--- title: IBM Cloudability Reviews meta\_title: 'IBM Cloudability Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 204 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM Cloudability works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 204 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' parent\_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # IBM Cloudability Reviews & Product Details Visit Website IBM Cloudability is built to support the organizational adoption of FinOps—the cultural practice and operational process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of cloud and related costs. Its enterprise-grade FinOps features enable IT, finance, and business teams to optimize cloud, AI and Kubernetes costs and communicate the business value of these investments. Cloudability normalizes and structures billing and usage data from across public cloud ecosystems. Its robust set of capabilities enable teams to: • Fully allocate cloud spend, including containers and AI related costs, and support charges—enabling chargeback across the business and continuous improvements to cloud unit economics • Estimate workload costs, build budgets and create driver-based forecasts that surface variance details while tracking spend to plan • Automatically optimize cloud costs via industry-leading rightsizing and commitment recommendations, allowing you to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments • Make decisions with speed and confidence, powered by team ownership of cloud spend • Allocate shared costs, like specialized technology, labor and vendors, to extend FinOps and accountability to the total cost of running cloud • Support FinOps organizations in Federal agencies via FedRAMP authorized IBM Cloudability for US Federal • Enable Managed Services Providers to ingest, structure, and customize billing data via IBM Cloudability MSP Cloudability enables practitioners with the capabilities they need to drive FinOps forward— with financial accountability, optimized cloud spend and a roadmap for FinOps maturity. With over 10 years of accumulated expertise and innovation, Cloudability is the category pioneer and market leader dedicated to helping you excel at FinOps. * * * Product Website IBM Cloudability Seller [Apptio, an IBM Company](https://www.g2.com/sellers/apptio-an-ibm-company) Discussions [IBM Cloudability Community](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudability/discuss) Languages Supported English, Japanese Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Lauren Rappold Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 4 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudability/pricing) ![Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness") AH Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/30/2024 "Review" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Easy to create dashboards and support for new products Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? API could use some work. Names of items are not the same in APIs. For instance, a business mapping in cloudability might be called a "Super cool item," but in the APIs, it might be called "map3". The unique ID makes sense in case the name is changed but it would be nice to have this ID seen on the business map to find it faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Getting the cost to the team managers in a simple formate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Waseem A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Waseem A.") WA Waseem A. Associate Engineering Manager - Cloud Engineering Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/31/2024 "Apptio cloudability in my opinion" 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Apptio has easy and simple integration with AWS, NewRelic, K8s etc., it is very simle and easy to integrate and use the data. Also, the Business Mapping feature is very helpful since we have multipl cost tags, cost center tags and mapping this to a product/business is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? The cloudability UI could get better in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? the Business Mapping feature is very helpful since we have multipl cost tags, cost center tags and mapping this to a product/business is easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "Valuable insights" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Valuable insights. Easy to navigate and depth of functionality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? New features take longer to be deployed. Support services need to be advanced on technical skills. Performance issues with Apptio BI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloud cost transparency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/ibm-cloudability-review-10460812/official_response/edit) We love hearing that you are finding IBM Cloudability valuable and easy to navigate! We appreciate the feedback on features and support services. Would you be willing to give us some more specifics? We want to make sure you're receiving the support you need. Please contact us at Apptio\_Customer\_Feedback@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com. Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") UC Verified User in Consumer Goods Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "Cloud ability Review" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? The ability to see multiple cloud environment spend in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Sometimes the filtering and drill down can be cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Being able to identify what is driving our cloud spend and detecting anomalies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/ibm-cloudability-review-10459688/official_response/edit) Thank you for sharing your feedback on IBM Cloudability! We're thrilled to hear that you appreciate the ability to view multiple cloud environment spends in one place. We understand your concerns about filtering and drill-down capabilities and will work on improving the user experience for you. Identifying cost drivers and anomalies in cloud spend is crucial, and we're glad to hear that IBM Cloudability is helping you in this aspect. If you have any specific suggestions on how we can enhance the filtering and drill-down features to make them more user-friendly, please feel free to share by reaching out to us at Apptio\_Customer\_Feedback@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com. We're here to assist you further and ensure you have a seamless experience! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Banking](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Banking") CB Verified User in Banking Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "Apptio is great for cloud spend visiblity" 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Easy setup, multiple moudules that support different requiement like turbonomics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Can be a little costly initially and takes time to demonstrate ROI to leadership Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? ROI for cloud IT ops and spend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/ibm-cloudability-review-10460787/official_response/edit) Thank you for sharing your feedback! We are thrilled to hear that IBM Cloudability has been a useful tool for you. Thank you for being a valued Apptio customer! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Dave G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dave G.") DG Dave G. Director of Technology and Digital Strategy Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/21/2024 "Great product with many options and flexibility" 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Being cloud based, the product allows me to customize the functionality. Lots of great intergration options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? It is a bit costly, but you get what you pay for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing services via the cloud and ensuring compliance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") EF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/29/2024 "Cloudability is not as suited to smaller enterprises or startups in terms of TCO and ease of use" 2.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? We reviewed Cloudability in a bakeoff with other vendors in the cloud cost optimization space - It has multi cloud support - Has a lot of bells and whistles for cloud costs especially on AWS & GCP Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? - Pricing being a % of spend is not scalable as it drives the wrong incentives - Overly complicated setup for getting onboarded - Tailoring the reporting was much harder Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Driving cost optimization in cloud spending is a key for driving efficiencies and profitability and we need a tool that is easy to use, integrates into our setup and provides reporting for different teams like finance, cloud operations etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/ibm-cloudability-review-9718181/official_response/edit) Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We strive to make our customers wildly successful, and we’re sorry to hear that we missed the mark here. We have taken your feedback on board, and we will strive to make improvements accordingly. To further show our deepest apologies and gratitude, would you please consider emailing us at customerfeedback@apptio.com to discuss this further? Kind regards, Apptio Team Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") AF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "Nice visual dashboards" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? The beautiful and customizable dashboards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Easier way to run custom reports by customer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Being able to run cost reports and provide visual report graphs to our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/ibm-cloudability-review-10459721/official_response/edit) Hi! Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We value your opinion and will share your feedback regarding custom reports with our product team! We are happy to hear that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "Cloud ability stands out as a great FinOps tool although it is expensive." 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Normalization of costs especially on multi cloud environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? RIghtsizing i nformation reliability needs work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloud cost transparency, rightsizing recommendations helps create conversations with engineers and dev. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Food & Beverages](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Food & Beverages") AF Verified User in Food & Beverages Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/7/2024 "Transparency and visibility into all cloud costs in central place" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? You can see all your cloud costs/usage in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Reporting is cumbersome-time consuming to create customized reports Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Visibility of our cloud spend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Janie Carothers of IBM Cloudability [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/ibm-cloudability-review-10468195/official_response/edit) Thank you for sharing how IBM Cloudability is helping you gain visibility into your cloud spend. We are committed to continuously enhancing our platform to better meet your needs. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ## Questions about IBM Cloudability? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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