--- title: IBM Cloudability Reviews meta\_title: 'IBM Cloudability Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 202 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: 202 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) JS James S. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/8/2025 "Reseller for product" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? UI interface is customer friendly and usable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Data collection treams and overall output Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Finops Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 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.) 3/18/2025 "Great tool for consolidating, understanding and analysing public cloud costs" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Cloudability is useful for our organisation, specifically for: • Customisable/Personalised dashboards to monitor and analyze cloud usage and costs • Chargeback reporting including custom dimensions and metrics related to spend and usage • Rightsizing recommendations for cost optimisation • Resource inventory data to identify underutilised resources • Business mappings and custom views for cost allocation and transparency for individual business units/regions • Tagging reporting • Ad-hoc dashboard builds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? There are limitations in a few areas, and specifically we would like to see improvements in: - Enhanced and automated rightsizing recommendations - Reports around savings made from actioning recommendations - Enhanced forecasting models - Custom calculations available in Apptio BI, currently these are limited Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? It aggregates together our cloud costs from different providers in a standardised format and allows us to create custom metrics, dimensions and reports to review and analyse our spend. We use the rightsizing recommendations and anomaly detection to drive savings. 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-10954359/official_response/edit) We're glad to hear that you find IBM Cloudability useful for consolidating, understanding, and analyzing your public cloud costs. We appreciate your feedback on the areas for improvement and will take them into consideration for future enhancements. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Utilities](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Utilities") AU Verified User in Utilities Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/13/2025 "Take control of your cloud spend" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Great insight into Cloud spend and cloud utilisation data. Cloudability has given us a platform to properly understand our cloud spend, how our cloud spend is trending and actions we can perform to optimize our cloud spend. It has empowered us to make metric based decisions and greater proactivity in addressing cloud usage before the big bill lands at the end of the month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? This isn't a cheap tool, and for many organisations they will potentially just see this as "more cloud cost" and therefore not realise the benefits such a product and solutions can provide them. There are some minor improvements we'd like to see, particularly around rightsizing recommendations and preferences. For example you can avoid certain instance types for EC2 in AWS but you can't do the same for EBS and avoid SC1 storage. This leads to a lot of rightsizing alerts which either have to be snoozed or filtered. There could also be improvements as to how cluster costs are, particularly around deeper insights of usage of resources and networking, hopefully future integrations with newly acquired Kubecost will improve this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Identifying where cloud spend goes Identifying ways to prevent cloud spend spiralling Helping with chargeback and showback of 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-10938664/official_response/edit) Thank you for sharing your experience! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you. This is great feedback, as we are continuously trying to improve our products. I will share this with the product team! Thanks! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/8/2025 "Apptio for effective cloud cost management" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? The ability to finops visibility across multiple clouds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Sometimes it is very hard to identify the resources entity variables to be able to pull it into report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? The goal is to gain visibility into cloud costs across different teams in order to keep spending under control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![AKHILA R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "AKHILA R.") AR AKHILA R. Senior Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/13/2025 "Really good but can be improved" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Container insights and cost transparency , ability to create business dimensions, ability to create views using business dimensions, cost sharing feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Huge cost difference between reporting and container insights , views created with BM or tags are not supported for most of the cloud ability features like container insights , cost sharing feature doesn’t have container dimensions under allocated data source , apptio bi performance is really poor at times . Also we often get issues on loading commitment recommendations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloud ability helps provide cost transparency and excellent container insights 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-10940061/official_response/edit) Hi Akhila, Thank you for sharing that feedback! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you. We are constantly working to improve our products so thank you for sharing your experience. We will share that information with our product team. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign JS Joshua S. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/6/2024 "Unmatched User Experience for Cloud Data Clarity" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? It's a really intuitive software, it's easy to teach people how it works. It also cleans up the noise with the GL by providing only the data you're asking to see. It's a clean UI and is organized very well. The rightsizing recommendations have provided a lot of benefits to our team and the newly added snoozing functionality is a great help when looking at potential savings! We have some other tools where we just retrieve the data they provide via APIs since their UI is too convoluted, but we never run into that issue with Cloudability. Lastly, their APIs are a huge help to our team when we've needed to pull the data into our custom internal reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? When creating a dashboard, you can't bring multiple datasets into the same dashboard. Cloudability works in segmented tabs, so rightsizing lives on one page, cloud spend lives on another, same with budgeting / forecasting. It would be beneficial if they could bring it all together in one system, so end users could see a mix of datasets in one dashboard. Apptio BI has been a great solution to this problem from the initial tests we've had. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? our organization built an internal tool where users had to check their cloud spend account by account. However, cloudability lets you create views, which has been really beneficial for team leads that manage 20+ accounts. 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-10466773/official_response/edit) Hi Joshua! Thank you for sharing your detailed feedback on IBM Cloudability! We're thrilled to hear that you find our software intuitive, organized, and beneficial for your team. Your insights on dashboard functionality are valuable, and we appreciate your suggestions for improvement. We are constantly working to enhance our platform and provide a seamless user experience, so your feedback will be shared with our development team. If you have any further suggestions or encounter any issues, please feel free to reach out to our support team. We are here to assist you and ensure you continue to benefit from using IBM Cloudability. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign GS Gareth S. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/13/2025 "Enhanced Multi Cloud Cost Management Platform" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? The Multi Cloud Visibility in one single platform Enhanced recommendations including multiple risk options The consistent new features and capabilities being released Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Heavily focused on AWS and not all features as helpful for other major CSPs such as Azure - pass through recommendations only as an example. CSA also only for AWS EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Providing one platform for cloud consumption to our business. Saves people logging into multiple AWS Console and Azure to see all Cloud spend. Visualizing spend and cost saving and opportunities for all stakeholders 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-10939693/official_response/edit) Hi Gareth, Thank you for sharing your experience! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you. We are continuously improving our products and I will make sure to share this feedback with our product team! We would like to invite you to join other Apptio customers around the globe by interacting in our IBM Community, an exclusive online forum made up of Apptio and IBM customers, Partners, and Employees. It’s a great place to learn, connect, share and grow together. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/apptio/home Also, have you heard about our user groups? User groups are hosted throughout the year and are for our users, by our users. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming 2025 user group dates and locations, sign up here: https://www.apptio.com/resources/apptio-user-groups/ Thank you, Janie Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign KD kyle d. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/13/2025 "extremely informative and optimistic." 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? The visibility we gain from our cloud cost consumption and the added ability to inform various personas within our organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? The lack of training available sometimes feels as though we are not maximizing our potential and it also restricts our opportunity to support our stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? We are able to review and report on all our spend via one source and confirm its authenticity to the central CSP's. Having everything under one source makes it easier to report on. 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-10940520/official_response/edit) Hi Kyle, Thank you for sharing your feedback! We are glad to hear that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you. We always want you to feel supported and equipped to have the best possible experience. If you would, please share some more details with us at Apptio\_Customer\_Feedback@wwpdl.vnet.ibm.com so that we can address these needs and provide some resources for you. Thank you! Janie Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Verified User in Insurance](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Insurance") UI Verified User in Insurance Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/13/2025 "Cloudability use for cloud cost visibility" 3.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Cloudability has been great for us to get cost visibility for our multi cloud environment. This, coupled with the tagging functionality has helped us accelerate our FinOps journey and being accountability of spending. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? It is a bit slow and clunky at times. Trying to dive deeper into analysis can be difficult compared to the cloud service provider native cost management tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloudability allows me to view costs across my multi cloud environment and appropriate costs to the select business units. I had to do this manually previously, Cloudability allows me to do this quickly and efficiently saving me time and increasing accuracy. 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-10940202/official_response/edit) Thank you for sharing your experience! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you. We appreciate that feedback and will share with our product team. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign SD Simon D. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/13/2025 "A long time user of Cloudability" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? The transparency it gives to our users, and the dynamic conversations it leads too, to add the value our business needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Sometimes the time it takes to run queries while being on a live demonstration to my business units. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? It solves the needs to utilise several other tools, it gives us a single view to feedback costs on a regular basis. 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-10940110/official_response/edit) Hi Simon, We LOVE that you're a long time user of Cloudability! Thank you for sharing your experience! We are happy to hear that IBM Cloudability continues to be a useful tool for you. We are constantly looking to improve our products so thank you for that feedback about the time it takes to run queries. We will share with our product team! 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