IBM Cloudability Reviews and Ratings

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IBM Cloudability Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use IBM Cloudability to provide transparency around our cost spend and how to optimize it.

Pros

Provide Transparency
Identify Spend Trends
Provide optimization

Cons

More Rightsizing Recommendation Services
Allow User customization
Better on boarding training

Likelihood to Recommend

Good for users who have AWS as their main CSP as all features are available and targeted for these clients. Less features or there is a lag for Azure and other CSP users.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, We use mete data overlay to clean data and recharge costs per BU (business unit).

Pros

Normalises data
API backend links
Reporting
Visualisation

Cons

Easy to understand interface
Prompts on data entry

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to tell a colleague that, in our experience, with IBM Cloudability it is Simple to see our costs using dimensions

Verified User

Team Lead in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

Absolute beginner

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cloudability To support cloud cost reporting and optimisation as part of finops.

Pros

Mapping for cost allocation
Cost reporting
Data ingestion and standardisation

Cons

I think there is room for improvement in IBM Cloudability with Support for non public cloud platforms

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked about IBM Cloudability, I think I am likely to tell a colleague that I think IBM Cloudability is a Great product but may not meet their need based on source or reporting requirements.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

IBM Cloudability

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cloudability as our centralized FinOps and cloud financial management platform. It serves as the "single source of truth" that bridges the gap between our Engineering, Finance, and Leadership teams. Instead of relying on disjointed native tools from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, we ingest billing data from all our providers into IBM Cloudability to create a unified operational view.

Pros

Granular Multi-Cloud Cost Visibility
Advanced Kubernetes & Container Cost Allocation

Cons

Advanced Kubernetes & Container Cost Allocation
Intelligent Rightsizing and Commitment Management
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Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for the difficulties and instances especially with the public sector and the public care. Especially in line with our procurement.

Ketan Doshi

Senior Consultant at The Met (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Still using and still learning

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Primary use is a visibility tool. We also use it to highlight optimisation opportunities and to share those with teams. Our problems are mainly in addressing the high costs of a DC migration exit, where we have higher than anticipated cloud costs that we want to optimise as soon as possible.

Pros

Visibility
Choice of risk based optimisations
User interface

Cons

BI
Speed to load
Training materials

Likelihood to Recommend

It is good at top down finops. It gives visibility to senior management and enables them to see things without needing AWS access. It gives good summaries. It can be improved by being better at the bottom-up stuff, and getting users to take action rather than just suggesting things that often are lower priority.

Verified User

Manager in Finance and Accounting (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

IBM Cloudability Review

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 11, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cloudability for cost data management for our Azure cloud services. Product provides high visibility of the cloud costs as well we utilize the cost sharing feature for the cost allocation which is a cool feature. Also we use the rightsizing and optimisations features within Cloudability.

Pros

Apptio BI report features like drill down and linked reports even though performance is poor
Cost sharing feature
Rightsizing feature
Container insights

Cons

Apptio BI reporting performance can be improved
API availability for apptio BI reporting
NEW IBM Report studio having drill down and linked report features in place
New IBM Report Studio having dragging facility with ease
Cost sharing dimensions compatible with other business dimensions
Container dimensions like namespace available for cost sharing reports

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM Cloudability will be the best tool for Cost transparency and optimisations for cloud costs but when it comes to FinOps for AI, its unable to map easily a specific team the costs as we get the overall token costs but not the API request came from which team or which team used more tokens kind of an information, so would be great , if there is such a feature where the tokens can be mapped to the right teams and instead of sharing across teams, if teams can pay the costs based on the tokens they used would be great.

Akhila Ravi

Senior Consultant in Engineering at Cariad (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

March 11, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organization, we use IBM Cloudability For FinOps and monitoring AWS Costs

Pros

Shows costs in nice tables
Allows overview of costs
Displays where costs are being used

Cons

I think there is room for improvement in IBM Cloudability with Allowing export of reports
I think there is room for improvement in IBM Cloudability with Allowing easy ways to replicate tables for many different accounts

Likelihood to Recommend

If asked, I think I am likely to tell a colleague that, in my experience, IBM Cloudability Needs to be a bit more flexible

Paul Seward

Senior DevSecFinOps in Engineering at Informa PLC (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Good product but can be better

Rating: 6 out of 10

March 11, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Visibility of cloud costs and identification of optimisation opportunities

Pros

Showing large amounts of data for customer vs azure portal
Business mappings to add business inteligence

Cons

Reports are not intuitive
Optimisation logic is not transparent
changes keep being made with no notification

Likelihood to Recommend

Great tool but with lots of caveats, if those are understood and accepted then consumers are less disappointed with their experience

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

IBM Cloudability 2026

Rating: 8 out of 10

March 11, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Multi Cloud Visualization of Cloud Costs, drivers behind those costs, trends, spikes and opportunities to optimise.

Pros

Visualization - Dashboards
Multi Cloud View in one platform
AWS Optimisation

Cons

Azure optimisation ( not pass through )
Assign Alerts direct to users ( rather than them having to subscribe )
Rate Coverage % including all services such as newer services Redshift Serverless, DB Saving Plans

Likelihood to Recommend

Great at visulation across Multi Cloud.

Recommendations heavily AWS focused so not as valueable for Azure

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

IBM Cloudability under the hood thoughts

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 11, 2026

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Cloudability as a FinOps lead or sme within my company, it enables me to pull Azure cost data and build some basic reports. The scope goes from using the product to build monthly cost reports to getting technical change recommendations

Pros

ingestion
ease of building reports
functionality

Cons

basic report template examples for FinOps
usage data from azure for rightsizing purposes?
be able to easily transfer into powerbi or Ms team

Likelihood to Recommend

it is user friendly and the support teams are very good

Joe Hetherton

cloud economist in Information Technology at edf (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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