AWS Cost Explorer vs. CloudZero

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Cost Explorer
Score 8.3 out of 10
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AWS Cost Explorer's interface is used to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. Users can get custom reports that analyze cost and usage data, and analyze data at a high level (for example, total costs and usage across all accounts), or dive deeper into cost and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies.N/A
CloudZero
Score 8.5 out of 10
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CloudZero is a cost tool that pulls in both billing and resource data from across an AWS account, then runs it through a data normalization and machine learning engine to automatically group costs and surface insights. Instead of spending time building dashboards and setting budget thresholds, CloudZero automatically sorts data and correlates cost with the activity that caused it, letting users know how costs are trending.N/A
Pricing
AWS Cost ExplorerCloudZero
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Cost ExplorerCloudZero
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.8 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Testimonials
AWS Cost ExplorerCloudZero
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
Detect sudden increases in spending and drill down to root causes. Review monthly AWS bills to identify top services and accounts driving costs. Monitor costs against budgets and set alerts to prevent overspending. Predict upcoming costs based on historical trends for financial planning. Allocate costs to teams or projects using tags and linked accounts. Check utilization of Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for optimization.
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CloudZero
For a Global Supply Chain SaaS Organization we are able to track the Cloud Resource Unit Economics through CloudZero. Multiple Dashboards, Weekly Reports for identify the Cloud Cost breakup, tracking Cost Anomalies, Identify resource wastage, Multicloud cost spend visibility, AKS, Container, AI Costs visbility and Optimization insights, Proactive alerts on cost spikes,
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Pros
Amazon AWS
  • Cost management
  • Cost Recommendations
  • Forecast
  • Usage
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CloudZero
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • granular data such as Kubernetes usage, cost and optimization
  • spot recommendations
  • granular data such as AI usage, cost and optimization
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CloudZero
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Likelihood to Renew
Amazon AWS
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CloudZero
CloudZero is a Excellent Cloud Cost Management Solution for a Enterprise level Supply Chain Management SaaS Organization
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Usability
Amazon AWS
easy to use, intuitive
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CloudZero
Excellent MultiCloud Cost Management Solution for Global SaaS Companies to track their Multicloud Spend and complete cloud cost visibility for each product line. Supports AWS,Azure, GCP, Snowflake Cloud Platforms. Proactive Cost alerts, AI integration for cost optimization opportunities
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Reliability and Availability
Amazon AWS
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CloudZero
Platform is stable and available most of the time
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Performance
Amazon AWS
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CloudZero
CloudZero SaaS Platform is really good and performance is great.
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Support Rating
Amazon AWS
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CloudZero
Getting great support from CloudZero Support Team.
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Online Training
Amazon AWS
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CloudZero
Online Trainings was really good to understand the product features and explain about Cloud Finops concepts
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Implementation Rating
Amazon AWS
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CloudZero
Easy to Integrate and OnBoard the CloudZero Solution in couple of weeks.
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
It is pretty comparable. We selected Cloudability, Cubecost and AWS Cost Explorer. It provides more comprehensive predictivity
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CloudZero
Turbonomic is still an onpremise solution. Lacks integration capabilities. CloudZero offers Multicloud Cost management solution through their SaaS platform and the integration is simple for most of the Hyperscaler Platforms. No training is required for deployment and to manage and operate CloudZero platform. Great support from thier customer management team by conducting weekly Meetings with customer.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Amazon AWS
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CloudZero
Billing frequency
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Scalability
Amazon AWS
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CloudZero
CloudZero is really scalable to handle Multicloud cost and huge cloud billing information
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Helped to meet the saving targets
  • Better transparency and financial accentuality
  • Detect issues
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CloudZero
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ScreenShots

CloudZero Screenshots

Screenshot of Uses event-driven platform and machine learning to automatically organize costs (without perfect tags), detect, anomalies, and more.Screenshot of Cost Anomaly Alerts let customers know immediately as soon as spend ticks, not just when they’ve hit a budget, to deal with issues in the moment.Screenshot of CloudZero lets companies organize costs into products and features without spreadsheets or relying on perfect tagging.Screenshot of CloudZero lets engineers investigate the source of any cost down to resource level or correlate it with the deployment that caused it. Ingests AWS metadata, CloudTrail, CloudWatch for additional engineering context.Screenshot of Get weekly updates on cost anomalies and changes.