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CloudCheckr vs Flexera Cloud Cost Management comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

CloudCheckr
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
14th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (18th), Managed Cloud Services (6th), AI Observability (26th)
Flexera Cloud Cost Management
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
21st
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of CloudCheckr is 2.8%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Flexera Cloud Cost Management is 1.6%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
CloudCheckr2.8%
Flexera Cloud Cost Management1.6%
Other95.6%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
SV
Senior Cloud Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Automated governance has eliminated shadow spend and now provides clear multi-cloud accountability
Flexera Cloud Cost Management could improve by modernizing the user experience, as many users find the interface feels a bit dated compared to cloud-native competitors such as Vantage or CloudHealth. Another suggestion is to deepen the AI-driven auto-remediation; Flexera Cloud Cost Management is excellent at providing recommendations, but it still requires a manual click to approve or a custom script to execute an action. I suggest simplifying Flexera Cloud Cost Management SaaS platform because Flexera Cloud Cost Management's special sauce is software asset management. Integrating those on-prem licenses with cloud usage can still be complex to set up for a user.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It's one of the leading players for cloud optimization. It's hard to find anything better."
"The solution is mostly stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"CloudCheckr has impacted my organization positively by making things easier and saving time, approximately three hours a week."
"Our clients use this to financially optimize their cloud platform, and based on their utilization it helps to decide whether their current platform needs to be optimized and what the ideal form is."
"The solution is scalable for our purposes."
"CloudCheckr has positively impacted our organization as we've cut AWS spend by around 25% over two years."
"The best feature I like about CloudCheckr CMx High Security is its simplicity. I love that it's not rocket science to use the solution. Even if you're not familiar with the cloud, you can easily figure out how to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You can use AWS, you can use Azure, and you can use GCP with the solution because the integration is quite simple. You can also use multi-cloud with it, and you could see the billing part. You'll have complete visibility into your cost which I love about the solution. I also love that data on any security issues and vulnerabilities are available on the go with CloudCheckr CMx High Security. You don't need to do anything different. Just run the scan and you'll have all these open findings in the tool, in terms of the priority level, so if it's critical, it will tell you, "It's critical," and you need to fix it right away."
"Flexera Cloud Cost Management provided complete visibility across our multi-cloud footprint, allowing us to identify zombie resources, idle dev environments, and unattached storage, resulting in an immediate fifteen to twenty percent reduction in monthly waste simply by cleaning up what we were not using."
"Flexera Cloud Cost Management provides real-time live data that allows us to see realistic projections based on trends we anticipate, showing where we could possibly end off by year-end."
"Flexera Cloud Cost Management has helped my organization save money by 20% to 30%, as previously mentioned."
 

Cons

"CloudCheckr CMx High Security is complex. There are a lot of menus, and if you do not know what you are looking for you can get lost. However, the interface is self-explanatory. It's easy to understand where to go to get what you want."
"The solution must improve its user interface."
"CloudCheckr can be very slow sometimes."
"I was not satisfied with the customer support from CloudCheckr."
"What needs to be improved in CloudCheckr CMx High Security is integration. All the clouds are going quite fast, for example, all the cloud providers: Microsoft, Google, etc. CloudCheckr CMx High Security is good with AWS, no doubt about it, but with Azure and Google Cloud, I find that the solution is slow in that direction. If the vendor planned for CloudCheckr CMx High Security to be automated just for AWS, then it does make sense. If not, if the vendor is also targeting good integration with Google and Microsoft, then CloudCheckr CMx High Security integration needs improvement, in particular, it has to be faster. At the moment, its integration with Azure is not as good as its integration with AWS. With GCP, integration is nowhere."
"What needs to be improved in CloudCheckr CMx High Security is integration."
"CloudCheckr could enhance its Azure support, as it honestly feels an afterthought."
"Self-healing could be a bit smoother and a bit cleaner, easier to access and more functional. That would help."
"Flexera Cloud Cost Management can be improved by developing a normal chat interface or application where non-technical users do not have to navigate through Flexera API application or website."
"Flexera Cloud Cost Management could improve by modernizing the user experience, as many users find the interface feels a bit dated compared to cloud-native competitors such as Vantage or CloudHealth."
"While the solution works well, perhaps because we are still in the early stages of becoming familiar with the technology, I would appreciate improvements in the SaaS environment."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"A license is needed to use CloudCheckr CMx High Security, but because we are a managed service provider, the price of the license would vary. It depends on the type of cloud users we have, for example, it would be some type of percentage or monthly billing, etc."
"The solution is reasonably priced."
"The cost is on par with other providers."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
15%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
7%
Manufacturing Company
20%
Energy/Utilities Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
University
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CloudCheckr ?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reflects that it uses custom pricing based on your cloud spend, which is pretty standard for this category. I won't pretend it's cheap, but we'...
What needs improvement with CloudCheckr ?
CloudCheckr could enhance its Azure support, as it honestly feels an afterthought. We have some workloads on Azure and the experience compared to AWS is noticeably worse. Additionally, there's a lo...
What is your primary use case for CloudCheckr ?
A quick, specific example of how I use CloudCheckr in my workflow is that first thing every morning, I check the cost anomaly alerts. CloudCheckr flags anything that looks out of the ordinary overn...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Flexera Cloud Cost Management?
The pricing conversation was above my level of involvement. I remember briefly discussing the cost and had an understanding that there would be an expense associated with upgrading from the older v...
What needs improvement with Flexera Cloud Cost Management?
While the solution works well, perhaps because we are still in the early stages of becoming familiar with the technology, I would appreciate improvements in the SaaS environment. Specifically, I wo...
What is your primary use case for Flexera Cloud Cost Management?
Flexera Cloud Cost Management enables us to view our costs, identify areas of cost avoidance or savings, and assists us with budgeting. We can identify duplication in capability and recognize insta...
 

Also Known As

CloudCheckr CMx High Security, CloudCheckr CMP
RightScale Optima
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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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