IBM Apptio Cloudability provides good cost visibility and reporting features, but lacks all-in-one multi-cloud cost visibility, or any of the advanced automated cloud cost savings features found in Digiusher Multi-Cloud Cost Governance and Management.

Features	Digiusher	IBM Apptio Cloudability
Solution
Deployment Option	SaaS, Dedicated Managed Hosting & Self-Hosting	SaaS
Multi-Cloud Support	AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba (OCI – Coming Soon!)	AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI
On-Prem Cost Monitoring	Kubernetes Only	NONE
Pricing Model	Fixed Annual Subscription Fees	Percentage Cloud Spend
Enterprise Pricing Model with Unlimited Spend, Accounts, Users, Subscriptions	Enterprise Annual Subscription Available	NOT AVAILABLE
Cost Visibility
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback	YES
Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing	YES
Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload)	YES	Cluster Agent Required
Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations	YES	No single Dashboard
Databricks Cost Visibility	YES	No Native Integration
Snowflakes Cost Visibility	Coming Soon!	No Native Integration
Import 3rd Party Costs	Coming Soon!	YES
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards	YES	YES
Custom BI Dashboards	YES	Partial
Forecasting	YES	YES
Cloud Inventory	YES	YES
Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection	YES	YES
Spot Orchestration	YES (through Partner)	NO
Idle Resource Management	YES	NO
Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances	YES (through Partner)	NO
AWS Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
Azure Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
GCP Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
RI / SP Planning and Recommendations	YES	YES
Governance
Budgets	YES	YES
Alerts	YES	YES
Reporting	YES	YES
Administrative
Multi-Currency Support	YES	YES
Role-based Access Control	YES	YES
Full Audit Trails	YES	NO
Training	YES	YES
Documentation	YES	YES
Support Available	8X5 through Email and Support Website	24X7 Available
MSP-Specific
Single Dashboard to manage multiple clients	YES	YES
Billing Engine	Coming Soon!	NO

Summary: 

Apptio Cloudability provides a great set of visibility and forecast tools focused for individual cloud providers, but lacks the all-in-one multi-cloud visibility modern organizations need and have come to expect. They also fall short on automating cloud cost savings features that make saving costs simply and easy. There’s a great deal of manual heavy lifting required to build and maintain good tag hygiene, which is required to fuel their reporting features. They also lack native support for Kubernetes cost allocation, requiring an open source agent to be installed on every Kubernetes cluster in order to get the granular cluster visibility that Digiusher includes automatically. 

If you’re looking to maximize your cloud cost savings through intelligent automation, and get rich multi-cloud and container cost visibility, Digiusher Multi-Cloud Cost Management is the clear winner. Digiusher understands the pressure on engineering and FinOps teams to optimize cloud efficiency, along with the requirement to paint a full picture of multi-cloud costs that includes container costs. Digiusher is a powerful, easy to implement solution that gets customers more value out of the cloud.

Automated Cost Savings:

Getting engineers to take action on cloud cost recommendations shouldn’t be your only path to cloud cost savings. Automation can unlock cost savings opportunities that simply can’t be realized with manual or scripted efforts. Digiusher has a multitude of automation tools that save our customers money, from idle cloud resource management to spot instance orchestration (offered through a partner), and more, that saves our customers up to 90% on cloud costs.

IBM Apptio Cloudability acquired Cloudwiry to automate the RI/SP purchases, but it will be some time before this feature is integrated into the Cloudability portfolio (if ever). This acquisition aside, Apptio Cloudability has no native automated cost savings features available for their customers.

Network Cost Visibility

IBM Apptio Cloudability does not provide any true visibility into data transfer costs in an interactive manner, thereby, making it a very hard for engineers to unlock architecture and design bottlenecks.

With Digiusher, its a cakewalk with built-in dashboards and navigation edited to unlock the data transfers

Time Granularity:

Businesses need to stay on top of shifting cloud costs so that they can catch (and stop) run-away cloud spend as it occurs. A rogue cluster can run up huge cloud bills if not detected quickly. That’s why Digiusher offers granularity in its cost reporting to give an almost-real-time view into possible issues before they turn costly.

IBM Apptio Cloudability only offers daily granularity into its cost reporting and analysis. For many customers, especially engineering teams, that simply isn’t enough.

Enterprise Offering:

Large enterprises, Regulated industries and public sector firms needs to have a secure offering that could run within their own environment under their control. Therefore, Digiusher offers a self-hosted unlimited Enterprise offering in its pricing model making it highly beneficial and apt for such customers. For details visit our pricing page.

IBM Apptio Cloudability offers only SaaS with charging as a % of the expenditure aka. cloud tax.