of the Turbonomic pre-sales implemention support and kickstart training."
"When we have expanded our licensing, it has always been easy to make an ROI-based decision. So, it's reasonably priced. We would like to have it cheaper, but we get more benefit from it than we pay for it. At the end of the day, that's all you can hope for."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
20%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Flexera Cloud Cost Management?
The pricing conversation was above my level of involvement. I remember briefly discussing the cost and had an understanding that there would be an expense associated with upgrading from the older v...
What needs improvement with Flexera Cloud Cost Management?
While the solution works well, perhaps because we are still in the early stages of becoming familiar with the technology, I would appreciate improvements in the SaaS environment. Specifically, I wo...
What is your primary use case for Flexera Cloud Cost Management?
Flexera Cloud Cost Management enables us to view our costs, identify areas of cost avoidance or savings, and assists us with budgeting. We can identify duplication in capability and recognize insta...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?
It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is set as a percentage of the consumption of some of our customers' services. The ...
What needs improvement with Turbonomic?
The implementation could be enhanced.
What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?
We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting. This helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single d...
 

Also Known As

RightScale Optima
Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
 

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Sample Customers

Telstra
IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.
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