CloudHiro saves you time.
Apptio shows you a report.
Apptio Cloudability was built AWS-first, with Azure and GCP added later as additional billing sources to normalize. Azure has always been one of three, not the focus. CloudHiro is Azure-native first: it verifies every invoice, cleans up waste, and manages commitments automatically, with the depth that comes from treating Azure as the primary cloud instead of an afterthought.
Source: CloudHiro billing verification, automated remediation, and automated RI optimization product pages (cloudhiro.com), June 2026.
CloudHiro checks your bill.
Apptio just shows it to you.
Apptio Cloudability is built to normalize and report billing data across AWS, Azure, and GCP, a genuinely useful consolidation layer. What it doesn't do is verify that the bill is correct. CloudHiro continuously checks every invoice against your contracted rates, EA pricing, and committed discounts across Azure, AWS, and GCP, catching billing errors and missed discounts before you pay for them, automatically.
Automated cross-cloud invoice verification: contractual discounts, RI rates, and billing errors caught continuously, with automated dispute filing.
Normalizes and reports billing data across clouds. No dedicated layer that verifies the bill itself is accurate against your contract.
Most platforms treat Azure as an afterthought.
CloudHiro is Azure-native.
Apptio Cloudability, like most multi-cloud platforms, was built AWS-first, with Azure and GCP folded in afterward as additional billing sources to normalize. That's why the depth isn't there: no Azure-specific waste signatures, no native Log Analytics / Azure Monitor integration, no billing verification tuned to EA pricing. CloudHiro starts from the opposite direction: Azure-native by design, with multi-cloud support built around that core instead of the other way around.
Azure-native scanning across 120+ services, with billing-level depth a cloud-agnostic platform isn't built to surface.
Built AWS-first, with Azure treated as one of several billing sources added afterward to normalize, not a primary design focus.
Apptio finds waste.
CloudHiro removes it.
Cloudability's machine-learning recommendations are a real strength: it will tell you what's idle. But someone on your team still has to act on every line, one by one. CloudHiro closes that loop. Every finding comes with the exact action, the CLI command, the risk level, and the estimated saving, then executes automatically or with one click, your choice, with a full audit trail and native Jira / ServiceNow / Slack sync.
Full remediation loop: detect, recommend, and execute, automatically or one-click, with Jira/ServiceNow/Slack built in.
Surfaces ML-driven recommendations for your team to action manually, line by line.
Apptio recommends a purchase.
CloudHiro runs the portfolio.
Cloudability's ML-driven RI recommendations give you visibility into what to buy. CloudHiro goes further, managing your entire Reserved Instance and Savings Plan portfolio continuously across Azure and AWS, reshaping commitments as usage shifts, without a quarterly re-evaluation project.
Continuous, portfolio-level RI & Savings Plan management: purchasing, reshaping, and optimizing automatically across Azure and AWS.
Machine Learning RI recommendations to inform manual purchase decisions.
Great at reporting the bill. Built to lower it.
Apptio will tell your CFO exactly what was spent, in beautifully formatted reports, with Azure as one of three clouds it treats the same way. CloudHiro tells your CFO the same thing, but starts from Azure-native depth: automatically verifying the bill, cleaning up the waste, and optimizing the commitments behind it, so your team spends time on strategy instead of spreadsheets.
See what CloudHiro finds on your own Azure bill.
Book a demo and see it run against your real cloud spend.
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