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Flexera Cloud Cost Optimization - Advanced Technology Partner
Flexera enables cloud governance teams to work collaboratively with business units and cloud resource owners to optimize spend. Flexera's Cloud Cost Optimization gives a comprehensive set of cloud cost optimization capabilities designed to easily reduce costs across your entire cloud environment.
Reviews (201)
Insurance
Easy to Find Where Software Is Installed
Reviewed on Sep 30, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Easy for me to locate where software is installed
What do you dislike about the product?
Flexera One is an incredibly capable platform, but it definitely isn't a plug-and-play solution. The biggest challenge we experienced was the complexity. The tool can provide deep visibility into software licensing, cloud spending, and asset management, but it takes significant training and effort to understand how to fully leverage its capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Finding unlicensed software.
Information Technology and Services
Excellent IT Asset Visibility and License Compliance with Flexera One
Reviewed on Sep 25, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Flexera One is the centralized visibility it provides across our software assets, licenses, and cloud resources. Before implementing Flexera One, tracking software usage and compliance required significant manual effort across multiple tools. Now, we can automate reporting, improve license compliance, and identify cost-saving opportunities much more efficiently. The platform's intuitive interface makes it easy to access key information, while its integration capabilities help consolidate data from different systems. The onboarding process was straightforward, and the support team has been responsive whenever assistance was needed. Overall, Flexera One has helped us save time, improve decision-making, and gain better control over IT spending.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is very little to dislike about Flexera One. Some advanced features require additional training to use effectively, and certain workflows could be simplified. Overall, it is a valuable platform that continues to improve and meet our needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before using Flexera One, tracking software licenses and IT assets across multiple systems was time-consuming and prone to inconsistencies. With Flexera One, we now have centralized visibility and automated reporting, which has improved compliance, reduced manual effort, and helped us make better decisions regarding software and cloud spending. This has resulted in significant time savings and better control over our IT environment.
Rameez S.
Good software and easy to use
Reviewed on Sep 24, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
We can easily pull reports and customise the columns that we want
What do you dislike about the product?
The Sign in process should avoid the pass phrase
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me track down assets from AMDB which are unassigned
ARUNPANDI J.
Optimizes Spend, Needs Better Usability
Reviewed on Sep 23, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate Flexera One's recommendations, which have helped us save a lot of money by identifying unused components. I also like the detailed information in the exported reports, which makes decision-making easier. Additionally, the Flexera dashboard and the report generation tool are really helpful because they provide detailed information about everything.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the reports have too much information and a lot of recommendations, and I'm expecting some smarter recommendations. The main areas for improvement are usability, automation, and reports. Some workflows require multiple navigations to different windows, which is a bit of a hassle. Also, reporting and filtering should be more flexible. The initial setup was medium complex, which might be improved for easier adoption.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Flexera One helps solve uncontrolled costs and unused component waste, saving us money with its recommendations.
Information Technology and Services
Centralized IT Asset Visibility That Boosts Inventory Accuracy
Reviewed on Sep 22, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What I like best about Flexera One is its centralized view of IT assets. It makes it easy to track hardware, maintain accurate inventory records, and improve overall asset management efficiency.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features have a learning curve, and the user interface could be more user-friendly. However, these are minor drawbacks compared to the overall benefits the platform provides.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Flexera One helps us track and manage our IT assets more efficiently. It gives us better visibility into our hardware inventory, keeps asset information accurate and up to date, and supports stronger asset management across the organization.
Kotaru S.
Flexera One Integrations Visibility
Reviewed on Sep 20, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
best for its single, unified platform that provides consolidated visibility and cost optimization across on-premises, cloud, and SaaS environments.
What do you dislike about the product?
Complex Setup , Limited Resources for Integrations
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Flexera One stops you from overpaying for software and cloud services by finding hidden costs, cleaning up your data, and showing you exactly what your team is actually using.
Esther Sultaana
Centralized dashboards have unified multi-cloud costs and have reduced wasteful infrastructure spend
Reviewed on Sep 14, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
Flexera Cloud Cost Management is excellent for enterprise cost allocation and multi-cloud billing. At one of the companies I worked with, we used AWS and Azure, and what Flexera Cloud Cost Management does in this capacity is aggregate and translate bills into one single model.
For example, with NTT Data, we had AWS and Azure, so Flexera Cloud Cost Management was used in storage allocation and expense. It works with waste reduction and infrastructure resizing. For the engineers, we would leave expensive resources idle or underutilized, so we could continually audit the CPU and storage metrics to pinpoint zombie assets, particularly within storage. We had unattached disks, and there would also be cases that would impact something such as VMware.
What is most valuable?
The best features of Flexera Cloud Cost Management include the cross-provider dashboards. If you are using multiple cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or even Google Cloud, you can put it in one format, and you do not have any vendor silos. This allows leadership to aggregate cloud expenditure, run cloud comparisons, and manage governance policies. Additionally, the right-sizing and waste reduction with storage, VMs, and memory provide actionable recommendations for downsizing options.
Working on the engineering and administration side of infrastructure, I find resource optimization to be the most valuable feature of Flexera Cloud Cost Management on a day-to-day basis. There have been many times when storage would not be used or I would have zombie infrastructure with unattached disks, particularly within VMware, and that can be very costly, as everything is being underutilized and you do not even know it is there. This definitely was incredibly helpful for the infrastructure keepers.
Flexera Cloud Cost Management helps show what is being underutilized within the infrastructure, and it can also give you a billable unit across the different cloud platforms, effective rates of what you are spending per cloud, contract commitments, structures, and different outcome models based on savings and share pricing. These are things I would know sitting in meetings, so it definitely was a big help for the enterprise overall, from a business side as well as the infrastructure side.
What needs improvement?
It has been a while since I used Flexera Cloud Cost Management, and the features that I saw, I thought were great. I believe there is a model for a Spend Tier, and I believe they are looking into it, as it prices total gross cloud consumption, something that business management would examine. I think it is rather expensive, around 40,000 to 60,000 to have that feature, as well as the Asset Entitlement Scope, which tracks spending.
I cannot think of anything else regarding needed improvements for Flexera Cloud Cost Management.
For how long have I used the solution?
I started using Flexera Cloud Cost Management in 2017 and used it for a few years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Flexera Cloud Cost Management is very stable, as I did not have any issues with it, which is critical when testing hardware or software for stability, especially regarding how it looks into waste. It eliminated waste, resource sprawl, and any type of bill shock across AWS ecosystems, focusing on granular, actionable AWS infrastructure telemetry.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Flexera Cloud Cost Management is quite scalable, meaning how accurate cost allocation would be for automated data ingestion, especially when dealing with scaling challenges that come when a company is spinning up more accounts and projects. It has asynchronous pipeline ingestion.
How are customer service and support?
I never had any issues with customer support for Flexera Cloud Cost Management.
Regarding customer support, they provided online case management for active maintenance for their subscription plans, and they had a knowledge base and documentation, which many companies have. They also had account linking assistance to help users with any login issues or profile resets, and they had direct telephone support.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
It was a decision to go with Flexera Cloud Cost Management because it is excellent, but there are others such as IBM, Broadcom's CloudZero, and numerous different solutions. It was a decision of the business leaders to bring that in, which did not mean we did not utilize others, but we brought this in.
How was the initial setup?
At that particular time, Flexera Cloud Cost Management was on-premises, and we used Azure and AWS. With AWS, it integrated cost and usage reports and pushed through the Amazon S3 bucket with the IAM cross-account roles for resource telemetry. For Azure, it connected with Enterprise Agreements and billing profiles, but we used it on-site with private cloud connectors. The way we rolled it out involved a centralized setup integrated with multi-cloud billing feeds, followed by tagging with allocation rules and governance policy automation, which was several different phases, three to five phases, I believe, focusing on governance and then engineering enablement.
What was our ROI?
The savings I saw from Flexera Cloud Cost Management include waste reclaim of idle IP addresses, EBS disk volumes, and overprovisioned virtual machines within the VMware environment, as these things drain budgets without being beneficial in any way. I definitely saw this quickly, and it absolutely maximizes the ROI for long-term commitments with AWS instances or Azure savings plans, making it a plus for container workloads as well.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I did not have anything to do with pricing, setup cost, or licensing, but I can provide some information on it.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before choosing Flexera Cloud Cost Management, I believe some of IBM's options were examined, and there were many different cost management tools considered such as SAP cost management. A lot of different options were reviewed and some were still being utilized while we brought in Flexera Cloud Cost Management to work within a particular aspect of the business.
What other advice do I have?
For others looking at Flexera Cloud Cost Management, I advise that you know your company's needs and consider pricing, what tier you need, and what that tier offers.
If you could adopt a hybrid posture with Flexera Cloud Cost Management, I would suggest it. I gave this review a rating of 8 out of 10.
S L.
Making IT Asset Management Simple and Efficient
Reviewed on Sep 14, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Flexera One is a valuable tool that I use daily to support local IT operations. It provides a clear, organized, and easy-to-navigate view of our IT assets, helping us manage resources efficiently and maintain good visibility across the environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Flexera One offers a lot of capabilities, which is a strength, but it can take some time for new users to become familiar with all the available features. Some advanced reporting and dashboard options could be easier to configure, and certain data integrations may require additional setup efforts. Overall, these are minor challenges compared to the value the platform provides.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It gives us a single, reliable source of information about our IT assets. It helps me quickly identify devices, verify asset details, and support local IT operations more efficiently, saving time and improving visibility across the environment.
Mahmudul H.
Automatic Asset Normalization and Top-Notch Zloud Rightsizing Recommendations
Reviewed on Sep 09, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like its automatic software asset normalization. Another feature I really appreciate is the top-notch recommendations for rightsizing Zloud infrastructure, including reusing unoccupied instances.
What do you dislike about the product?
Like almost any enterprise-grade software, it comes with an initial learning curve, and the team may need some time to adapt. In addition, setting up API connectors for each SaaS tool can be operationally expensive.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Flexera One, we had to manually license complex models; now it’s all automated.
Logatas M.
Excellent Cost Management and Easy Authorization Updates
Reviewed on Sep 09, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Managing of cost, update Authorize and unauthorize software
What do you dislike about the product?
So far no, everything works fine. Its very helpfull
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
License managing part