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MetricStream vs Stacklet 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

MetricStream
Ranking in IT Governance
2nd
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Continuous Controls Monitoring (2nd), GRC (2nd), IT Vendor Risk Management (4th)
Stacklet
Ranking in IT Governance
10th
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Governance category, the mindshare of MetricStream is 15.3%, down from 23.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Stacklet is 0.9%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Governance Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
MetricStream15.3%
Stacklet0.9%
Other83.8%
IT Governance
 

Featured Reviews

CP
Senior GRC Analyst at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Automated workflows have reduced manual follow-ups and improve third-party risk oversight
MetricStream's best features include its ease of use, compliance program, TPRM, audit management, and implementation effort. It effectively handles large data volumes and provides good workflow capabilities with decent reporting flexibility and a better user interface. MetricStream impacts the organization by reducing follow-ups through reminder settings during questionnaire assignments. It automatically sends reminders based on set reminders, fostering trust when configured with the organization's email domain. Metrics improvements like operational efficiency, centralized GRC management, enhanced risk visibility, streamlined compliance, reduced manual efforts, enhanced third-party risk monitoring, improved decision-making with real-time dashboards, and risk analytics follow from automated workflows and issue tracking.
Faheem-Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Platform Engineer at Tapestry
Centralized multi-account cost control has improved governance but still needs better savings insight
The feature I appreciate the most about Stacklet is the multi-account policy orchestration, which is very valuable because while Cloud Custodian is completely open source and anyone can use it, managing more than 5 to 20 accounts with it can be difficult. Another feature I appreciate is the policy approval workflows, which are production critical, enabling us to define actions to terminate or tag EC2 instances effectively. When it comes to Stacklet's automated remediation, everything Stacklet does could be accomplished with manual steps; however, the added action capability from the clicks makes it really helpful. Yet, there were some challenges, such as not being able to identify how much we were saving from a policy implemented across different accounts.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"MetricStream is something like an all-in-one solution where I do not need to write scripts or conduct audits."
"MetricStream was truly beneficial, easing the lives of everyone, including auditors and auditees, reinforcing its overall usefulness."
"MetricStream positively impacts our organization significantly by saving costs and enhancing our risk and compliance maturity."
"Since implementing MetricStream, audit teams have shaved about two weeks off of annual planning across various teams, allowing audit departments of about 140 auditors across maybe 10 teams to squeeze in 10 extra audits, one audit per each team, if not additional testing."
"It has good features and good functionality, and our customers feel there is a lot of merit in that."
"For our client, MetricStream made the audits incredibly efficient, and in real time, I could provide the status of the audit to stakeholders, indicating which controls had deviations, which control was pending, and who it was pending on."
"MetricStream definitely impacts my organization positively because it is very useful and offers low-code utilities to configure all components, allowing team members to complete tasks quickly."
"MetricStream's best features include its ease of use, compliance program, TPRM, audit management, and implementation effort, and it delivers strong ROI as an enterprise-wide GRC platform with value realized through automation, reduced compliance effort, improved visibility, and efficient auditing."
"We used Stacklet for cloud optimizations and were able to save around 40,000 US dollars per annum."
"In a nutshell, we were able to save around $40,000 USD per annum."
 

Cons

"The support part is terrible, rating about one out of ten."
"MetricStream is a very costly application; we cannot save money."
"MetricStream at that point did not have a template, and I had to build the entire SOX 404 IT general controls testing framework myself."
"I would like to see out-of-the-box integration with more security, it would be helpful."
"From my standpoint, MetricStream is a bit costly. We spend a significant amount of money for the product, and I cannot disclose specifics due to confidentiality."
"Currently, I believe MetricStream has sufficient functionality, but for the Indian banking sector, the UI and overall complexity could be improved, as many Indian banks require a simplified UI."
"MetricStream's scalability is adaptable, though the biggest issue I have encountered with clients has been around upgrades that require re-implementing customizations to the out-of-box solutions after significant upgrades."
"We would like to have more dashboards and reports, such as geographical and trend reports in the next version. Also, an improvement in the mobile version would be helpful."
"Yet, there were some challenges, such as not being able to identify how much we were saving from a policy implemented across different accounts."
"One area for improvement is visual policy builders."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They are flexible in terms of customers' needs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Healthcare Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Real Estate/Law Firm
9%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise7
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with MetricStream?
I find MetricStream not user-friendly because while using it, it is very critical. It is not designed as a user-friendly app. We cannot understand the Indian English also. MetricStream needs to be ...
What is your primary use case for MetricStream?
My main use case for MetricStream involves the change control module, deviation module, and investigation modules. In the pharmaceutical organization I work in, for any change in procedure, we can ...
What advice do you have for others considering MetricStream?
My advice to others looking into using MetricStream is that it is not a user-friendly application. I would rate MetricStream a three out of ten because it was not troubleshooting the issue. Due to ...
What needs improvement with Stacklet?
One area for improvement is visual policy builders. Stacklet features natural language query tools, but newer users face a steep learning curve when building complex multi-step automated remediatio...
What is your primary use case for Stacklet?
I used Stacklet during my experience at Xgrid, particularly in the last year when we were optimizing cloud costs for SleepIQ Tech for different clients. One thing we were proud of was the Cloud Cus...
What advice do you have for others considering Stacklet?
If you want to exactly govern your cloud, then you should go towards Stacklet. It does not only help in saving costs, it helps in governance as well. It shows how you should organize resources, all...
 

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Sample Customers

Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago, ACCO Brands Corporation, AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, AIB International, Associated Banc-Corp, BAE Systems, Barclaycard, Dell Inc, DIRECTV, Energizer, Fresenius Kabi, Hasbro, Goodyear, HudsonCity Savings Bank, Infigen Energy, Kaydon, Leroy Merlin, Mountry Financial Corp., Nicholas Piramal, Pepco, Pfizer, Societe Generale, Whitney Bank
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