--- 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 Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/16/2025 "Needs Better Resource Inventory and Optimization Features" 2.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? 1. Cloud cost reporting 2. Dashboard 3. Schedule reminder 4. Budget and forecasting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Resource inventory Optimisation opportunity and action Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? It primarily addresses issues related to cloud inventory and identifies opportunities for optimization, which in turn helps to reduce business costs through technical improvements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![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.) 11/6/2024 "Good self service tools for looking at cloud costs" 3/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? I like how people are able to see their cloud costs and opportunities through Cloudability through various charts and reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Having to reprocess data when account mappings or business metrics change (rather than it being instantaneous) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? It lets us group accounts from multiple csp into specific tags and see those costs in one view. It benefits managers and engineers who want to view those details and share those betweens one another. 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-10466826/official_response/edit) Thank you for sharing your feedback on IBM Cloudability. We're glad to hear that you find the self-service tools helpful in analyzing cloud costs. We understand your concern about the reprocessing of data when account mappings or business metrics change. We are continuously working to improve our platform for a smoother user experience. If you have any further questions or need assistance, please feel free to reach out for support - Janie.Carothers@ibm.com. Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 Gives Campaign ![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 ![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 Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") UR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/18/2023 "apptio for azure cloud costing report" 3/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? able to create costing based on tags for each project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? managing multiple subscriptions. global setting for all subscriptions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? provide a reporting platform for users to see their own costing. We are using cost center tag so it will only be as accurate as our tagging of the resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Nathan M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nathan M.") NM Nathan M. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/23/2023 "Works well, but can be slightly confusing to put dashboards together." 2.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? The insight it gives us into our cloud inventory Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Sometimes getting the actual inventory of a cloud environment into cloudability can be difficult especially when working with may clouds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Inventory Management and Dashboarding for cloud cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Lauren Rappold of IBM Cloudability [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/ibm-cloudability-review-7862220/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 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller MD Moises d. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/9/2023 "Solid experience" 2.5/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Fairly intuitive layout, robust reporting options, and thorough out-of-the-box options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? Software latency is still a problem. Reporting could load faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? We have numerous AWS costs and will be transitioning to Informatica soon. Cloudability helps the business track down the costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Lauren Rappold of IBM Cloudability [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/ibm-cloudability-review-7815020/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 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Oil & Energy](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Oil & Energy") UO Verified User in Oil & Energy Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/18/2023 "Cloud Cost" 3/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? It gives a clear picture of how the cloud costs are trending Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? I feel that the dashboard is not super easy to navigate and manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Able to check the cloudcostson monthly basis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") EI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/26/2023 "decent SaaS offering" 3/5 What do you like best about IBM Cloudability? Performance, functionality, charge back, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about IBM Cloudability? User experience could be better UI response time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is IBM Cloudability solving and how is that benefiting you? Chargeback when using workloads in the cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about IBM Cloudability? 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