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Apptio Costing vs CloudCheckr comparison

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.3
Apptio Costing delivers significant ROI by enhancing IT cost transparency, automating tasks, and reducing costs by up to 32%.
Sentiment score
5.4
CloudCheckr users saw substantial ROI via cost savings, improved efficiency, and reduced manual tasks, although some await ROI.
Making decisions behind tech investments is easier with the budgeting tool Apptio Costing provides.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
Because we have detailed visibility and can monitor and report matters faster, we have seen a return on investment by 30%.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
After implementing Apptio Costing, they avoid overspending and have clarity on their spending, which leads to time saved from data handling and fewer employees needed to run the show since tasks are automated.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
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
I've seen a return on investment, as the savings are concrete, measurable, and they show up directly in the AWS bill.
Top Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.4
Apptio Costing's customer service is praised for responsiveness and 24/7 availability, though complex case handling needs improvement.
Sentiment score
5.3
CloudCheckr support is generally praised for responsiveness, though some users experienced challenges requiring escalation for technical assistance.
Within two hours or less, I get an ETA, and I am updated about the progress, ensuring flawless communication.
TBM/Apptio Implementation Specialist at Infosys
The customer support is professional and responsive
Project Manager at Flextronics
They are very responsive, respond to questions on time, and provide solutions.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
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
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Apptio Costing is scalable and adaptable, effectively supporting growing organizations and complex environments without downtime.
Sentiment score
7.6
CloudCheckr excels in scalability across cloud environments, supporting multiple users, though it faces challenges with large data volumes.
As the organization grows, the cost model can also evolve by adding new data sources, allocation rules, and reporting requirements, making it one of its strengths.
SAM Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Apptio Costing's scalability is very good as it grows with my organization's needs.
Team Lead at UST Global
Apptio Costing is scalable; it grows with you when your product grows and they do not hike prices.
DevOps Engineer at ZuriChat
If tomorrow I were to contract AWS or Google Cloud Services, I could manage them from the same place.
Directo de TI at Instituto de Innovación Ciencia y Empresa
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
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.8
Users express satisfaction with Apptio Costing's reliability, citing its stable performance and minimal downtime as key strengths.
Sentiment score
7.8
CloudCheckr is highly stable and reliable, with minor performance issues, receiving positive user feedback for cloud optimization.
Apptio Costing is stable; we have not seen any downtime.
Founder at AppNomu SalesQ
I have not experienced any significant downtime that impacted business operations.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Apptio Costing is very stable, and I have not experienced any downtime or lagging.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
CloudCheckr is stable and rock solid.
Top Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Apptio Costing needs enhanced AI, UI, dashboard features, integration ease, and efficiency in performance and reporting functionalities.
CloudCheckr's Azure and Google Cloud integration is slow and complex, with limited customization and reporting, hindering usability and automation.
It is worth mentioning that Apptio Costing does not have historical balance sheets.
Team Lead at UST Global
The user interface should be improved to be more user-friendly, easy to navigate, and customizable.
Project Manager at Flextronics
The UI should be more user-friendly and intuitive, as drilling down into budget line items in planning takes time and multiple clicks.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
Financial management is not a technically savvy environment; they are an accounting department, so they need that footprint and that ease of transition to build out their dashboards effectively without having to run into highly technical evolutionary actions that we see when we work with CloudCheckr.
DSRE Director Of Dev Ops/Operations (Management Executive) at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
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
 

Setup Cost

Apptio Costing offers a cost-effective ITFM solution with higher licensing costs but worthwhile quality and straightforward setup.
CloudCheckr offers competitive, consumption-based pricing aligning with industry standards, with users noting efficiency and justified substantial savings.
The license cost is only one part of the overall cost, but organizations also need to consider initial implementation efforts, including data integration, cost model design, configuration, testing, and potential external consulting services, which we relied on.
SAM Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
However, the license cost is higher compared to other tools, but if quality is desired, one must be willing to spend more; cheap solutions yield cheap responses.
TBM/Apptio Implementation Specialist at Infosys
I found it to be very cost-effective and easy to set up.
Project Manager at Flextronics
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
I won't pretend it's cheap, but we've saved multiples of what we pay for it, so the conversation with finance is straightforward.
Top Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

Apptio Costing reduces ownership costs with analytics, dashboards, and tools for financial planning, reporting, and cloud integration.
CloudCheckr simplifies integration with AWS, Azure, and GCP, enhancing efficiency and cost savings through automation and reporting.
Apptio Costing provides IT leaders with operational details tied to the financials, indicating how much we are spending on projects versus what we think we are spending.
Project Manager at Flextronics
Apptio Costing has impacted my organization positively because everything with Apptio Costing has been positive, and one thing is that it is very easy to use.
Senior Software Engineer at Total Gas & Power Limited
Planning, budget, and forecasting in Apptio Costing has made the biggest difference for my team, as it helps with annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and capital project tracking.
Product Manager at Capgemini
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
As a service provider, security is our main point.
Consultant at Silk Engineering
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
 

Categories and Ranking

Apptio Costing
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
7th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
CloudCheckr
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
12th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (9th), Managed Cloud Services (5th), AI Observability (23rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Apptio Costing is 1.2%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudCheckr is 3.2%, down from 3.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Apptio Costing1.2%
CloudCheckr3.2%
Other95.6%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Prasanna Ravindran - PeerSpot reviewer
TBM/Apptio Implementation Specialist at Infosys
Data-driven costing has transformed budgeting and now provides clear ownership across services
Apptio Costing has some flaws; I cannot say it is perfect. It has some dependency in terms of time-consuming processes, and at times I need to wait for a set of calculations to complete, which falls on the TBM's shoulders to design the configuration to reduce calculation time. There are multiple measures, and Apptio's product developers propose options to reduce stage calculation time that I as a TBM need to follow. For example, I should avoid nested statements and more than one lookup in a single formula step during configuration. If data quality is poor, I face limitations, and the wait time is a drawback identified since IBM's acquisition of Apptio. They are addressing it based on feedback from clients using Apptio Costing. As of today, the AI capabilities within Apptio Costing are very limited. They have a roadmap and plan to enhance AI capabilities by the end of 2027. Recently, they initiated a chatbot using natural language processing options, which allows users to interact with Apptio Costing directly without depending on reports, making it easier to have one-to-one conversations. This is a good feature that IBM has recently implemented within the Cost Transparency module, and I am still expecting more from them.
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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
56%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Construction Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise16
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apptio Costing?
It is a great experience regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Apptio's sales team was amazing with us, very straightforward and concise with all details. It is quite reasonable for an ente...
What needs improvement with Apptio Costing?
I see some areas where Apptio Costing could be improved. For the initial setup and configuration, while the platform is very powerful, building and maintaining a complex cost model always requires ...
What is your primary use case for Apptio Costing?
Apptio Costing's main use case for our customers is FinOps, for example, for those using Azure. The idea is to help them better monitor any costs related to cloud consumption and see everything rel...
What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?
Some limitations are faced sometimes depending on the dependency, service availability, or any service limitation. I think this is the negative impact. I would love to know about future updates and...
What is your primary use case for CloudCheckr ?
We perform many services and professional services for our clients using CloudCheckr. Professional services include one-time scope locked services, where we deploy the infrastructure or whatever th...
 

Also Known As

Apptio Costing and Planing
CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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Accenture, Logitech, Ingram, Cloudar, Infor, DXC, Cornell University, DLT, Lumen, Lightstream, Choice Hotels, B-Tech, SmileShark, PTP, Explicity, JCH Technology, Siemens Mobility
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