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Azure Cost Management vs Densify comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

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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

Azure Cost Management
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
4th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Densify
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
16th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (11th), Cloud Management (27th), Virtualization Management Tools (8th), Cloud Analytics (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Azure Cost Management is 3.2%, down from 7.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Densify is 3.2%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Azure Cost Management3.2%
Densify3.2%
Other93.6%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2702517 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Database / Data Management Expert at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Transparency in cost estimation and budget maintenance is enhanced
At the beginning of the project, I estimate the cost and try to be transparent with the customer, letting them know the expected cost with a tolerance of plus or minus ten percent. If the requirement is clear, I estimate it for fifty to one hundred percent depending on their requirements. Any…
AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Optimized cloud costs and automated right‑sizing have reduced spend while reporting needs improvement
The best features Densify offers are actionable optimization recommendations, which tell you how to reduce costs while maintaining performance; the ML-powered predictive analytics feature, which considers historical patterns to provide recommendations; multi-cloud coverage for optimization across AWS, Azure, and GCP; and a solid balance between performance and cost. Out of those features, I find myself relying on actionable optimization recommendations and predictive analytics features the most because Densify goes one step beyond by providing recommendations considering historical patterns, especially for workloads that only spike during certain times of the month. Densify has positively impacted my organization by providing significant cost savings through right-sizing and eliminating inefficient resources, allowing faster decisions based on data, and reducing manual intervention for cloud operations, thus providing automation of basic cloud routines. I usually see a twenty-five to thirty percent cost saving in my customer's environment, and from a time-saving perspective, it has almost halved the time of the operations team.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is easy to log in, and everything is graphical so that you can build on the published resources."
"The solution helps us diagnose and understand why some resources cost more so that we can fine-tune and reduce the cost."
"The product has helped save costs for the company."
"The most valuable features of Azure Cost Management are the ability to set standards or tagging policies and initiatives. You can achieve higher cost optimization."
"The initial setup process is easy."
"I like the fact that you can set alerts on the predicted cost in Azure Cost Management."
"Microsoft Azure Cloud Cost Management is easy to use and we have a lot of insights about all of our goals."
"The most valuable feature is that our customers can see their consumption in real time."
"The solution's tech support is excellent."
"I would say that the initial thing is that it provides us with a technological basis to expand capacity management beyond Excel."
"The ability to increase server density inside of my environment, which has helped me drive reduction in costs."
"The Control Console provides a very easy to read dashboard of "too little/just right/too much" resources both for current data and on a historical or predictive basis."
"I usually see a twenty-five to thirty percent cost saving in my customer's environment, and from a time-saving perspective, it has almost halved the time of the operations team."
"Densify were deemed to be the best for us at the time and they still are, for now."
"The Densify Control Console, and Environment Status."
"Using the reports from Densify will provide us with the trusted advisor backing for our own purchase and provisioning decisions."
 

Cons

"We lack a resource and ID login."
"Optimization and scalability could be increased."
"I'd like to see improvements in tracking billing and costs. It would be helpful to have alerts generated by instance and location. We use the cloud for multiple programs, and it's difficult to segregate costs and get budgets from customers. We have to tag each instance, which is time-consuming. Automation and proactive alerts by instance or instance IDs would be beneficial."
"Adding a simple workflow automation capability would be helpful. In our HR, procurement, and finance departments, all of the processes are manual."
"For us, it only works for one provider. So we need to be more of a hybrid solution for any cloud."
"I would like to see better customization."
"The response time of customer support can be improved."
"The solution could use automatic emailing. That would help improve the product a lot, at least for our purposes."
"Unfortunately the tools and mechanisms which really came to maturity in the cloud, and were not mainstream on-premise, are still not implemented."
"Service management level integration is probably the biggest area for improvement."
"Some parts of the interface are rather complex and require a bit of time to navigate, but this has never stopped us as a Densify advisor is readily available to help with our "how to" queries."
"It seems that the mechanism for integration is, it goes so far but I think there could be some standard integration to normal remedy service now etc. I think that should be out of the box."
"Normalization of CPU utilization is required. At present, the data is available based on entitlement level."
"Some parts of the interface are rather complex and require a bit of time to navigate, but this has never stopped us as a Densify advisor is readily available to help with our "how to" queries."
"There are times when results are very slow when we search for servers."
"Initially we talked about some custom reporting, wherein our customer expected certain reports on a few areas, like how the storage is allocated, how the network performance is doing, and how the network utilization is happening for a virtual machine."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool's pricing a seven out of ten."
"Azure Cost Management is a free cost management tool."
"It's bundled in with the package. I have it as part of the package."
"I rate the price of Azure Cost Management an eight out of ten."
"Azure Cost Management comes as a part of other solutions. You need to pay as per your requirement based on the pay-as-you-go model."
"Customers do not need to pay for the product's license, and the product is free of cost."
"The subscription fees are primarily tailored to larger enterprises, potentially leaving smaller and medium-sized customers with limited options."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten - the price could be lower."
"Cost is always involved, but then I feel that this solution is better than other products that we have."
"Setup cost is negligible, as it scales fairly well."
"There was some sticker shock, as this is not just another software product to spit out graphs."
"Densify has licensing setup so you can collect data without licensing. It gives you the ability to collect on everything, then choose later what you would like to license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Construction Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Construction Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business11
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise33
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Cost Management?
The pricing part could be improved. I would rate it as six out of ten. It depends on the solution. We mostly pay for our licenses.
What needs improvement with Azure Cost Management?
There are areas in Azure Cost Management that could be improved; sometimes, as a start user or junior developer, if I try to understand which service consumed how much cost and look at different ch...
What is your primary use case for Azure Cost Management?
I use Azure Cost Management indirectly from Snowflake. Not all of the Azure stack is utilized, only some of it for the future.
What needs improvement with Densify?
Densify can be improved in a couple of areas: the learning curve for new users, where it feels like an advanced optimization tool that needs time for full leverage; enhancements in reporting and fi...
What is your primary use case for Densify?
My main use cases for Densify include cloud cost optimization, predictive resource sizing, assistance in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments, and reducing the manual analysis of the environme...
What advice do you have for others considering Densify?
My advice for others looking into using Densify is to focus on setting up governance policy early, integrate optimization results into your usual sprints, and train FinOps and engineering teams tog...
 

Also Known As

Microsoft Azure Cost Management, Cloudyn
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Sample Customers

Quixey, Infomedia, Panaya, Wix.com, Mirabeau, Mi9, GetTaxi, Outsmart Studios, Bownty, BlazeMeter: The Load Testing Cloud, Irdeto, Effective Measure, Totango, Nextdoor, BranchOut, The BioTeam, Evolven, Netotiate, ClickSoftware
AIG, Bank of America, Cigna, Citi
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