Sold by: IBM Software
IBM Cloudability is an industry-leading cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables technology, finance, and business teams to maximize the value of their public cloud strategy.
Sold by: IBM Software
Overview
IBM Cloudability is a flexible cloud cost management and optimization tool that enables IT, finance, and business teams to optimize their costs and communicate the business value of the cloud. IBM Cloudability is built to support the organizational adoption of cloud financial management - the process of bringing financial accountability to the scalable, variable, and distributed nature of the cloud. IBM Cloudability normalizes, and structures cloud billing and usage data from across your public cloud ecosystem so that you can actively manage spend and consumption to continuously improve the unit economics of cloud services., enabling your team to: Fully and accurately allocate your cloud spend, including containers and support charges, to ensure a full chargeback of cloud costs to the business; Optimize cloud costs, leveraging rightsizing recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operating expenses and fund future innovation investments; Make decisions with speed and confidence, enabling team ownership and accountability of cloud spend to better align cloud investments to business objectives.
Highlights
- Establish Visibility: Translate billing and usage data into a unified view to contextualize costs and govern cloud consumption.
- Optimize Costs: Match spend to needs, view reservations and commitment based discounts, and identify candidates for purchase and modification.
- Improve Efficiency: Continuously improve the unit economics of cloud with a shared understanding of costs and business value.
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Pricing
Pricing is based on the duration and terms of your contract with the vendor, and additional usage. You pay upfront or in installments according to your contract terms with the vendor. This entitles you to a specified quantity of use for the contract duration. Usage-based pricing is in effect for overages or additional usage not covered in the contract. These charges are applied on top of the contract price. If you choose not to renew or replace your contract before the contract end date, access to your entitlements will expire.
Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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CLDY1MYEAR | Manage up to $1M of annual cloud spend. Addl fees above $1M/year | $30,000.00 |
CLDY3MYEAR | Manage up to $3M of annual cloud spend. Addl fees above $3M/year | $76,680.00 |
CLDY6MYEAR | Manage up to $6M of annual cloud spend. Addl fees above $7M/year | $132,480.00 |
Dimension | Cost/unit |
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Cloud Spend above contracted amount in an Annual Commit Model | $3,300.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Total Commit model | $3,300.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Financial Planning Annual Commit model | $1,650.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Financial PlanningTotal Commit model | $1,650.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in an Essentials Annual commit model | $1,930.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in an Essentials Total commit model | $1,930.00 |
Cloud spend above contracte amount in a Standard Annual commit model | $2,760.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Standard Total commit model | $2,760.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Premium Annual commit model | $4,410.00 |
Cloud spend above contracted amount in a Premium Total commit model | $4,410.00 |
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Refunds, cancellations, and credits are issued on a case-by-case basis.
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Cloud Cost Normalization
Normalizes and structures cloud billing and usage data across multiple public cloud ecosystems
Resource Optimization
Provides rightsizing recommendations across major cloud service providers to reduce operating expenses
Cost Allocation Mechanism
Enables full and accurate allocation of cloud spend, including containers and support charges for comprehensive chargeback
Multi-Cloud Data Aggregation
Supports billing and usage data collection from diverse cloud platforms and service providers
Financial Governance Framework
Enables organizational cloud financial management through structured cost tracking and consumption monitoring
Cost Monitoring
Provides daily AWS cost monitoring with detailed cost summaries and anomaly alerts
Resource Tagging
Enables discovery and tracking of untagged AWS resources to ensure tagging compliance
Cost Anomaly Detection
Identifies and analyzes cost increases and provides root cause insights within 30 seconds
Multi-Channel Reporting
Supports cost report delivery through email, Slack, and Microsoft Teams integration
Resource Utilization Analysis
Generates ZeroWaste Healthcheck Report to identify idle and underutilized cloud resources
Cost Allocation
"Automatically allocate cloud spend across shared resources, untagged resources, Kubernetes environments, and multiple cloud service providers"
Cost Telemetry
"Apply granular unit cost measurement techniques for tracking expenses per tenant, product feature, customer, and development team"
Multi-Source Cost Aggregation
"Ingest and consolidate billing data from AWS, PaaS, and SaaS platforms including Snowflake, MongoDB, Databricks, Datadog, and New Relic"
Anomaly Detection
"Implement real-time cost trend monitoring and automated anomaly detection mechanisms for identifying unexpected spending patterns"
Resource Cost Tracking
"Enable detailed cost tracking for specific Kubernetes workloads and infrastructure components with precision measurement capabilities"
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Customer reviews
Financial Services
Great visibility of Cloud resources
Reviewed on Mar 14, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Being able to see Cloud resources across multiple CSPs from a high and granular level plus recommendations on optimisation.
What do you dislike about the product?
Lack of integration with Dynatrace and no option to automate optimisation opportunities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It’s giving me visibility of all my companies Cloud spend, optimisations and anomalies. This allows me to manage and maintain our Cloud costs.
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Jayna L.
One stop shop
Reviewed on Mar 13, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to connect in multiple cloud services for oversight of spend
What do you dislike about the product?
The reporting can be difficult to navigate
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing visibility, much needed for reporting and governance in my role
Banking
A convenient tool for cloud analysis and optimization.
Reviewed on Mar 13, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Clear cost visibility and detailed reporting.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features could be more intuitive...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps track cloud spending and optimize.
kyle d.
extremely informative and optimistic.
Reviewed on Mar 13, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The visibility we gain from our cloud cost consumption and the added ability to inform various personas within our organisation.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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.
Pawel B.
Great to get Cloud spend mapped to business value and share insights with FinOps stakeholders
Reviewed on Mar 13, 2025
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Intuitive to use and flexible to generate helpful insigths
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost allocation is not very sophisticated, I would like richase spend-based rules to be included
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows me to explain purpose of spend and identify excessive spend and waste, generate cost reductions