Cloudability vs Finout comparison

Apptio and Finout are both solutions in the Cloud Cost Management category. Apptio is ranked #3 with an average rating of 7.7, while Finout is ranked #37. Apptio holds a 7.1% mindshare in CCM, compared to Finout’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 78% of Apptio users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Finout users who would recommend it.

Cloudability

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78% willing to recommend

Finout

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudability

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

3rd

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Finout

Ranking in Cloud Cost Management

37th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of Cloudability is 7.1%, down from 12.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Finout is 0.9%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Cloudability	7.1%
Finout	0.9%
Other	92.0%

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reviewer2795433

Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Gained multi-cloud cost visibility and have optimized spend with detailed reports and rightsizing

The IAM feature is something that we struggle with using. IBM, the company that runs Cloudability, released the Groups feature back in the summer of 2025. While Groups can be used in some parts of the tool, it can't be used across the entire tool. I've found that Groups is basically unusable because if it can't be used everywhere, you would have to run both group-based access control and direct user-based access control at the same time, which doesn't make any sense. The Groups feature has improved over time, but it's still not something we feel we can use on an everyday basis, so the IAM section remains an issue right now. Most of the tool is very well-functioning and developed, and that's the only real improvement area that we've seen.

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reviewer2795433

Enterprise Cloud Operations Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Unified cloud cost views have improved anomaly detection and enabled proactive budget control

The right sizing feature is okay. It could be used, but I feel its functionality isn't as strong as the cloud-native solutions, so GCP, AWS, and Azure. They all have better right sizing capabilities, so you probably wouldn't carry out right sizing from Finout. You'd want to do it directly in the cloud platforms. The right sizing feature needs more development. Also, the reservations analysis feature isn't quite detailed enough as it should be. If you're making purchasing decisions based off of a cloud tool, it's probably better right now to do it directly through the cloud-native tooling rather than through Finout. Those are the two features where I feel they could be improved. It's a great tool, but it does have those two areas of improvement in the right sizing and the reservation sections. If those sections were functioning very well and were very deep, then I would give it a ten out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The support from IBM is fantastic"

"Transparency and visibility are the key features."

"It provides us visibility, then we can turn around and can give the leadership team more information, which we could not previously give them."

"We use the product to get a detailed level of transparency on the cloud strengths."

"The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Cloudability's integration with our existing cloud infrastructure, it's not integrated directly into our AWS infrastructure but rather reads and pulls data from it, providing valuable insights and analysis for cost management."

"Cloudability's customizable alerts help me maintain budgetary goals by providing recommendations and alerts on slot usages."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to create reports and dashboards."

"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."

More Cloudability pros

"In terms of money saved, organizations could very easily save anywhere from ten to thirty percent of their cloud costs."

Cons

"Cloudability needs to improve on data collection from cloud sources."

"I wish there was a feature to temporarily remove certain recommendations from the list for teams that couldn't implement them immediately. I believe Cloudability could improve its automation functionality and enhance cost allocation modeling."

"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 would like the API functionality to improve. The update time after uploading data could also be improved."

"There are also some limitations with the dashboards and data representation in Cloudability."

"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 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."

More Cloudability cons

"The right sizing feature is okay. It could be used, but I feel its functionality isn't as strong as the cloud-native solutions, so GCP, AWS, and Azure."

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."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

10%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	13

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cloudability?

The most crucial feature in reducing my cloud costs has been the rightsizing recommendations, along with the dashboards that track reserved instance spending coverage and utilization. As for Clouda...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudability?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was adequate, but it could be made better.

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What needs improvement with Cloudability?

It would be beneficial if we could use resource tags to provide more fine-grained visibility.

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Overview

Cloudability is a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing every cloud expense across any organization. It brings transparency to how and where organizations spend money on cloud resources, giving them the power to reap the most value from cloud usage possible. It aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports, helps identify new opportunities for reducing spend and increasing cloud efficiency, offers budget alerts and recommendations via SMS and email, provides APIs for connecting cloud billing and usage data to any business or financial system, and more.

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Finout efficiently optimizes cloud cost management for tech-savvy users by transforming financial data into actionable insights.

Finout provides comprehensive solutions for managing cloud costs. It delivers detailed cost transparency and optimized resource allocation, enabling you to effectively manage and interpret financial data. Its platform integrates seamlessly with existing systems, offering analytics and granular cost breakdowns to enhance budgeting and forecasting accuracy. Users gain enhanced cost visibility across multiple cloud services.

What are the key features of Finout?

Cost Allocation: Provides detailed breakdowns of spending by service, team, or project, ensuring accurate financial tracking.
Budgeting Tools: Offers proactive budget alerts and dynamic resource recommendations, enhancing financial control.
Custom Dashboards: Interactive dashboards visualize data for better expense management and insights discovery.

What benefits should users anticipate?

Cost Savings: Efficient budgeting and allocation lead to reduced unnecessary expenses.
Improved Forecasting: Better prediction accuracy with detailed insights into usage patterns and trends.

Finout finds applications in industries like SaaS, where managing cloud spend is crucial. Its analytics assist in optimizing costs in fast-paced environments and regulating budget allocations to meet dynamic business demands. The platform's adaptability facilitates integration into varied industry workflows, ensuring efficient cloud expense management.

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

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