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CloudBolt vs CloudZero comparison

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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

CloudBolt
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
33rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (26th)
CloudZero
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of CloudBolt is 1.4%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudZero is 2.2%, up from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CloudZero2.2%
CloudBolt1.4%
Other96.4%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

AbhishekGupta2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized self-service has unified hybrid clouds and has improved governance and cost control
The best features CloudBolt offers include governance and policy control, allowing security teams to set up their specific guardrails with governance at scale. Multi or hybrid cloud abstraction provides a single pane of glass for different types of environments, and self-service catalogs enable technical or business users to request services without multiple tickets. CloudBolt also offers strong integration capabilities that work well with existing tools without disrupting the current environment. From an integration standpoint, CloudBolt works well with various public and private cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMware, and Nutanix, as well as different virtualization software, infrastructure as code templates such as Ansible and Terraform, ITSM tools such as ServiceNow, and CMDB platforms. CloudBolt has positively impacted my organization by managing multiple cloud environments for thousands of users with a complex enterprise workflow that has helped reduce man-hours required for provisioning resources. We have achieved faster delivery through standardized operating procedures and reduced reworks due to automation. The chargeback and showback mechanisms allow us to charge different business units according to their consumption, providing better governance, lower risk, and lower cost, resulting in a good return on investment. Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months.
Ravi ShankarSundarasan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Cloud Architect at Blue Yonder
Multi-cloud costs have become transparent and teams gain persona-based insights to optimize spend
CloudZero is a multi-cloud cost management solution for enterprise organizations who want to view their cloud spend in a single dashboard with appropriate information and identify cost anomalies in a faster manner. The best features CloudZero offers include persona-based dashboards, meaningful data insights to optimize cloud spend, and telemetry data and integrations with other cloud platforms, along with email-based proactive cost anomaly alerts. CloudZero offers a single pane of dashboard to understand cloud cost visibility for a multi-cloud infrastructure, and we were able to drill down into unit economics to understand the unit level cost in each cloud platform. The governance and security are excellent, allowing us to create and assign permissions based on each persona, so the security features are outstanding. The accuracy and reliability are excellent by using CloudZero AI features, and we were able to get more meaningful data insights for optimizing cloud spend. The features are excellent and we were able to add the AI feature in CloudZero to get more valuable cost optimization insights. Using CloudZero dashboards, every team is able to understand their cloud spend by cloud platform and it helps to detect cost anomalies before there is a cloud cost spike.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product takes care of a hybrid cloud environment and it helps me maintain control and insight across various cloud platforms."
"Role-based access control and application blueprinting."
"Customer Service: World class."
"Hybrid cloud platform for VM and app deployment and management, with very good stability. It's customizable, easy to set up, and can be deployed within half an hour."
"Making the lifecycle management automated has made life easier."
"The initial deployment was super easy."
"CloudBolt has positively impacted my organization by reducing the manual provisioning effort, enabling faster environment delivery, and improving governance, standardization, and visibility."
"Since using CloudBolt, I have seen a 25 to 30 percent reduction in service delivery time and an improvement in efficiency of almost 20 to 25 percent within a timeframe of approximately 8 to 10 months."
"CloudZero has delivered practical benefits to my organization including faster cost investigation, better architecture decisions, easier executive communication, improved resource governance, and reduced manual analysis."
"CloudZero's best feature is the dashboarding capabilities."
"CloudZero is a great solution for an enterprise organization looking for a third-party cloud cost management solution, and it provides meaningful data insights for optimizing multi-cloud costs."
"CloudZero is a great tool; I have definitely enjoyed using it and have seen business benefits from it, so I am very happy with the tool."
"The best part of CloudZero is the UI for creating dashboards."
 

Cons

"The MCP is still at a very early stage in CloudBolt."
"The area of integrating on-prem and cloud needs improvement."
"CloudBolt can be improved in areas such as initial workflow design, product complexity, and customization."
"To improve CloudBolt, I believe the user experience needs enhancement as some users find it somewhat dated compared to newer cloud management platforms."
"Support for containers is basic and needs improvement."
"We did find it was a bit challenging to scale horizontally behind a load balancer in an active/active configuration."
"CloudBolt can be improved. It needs way more customizations when it comes to provisioning itself."
"The solution is not easy to use. It's not intuitive enough to click anywhere in the solution and make it work."
"I would not recommend it to small setups."
"We were applying various filters that they did not support."
"I chose a rating of seven because I'm looking for CloudZero to focus more on the optimization side and Kubernetes clustering."
"In terms of improvements for CloudZero, I felt there could be potential improvements in their budget section."
"CloudZero can be improved by ingesting more AI features for analyzing the database platform as a service, and we need more AI-related features in CloudZero."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the pricing an eight out of ten because the solution is expensive."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
"The system is cheaper if a customer has fewer servers since you pay by the node."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Computer Software Company
19%
Real Estate/Law Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudBolt?
We are doing a lot of customization. For example, if I want to do a custom scheme or if I want to do a static IP, these kinds of flows I still need to do very manually or through a script, so it wo...
What is your primary use case for CloudBolt?
My main use case for CloudBolt is provisioning servers. We have a VM environment, so we would use a CloudBolt template and then map it to CloudBolt environment and provision the server for our prod...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudBolt?
My advice for others looking into using CloudBolt is that if you are a server admin, it is very useful. I would advise you that CloudBolt will be very useful for your needs.
What needs improvement with CloudZero?
CloudZero could be improved by introducing forecasting features, as expanded predictive analysis in future cost forecasting would provide additional value. Broader third-party integration options w...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudZero?
My advice to others looking into using CloudZero is that it provides very detailed economics of cloud infrastructure, making it a great purchase. I would rate this review a 10 out of 10.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudZero?
We were able to reduce 20% cloud spend using CloudZero insights, and we were able to purchase more reservations and savings plans, perform rightsizing activities, and clean up orphaned resources in...
 

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Sample Customers

WM, CyWest, Panic, Camden, University of Maryland, Xerox, Neustar, Medidata, Continu, Aruba Networks, Neuberger Berman, Peak6, EverBank, Ascensus, Hosting Edge
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