--- title: CloudZero Reviews meta_title: 'CloudZero Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 64 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how CloudZero works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.6 review_count: 64 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # CloudZero Reviews **Vendor:** CloudZero **Category:** [Cloud Cost Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 64 ## About CloudZero CloudZero is the leader in cloud and AI cost intelligence. We empower the world's engineers to build cost-efficient software without slowing down innovation. CloudZero's platform automates the collection, allocation, and analysis of cloud cost data to uncover savings opportunities and improve unit economics. Our unique approach ensures organizations have the most complete, accurate, and granular source of truth for their cloud costs. CloudZero is used by industry leaders worldwide, such as Coinbase, Klaviyo, Miro, New Relic, Nubank, and Rapid7. ## CloudZero Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **clear visibility and actionable insights** of CloudZero, enhancing collaboration and informed decision-making on costs. (12 reviews) - Users value the **responsive customer success team** at CloudZero, enhancing support and guiding best practices effectively. (9 reviews) - Users find CloudZero's **ease of use** exceptional, ensuring intuitive cost allocation and insightful reporting for teams. (9 reviews) - Users value the **granular, reliable visibility** provided by CloudZero, enhancing cost optimization and insightful decision-making. (7 reviews) - Users value **clear, actionable visibility** into cloud costs, allowing informed decisions and proactive spend management. (7 reviews) - Users highlight the **significant cost reductions** achieved with CloudZero, enhancing cloud spend management and accountability. (5 reviews) - Data Centralization (5 reviews) - Easy Setup (5 reviews) - Users value the **fast, intuitive platform** of CloudZero that enhances visibility and empowers teams across the organization. (5 reviews) - Implementation Ease (5 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **dashboard issues** in CloudZero frustrating, as accessing detailed metrics requires extra steps and time. (3 reviews) - Users find the **limited customization options** in CloudZero hinder usability and accessibility for non-developer team members. (3 reviews) - Users face a **steep learning curve** with CloudZero, especially for those unfamiliar with cloud and FinOps concepts. (3 reviews) - Users find the **setup and cost formation rules complex** , making implementation and understanding a challenging process. (2 reviews) - Users find the **setup process confusing** , making implementation challenging due to its complexity and need for extensive user input. (2 reviews) - Users find CloudZero **expensive** for smaller teams and suggest improvements in features and cost insights. (2 reviews) - Inefficient Alert System (2 reviews) - Missing Features (2 reviews) - Poor UI Design (2 reviews) - Slow Performance (2 reviews) ## CloudZero Reviews ### 1. Game changer - engineering-friendly COGS tracking **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew J. | Sr Staff DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** The team at CloudZero has been awesome to work with, and they've helped us to break our cost down in ways that makes it easier to see not what optimizations will get us significant results, in particular lasting benefits. Also, the slack notifications on anomalies are great for quickly getting attention where it is useful. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** I don't have any real complaints at present - I'm looking forward to being able to integrate projections with reporting. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've been using CloudZero to model and track our COGS, allowing us to prioritize infrastructure and cost focused work with good projections of likely value. Focusing on areas that we IDed as having high potential for savings in 2020 got us a ~20% reduction in our running costs. ### 2. Cloudzero for monitoring AWS finances **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** easy menus to filter data and get to exactly what you need to see **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** Frequency of data update, need realtime. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** cost savings ### 3. Finally - Cost as an Operational Metric **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben P. | Principal Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** * Setup and connection to your AWS accounts is really smooth and easy and utilizes least-privilege IAM permissions. The team has done a masterful job on this. * The ability to slice and dice your cost data by so many different dimensions is a killer feature, especially the tag support. It's pretty easy to start to see immediate insights even without a reasonable tagging strategy or naming conventions. With a solid organizational strategy is where you find the biggest benefits - rolling up costs for teams/services/features or attributing cost per customer. CloudZero gives you insight into your cloud spend, but it also indirectly guides you towards building better products where such analysis is possible. * The ability to see untagged resources in context via extrapolated metadata and related resources is a big help in cleaning up messes like old unmanaged AWS accounts and abandoned experiments. * The performance and UX of the platform is quite good given the volume of billing data, screens are uncluttered and the information is easy to consume. * The "resource diff" feature, while rudimentary at present, is a useful data point that can help you figure out why a cost anomaly might have occurred. * The ability to change "cost views", e.g. real cost, billed cost, is supremely useful for communicating with different audiences. The unmodified AWS bill is terribly difficult to interpret if you're a developer trying to figure out why your service is suddenly costing more. * Cost anomaly detection has saved my bacon on a number of occasions, especially when doing serverless work. Even with EC2-based systems it's useful - helping me find suddenly-overprovisioned clusters or instances left running. * Seeing relationships for a resource you're analyzing is very useful when trying to solve a billing mystery. Often, a resource might have an incomprehensible name, but when seen in context with other related resources it becomes far more obvious what it is. * The monthly trends, slack alerts, and document downloads are all great features. Each one helps you see your spend from a different angle. * I like very much that CloudZero is branching out from EC2 and serverless into other areas like kubernetes and snowflake. Cost analysis is useful everywhere. * The focus on unit economics applied to your cloud spend is highly welcome and a trend I'd like to see continue. It's a mark of organizational maturity to perform this analysis; I'd like it to be on the minds of every executive I work with. The fact that CloudZero says "yes, we value this philosophy and will help you with answering these questions" is a big reason why I chose CloudZero, and why I will continue to do so. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** * The ML features around untagged/unknown resources, while extremely useful, do not seem intuitive. I feel like there needs to be some sort of guide or wizard that can help you go from "I just connected these accounts" to "hey this thing is finding structure I didn't know about" to "hey I've mastered my tagging strategy and know exactly what's going on". Definitions and examples on the 3 divisions (cost group, feature, product) would also be helpful. * There are no in-app definitions and examples for the different cost options (real cost, billed cost). I know them from talking with their team a lot and the views work fine, but this was not immediately clear. How credits, discounts, and support factors in is also unclear (though I understand this is being addressed) * I use KMS keys a lot, but given their cryptic names I feel I need more context. Unlike many other resources, keys do not seem to have the context like relationships that I would need to identify what they are supporting. There are occasionally resources like this that are hard to track down. * AWS is notorious for doing weird things with resource names, like putting instance name in a tag and key aliases in a separate resource. CloudZero could probably benefit from navigating some of these rules and showing the friendliest name possible for a resource. This would be especially helpful for things like large fleets of instances. Right now, the cost explorer contains a mix of easy-to-identify resources with incomprehensible ones and that makes discovery somewhat difficult. However it's still a lot better than using other tools! * Relationship links are not bidirectional when you are drilled-down into a resource. This leads to potential blind spots where you can only see what's connected to what if you pick the right resource to look at. * There's only a limited ability to drill into the cost explorer and uncover what's behind a "long tail". In a lot of cases I will see the top 5 taking up 20% of the total cost, with 80% being "other". Really unpacking what "other" contains is a bit more work than it needs to be IMO. There are no "negation" filters, where I could say "show me everything except these things I already know about" * CloudZero has limited options for integration with your auth provider. Would be nice if it supported GSuite. There are also occasional glitches with signin - nothing a page refresh can't fix, but somewhat annoying. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** * CloudZero is invaluable for running high-scale serverless applications. In such applications, it is very easy to release a new feature that costs too much, especially if you are moving fast and experimenting. This danger can be kept to a minimum. * Getting a legacy AWS account under control. You all know these accounts - full of dead experiments, overprovisioned untagged instances, mystery buckets. CloudZero helps you inventory and trim the fat. * Identifying and managing elastic infrastructure, from serverless to auto-scaling groups and everything in between. This has helped us manage multiple environments supporting 20+ engineers and hundreds of customers. ### 4. Developer-focused cloud cost tool with lots of potential. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** Cloudzero has a simple UI with good slack / email integration that lets you get relevant data quickly. Anomaly detection is useful and promising (though it can be somewhat noisy), and when combined with weekly reports can help teams notice cost increases and lets development teams manage the costs of their own infrastructure, which can help find software problems in addition to controlling overhead. Product support from Cloudzero is great, and features keep coming. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** There are some limits to reporting timeframes, comparing one year to the prior would be useful. There are a number of manual steps for setup/on-boarding that are not in the UI yet (its on the roadmap), so customer support is needed to get set up and make some changes in cost allocation. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** CloudZero lets us monitor costs per product area and provide that data directly to engineering teams, in addition to providing aggregated data. Notifications ensure that changes affecting costs are intentional, and help us decide where to work to optimize spend. ### 5. Can't go wrong with the alerting and anomaly detection **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** The best feature i like about CloudZero is that i get notified about anomalies in cost for all my resources as it detects it. I've tried other tools and have not found anything that provides the feedback this fast. I also really like how we get weekly on our spend behavior and tracking on the spend. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** The only dislikes i have with CloudZero is the UI. It took sometime to get used to and to figure out how view what i needed to view. I also think the UI loads a little slow. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems I am solving right now is managing costs and making sure we stay within our boundaries. With CloudZero its very easy for me to see whats going on how and helps me decipher on how to remediate it. I was using another tool and i had to export the data and use Chartio to View and mange the spend. ### 6. More polished than many competitor solutions, but still needs a fair amount of manual tagging work **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zac B. | Lead Site Reliability Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** The intuitiveness of the drilldowns and visualizations. I don't think in spreadsheets, so that's very useful for me. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** I'm an SRE. Getting all of our AWS resources tagged so that CZ categorized them properly took a really long time. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're tracking costs across a rapidly-growing, all-engineers-can-add-resources-to-AWS-any-time startup. Cost control is important to us, but we only have so many hands to do the work. CZ helps us figure out where cost control work is going to be the most effective versus where we could spend the time better on other things. ### 7. Finally connects all the dots for cloud spending. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric S. | Senior Systems Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** The anomaly detection and alerting puts it way ahead of their competitors. The UI is straightforward and they're willing to take and respond to input from their customers. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** No Google Cloud support. UI is sometimes a little slow but still much faster than the competition. **Recommendations to others considering CloudZero:** CloudZero offers features their competitors don't and provides a much more pleasant user experience. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've been able to identify some inefficiency in how we were using S3 buckets and where we were sending some of our network traffic and saved a bunch of money. ### 8. Excellent service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mitch D. | Lead Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** The responsiveness of the CloudZero team **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** Some pages can be a bit slow at times, but overall this is not really an issue. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** * We have discovered high cost portions of our application that previously went unnoticed * We are now readily alerted via Slack when costs increase in certain areas of our AWS bill. This proactive alerting has helped us prevent large increases in our bill as we are able to fix them before the costs increase too much * The team is always available on our Slack and is always willing to help ### 9. Excellent easy to use service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben H. | Business development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** Cloud Zero is great because it lets us define the AWS services we use by business function and see the real time spend for each. This gives us a clear picture on cost of delivery and the implications of product deployment. The support is excellent with thorough onboarding and quick responses once live. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** Nothing to dislike. Does what it promises to and more. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** CloudZero gives us much more granular detail on our cloud spend in addition to real time monitoring notifying us of any usage spikes outside of normal parameters. ### 10. A good, flexible product that let's me learn more about our AWS spend **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** I like that I can drill down. We have different cost targets per SKU, and CloudZero let's see how my team is doing at a high level, then drill into various products and further into the technologies that drive our spend. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** It seems to require a lot of behind the scenes customization. I'm not entirely sure how to customize the tool (e.g., update AWS tag mappings), though this is likely just a training issue. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been able to find the most expensive services I support and find the primary cost drivers. This helps me identify future areas of development and highlight risks in a quantifiable way to stakeholders. ### 11. Cloud zero- centralized view of all cloud expenditure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun V. | Tech lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** The UI is very intuitive on filtering our cloud provider costs by the service we use. Regardless of what cloud services and SaaS tools we use. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** still requires technical capabilities and resources from customer to send data to Cloudzero **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** observability of our AWS and Snowflake costs. ### 12. Putting Cost Control into Engineers Hands **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin S. | DevOps, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** Automated feedback with limited setup required **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** It took a little while for me to grok the tagging structures needed at first **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** With limited time at the speed we're moving at it's nice to have something automatically monitoring our cost without requiring someone to do that ### 13. Great visibility into our AWS spending **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2021 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** Drilling down into specific spend categories to get insights into what drives changes. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** The different UI screens are sometimes unintuitive. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're providing greater organization-wide visibility into our AWS spending, and building reports that allow specific teams to make decisions about work that would be most cost-effective. ### 14. Cloud Zero has helped us control and monitor our cost across multiple accounts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudZero?** CloudZero has helped us identify any anomalies within our pipeline so that we don't get hit with all those unexpected costs. Being a startup company this is extremely important to us. **What do you dislike about CloudZero?** Overall the product is extremely informative and produces well. **Recommendations to others considering CloudZero:** They really dig deep to give you a complete and accurate picture without missing any costs. **What problems is CloudZero solving and how is that benefiting you?** For us this is real simple, COST. Cost to us at the startup phase is critical. Out of the box we are able to show reporting, cost, and projections in one interface. 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