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Apptio Cloudability vs Cloud8 Platform comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 16, 2026

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

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
Cloud8 Platform
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
35th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
2.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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 Cloud8 Platform is 0.5%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Apptio Cloudability5.9%
Cloud8 Platform0.5%
Other93.6%
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.
Dilipkumar Bondugula - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Centralized governance has simplified multi-cloud management and improves compliance monitoring
Cloud8 Platform does not have a lot of improvement areas, but I have a positive experience with it, and one area of improvement would be to provide more customizable dashboards and reporting options so teams can tailor the platform to their specific operational needs. I would also like to see more AI-driven recommendations for cost optimization, security, and compliance, along with deeper integrations with more DevOps and ITSM tools. As an example, I would like to see deeper integrations with tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Slack. It would be useful if Cloud8 Platform could automate ticket creation and remediation workflows when it detects compliance or configuration issues. Additionally, expanding APIs and providing more out-of-the-box automation templates would make it easier to integrate Cloud8 Platform into existing DevOps workflows and reduce manual effort.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We have probably easily saved around $400,000 USD a year."
"Cloudability takes care of identifying and managing the cloud."
"The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you."
"The pricing isn't too expensive."
"The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly."
"If you are looking for a seamless, simple to use, and in-depth cloud billing analysis tool, Cloudability serves all these purposes."
"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."
"It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage."
"Cloud8 delivered real savings of 16.5% within 45 days, with zero downtime, and supported an architecture redesign."
"Overall, these features help our team work more efficiently and maintain a reliable cloud environment."
 

Cons

"In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources."
"They can improve the custom range of the network."
"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."
"The dashboard needs to include more graphs per team to show what individual teams are spending in a given time period."
"We would like them to have a linear regression, so we can be predictive for budgets, allocations, and the year's follow ups. We also want to have a longer window of analytics with better certainty that our workload will fit the model, not just in a two week window."
"Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers."
"There is always room for improvement in education and training."
"I would improve the integration, or the preparation of the integration, for a complex environment."
"I would like to see integration with Datadog for billing and cost analytics."
"Cloud8 Platform does not have a lot of improvement areas, but I have a positive experience with it, and one area of improvement would be to provide more customizable dashboards and reporting options so teams can tailor the platform to their specific operational needs."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"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
20%
Retailer
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
6%
Construction Company
45%
Comms Service Provider
19%
Healthcare Company
11%
Transportation Company
4%
 

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...
What needs improvement with Cloud8 Platform?
Cloud8 Platform does not have a lot of improvement areas, but I have a positive experience with it, and one area of improvement would be to provide more customizable dashboards and reporting option...
What is your primary use case for Cloud8 Platform?
My use cases of Cloud8 Platform would be cloud infrastructure management and governance. I use it mainly to provision and manage cloud resources, monitor infrastructure health, track costs, and ens...
 

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Sample Customers

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