--- 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 Airlines/Aviation](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Airlines/Aviation") EA Verified User in Airlines/Aviation Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/25/2024 "Cloydability as a single pane of glass" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? At American we have been able to create visibility for our cloud spend vs budget as a single pave of glass with this tool. It is a huge step towards the FinOps maturity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Lot of optimization recommendations cannot be executed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Enables Visibility and improves accountability for cloud costs with reporting , alerting 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-10562225/official_response/edit) Thank you for sharing your positive experience with IBM Cloudability in gaining visibility into cloud spend at American. We're thrilled to hear it's helping with your FinOps maturity. We understand your concern about optimization recommendations and would like to learn more about the specific challenges you're facing. Our team is here to assist you in finding solutions that align with your needs. Please reach out to us so that we can assist you. We want to help you in any way that we can! Please email Janie.Carothers@ibm.com. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign AD aswanidutt d. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "cloudability requires improvements" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? cost visibility is the best feature using tags, dimensions, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? apart of cost visibility, everything else needs improvement to match the industry trends Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? cost visibility 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-10459843/official_response/edit) Hi Aswanidutt! We're glad to hear that the cost visibility feature is benefiting you. We are continuously working on enhancing our platform to address the areas that need improvement and appreciate your input. We appreciate the feedback! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign JB Jeff B. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "Powerful tool, but want more as an MSP in the public sector." 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Speed. Customizable dashboard, Simplicity....flexibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Lacks inventory reports to ID shutdown services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Provides multi-cloud visibility to my end customers with up to date cost data. 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-10460625/official_response/edit) Hi Jeff! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave your honest review! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you. We're constantly working to improve so we will share the feedback regarding inventory reports to ID shutdown services to 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 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 for being a valued Apptio customer! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign JD JC D. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "Multi cloud Cost Tracking" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? It provides a single plane of glass view of all cloud spend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? It's not fully integrated with Apptio costing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Optimize 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-10459651/official_response/edit) Hi JC! Thank you for sharing your experience! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you. We appreciate the feedback! 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 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 for being a valued Apptio customer! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign JO juliet o. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "Fantastic Tool" 5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Ease of delivery of meaningful consumption Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Poor linkage to existing cost center structures in CT Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing anf forecasting Azure 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-10460776/official_response/edit) Hi Juliet! Thank you for sharing your experience! We love hearing that IBM Cloudability is a useful tool for you. 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 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 for being a valued Apptio customer! Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![Om Prasad S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Om Prasad S.") OS Om Prasad S. Senior Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/6/2023 "Cloudability, One of the best Cloud Cost Governance Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? The best thing about CLDY is to get the Anomaly spend detection which is a great feature to get aware about the excessive spend/day by setting a limit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Would have been great to add a feature to link EBS & Snapshots with EC2 when cost of EC2 instance gets generated Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? CLDY helps to organise the cost dashboards and provides features like cost optimization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/21/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller SS Satinderpal S. Chief Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/30/2024 "One stop shop for your cloud economist" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? The most helpful for it being providing support for multi cloud environments, it shows way more details then the AWS recommendations,and has a very user friendly interface, integration with AWS and GCP environments is quite seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Would be amazing if it can integrate with the data center as well so that there is one stop shop for all costs vs looking at multiple interfaces. Would also like to see Apptio giving more and more customization capability to the end users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Bringing the bottom line costs down with costs available on fingertips to the entire org. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Jeff J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jeff J.") JJ Jeff J. Job hunter extraordinaire Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/30/2024 "Cloud Cost Management Solutions Need to evolve to cover non-cloud costs" 2.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Aption allowed me to report on and identify wasted cloud spend in multiple clouds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? At the time Aptio didn't allow me to bring in non-cloud saas and paas spend. For example, competitors allow me to report on my monitoring costs, my cdn costs, my software licensing costs, etc which also need reporting an optimization. See Vantage and Finout for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Reporting and helping me understand the sources of my cloud spend. Seeing where that spend is coming from helps me focus on optimizing the most high impact areas for my clients business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Siranjeevi D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Siranjeevi D.") SD Siranjeevi D. Product Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/31/2024 "Detailed Cost Savings Report and Dashboard" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? While applications move rapidly to the cloud, the general trade-off is to reach productivity and availability cheaply. Cloudability helps quantify the enterprise spend on cloud and smoothes the communication of cloud financial management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? The tool provides complicated recommendations that can confuse and derail new users from picking the right recommendation. Widgets are difficult to understand and can take a good chunk of time exploring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Visibility into consumption by type, environment and others Usage recommendation and ability to resize based on usage Financial Overview and profitability score calculation 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") UF Verified User in Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/5/2024 "CLDY Review- Abhisheik Sharma" 4/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? One stop shop for consumption based information as well as rightisizing savings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? The visual reporting capabilities lag greatly behind a tableau-like software. Could greatly improve here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Providing our application owners with insights in how to optimize their cloud footprint. Forecasting module has been a big help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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