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Apptio Cloudability vs BMC Helix Continuous Optimization comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 16, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Apptio Cloudability
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
1st
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.0
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
BMC Helix Continuous Optimi...
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
39th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure Capacity Planning (2nd), IT Operations Analytics (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Apptio Cloudability is 5.9%, down from 12.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BMC Helix Continuous Optimization is 1.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Apptio Cloudability5.9%
BMC Helix Continuous Optimization1.8%
Other92.3%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

KW
Cloud Platform Engineer at Treasury Wine Estates
Finops platform has uncovered waste, supports right-sizing, and improves contract negotiations
I think Apptio Cloudability is a really very good platform for costing. I do understand it can be cost-prohibitive to buy the license to use Apptio Cloudability because of the way it charges. If you are not a big enough company, I can understand that. Apptio Cloudability might want to look at costing models for smaller businesses that cannot afford Apptio Cloudability or Apptio Cloudability Premium. I believe Premium is about one hundred thousand dollars or so in US dollars, and Apptio Cloudability I believe is a little bit less than that. However, there are small businesses out there that will not be able to afford either option. I wonder if that is a market to target, to look at a smaller model of Apptio Cloudability or at least a smaller costing model that could help those businesses as well. The other thing is that there are just a few anomalies inside Apptio Cloudability that I think can definitely be improved. It seems a really small thing, but when you are using it, it can actually be quite a big thing. Since Turbonomic has been integrated with Apptio Cloudability, as good as that is to be able to get those different costing figures and larger savings, it does not give the ability to have an instant Jira ticket integration with the Turbonomic costings or the advanced costing, if you would call it, inside Apptio Cloudability Premium. In the basic costings, you can use Jira and you can open up a Jira ticket and you can have all this information straight from Apptio Cloudability straight in the Jira ticket, assign it to someone, and then someone is working on it. You cannot do that in Turbonomic at the moment. I am not really sure why. Obviously, there is some sort of development issue behind the scenes, I imagine, with the way that Turbonomic works compared to the basic costing. It would be a huge advantage to be able to do that, to just open a Jira ticket, have someone assigned to it, and then proceed forward. I definitely think they should look at that.
Appperf677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Performance Mnagement Specialist at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Enables us to right-size systems to free up resources, and identify performance problems down to the process level
Since I already have a sneak peek into the next releases, I'm very happy about what's going to be included. I would like to see continued support for the legacy parts of the tool, the old, seasoned parts that are very valuable to me. That is a message I continue to give to BMC: All the new stuff's great, but don't take away this really important stuff. That's my biggest fear, that I might lose some of my old functionality that is still extremely valuable. I want to make sure we don't lose any functionality, and that they just still keep delivering on what they're doing. I don't have anything more to ask than what they're offering.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"All the tagging and mapping, which helps to create some virtual tags are useful features."
"The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you."
"The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly."
"The support from IBM is fantastic"
"Apptio Cloudability is a fantastic tool to help FinOps teams and engineering teams focus on cost reduction, cost savings, measuring, displaying, and telling the story about their numbers."
"Our clients are now able to get a better insight into their AWS accounts."
"Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud."
"It justifies the cost and is worth it, and we loved the experience of purchasing this solution through AWS Marketplace as it is very intuitive and cost-efficient."
"We ingest a ton of business data. We are an insurance company and we have business data, like how many quotes are done an hour, and how many policies are sold per hour. The correlation engine in the new TrueSight Capacity Optimization components are wonderful. We can do correlation analysis over months of data, and then we run models to tell our business: 'If you do 1,000 more quotes an hour, we're going to have to upgrade, and we're going to need this much more hardware.'"
"We estimate that saved us close to $100,000 just by right-sizing the systems that were there."
"The most interesting feature is certainly the simulation of the load using different servers or different KPI parameters of the business."
"Workload characterization is super important because it lets us figure things out. Many people know, for example, that with Microsoft Word, Word.exe is the executable. Everybody knows their executable, but they don't always know what it does. It also launches other things. This tool has the ability and insight to track those things, and to know: "Oh, you wanted this executable, but this one started this, so you must want this, too." And it tells you what it had to add, what it was using or was spawning."
 

Cons

"Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers."
"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."
"Right now, I don't think that they do good predictions at all."
"Cloudability needs to improve on data collection from cloud sources."
"The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using."
"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 find that Apptio Cloudability is one of those things where I just poke around until I have what I am looking for. I would not say it is the most user-friendly system; there is a lot to it, so it can take some getting used to."
"Apptio Cloudability needs to evolve and develop much faster in comparison to competitors in the market."
"Some of the data management is painful. Some of the new features haven't been implemented in quite the way I would like to get to levels of detail. For example, Visualizer parser doesn't take everything it should out of the Visualizer files. We've had to put in a work-around, but the work-around is not as accurate as what's in the file."
"The memory management of Java application servers should be implemented to be able to size GC and footprint."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the license or the usage is a percentage of the top consumption. So it varies from year to year."
"Cloudability is a bit expensive."
"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."
"It justifies the cost and is worth it."
"Right now, the licensing structure is by server. Everybody is licensed somewhat differently, depending on how big they are, how many licenses they have."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
20%
Retailer
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Construction Company
11%
Healthcare Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise16
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was limited because it was done centrally by procurement.
What needs improvement with Cloudability?
I find that Apptio Cloudability is one of those things where I just poke around until I have what I am looking for. I would not say it is the most user-friendly system; there is a lot to it, so it ...
What is your primary use case for Cloudability?
My main use case for Apptio Cloudability is performing ad-hoc reports and monthly and quarterly reporting in Apptio BI, which help us to do number presentations with our large customers in our comp...
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BMC Capacity Optimization, TrueSight Capacity Optimization, BMC Helix Optimize, BMC Helix Continuous Optimization
 

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Sample Customers

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