ManageEngine CloudSpend, an alternative to Microsoft Cost Management, provides comprehensive cloud cost management for multi-cloud environments including Microsoft Azure, GCP, and AWS cloud.
Get CloudSpend for free!Looking to optimize your cloud costs and reduce your cloud cost management tool spending? This feature comparison table will help you choose your best option.
Transparent pricing
Simplified onboarding
Multi-cloud support
Granular level reports
Transact in multi-currency
Reduction in cost
Cloud cost best practices
Less time spent tracking cloud bills
| Feature | CloudSpend | Microsoft Cost Management |
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| Licensing |
Free, 30-day trial and a pay-as-you-go licensing model, with competitive pricing, a cancel-anytime policy, and no commitments |
Get $200 credit to use within 30 days and pay as you go model thereafter. |
| Pricing |
Manage up to $3,000 per month for free; after that, plans start at 0.8% of the cloud bill (billed monthly) from $3,000 to $100,000 and 0.5% of the cloud bill (billed monthly) for bills above $100,000. Refer to our pricing page to learn more. |
Free for up to $200 per month. After that, Microsoft Cost Management for AWS is charged at 1% of the total AWS spend |
| Consolidated bill reports |  |
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| Daily cost reports | |
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| Monthly cost report | |
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| Monitoring integrations |
Site24x7 integration for comprehensive monitoring, including account-level alarms |
Azure monitor integration |
| Forecasts using historical spending | |
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| Granular level reporting based on Tagging | |
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| Resource level breakdown | |
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| IT Automations | |
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| Cost Grouping |
Supports nine different categories, including region and service. |
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| Automatically generated categories | |
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| Business-unit-level spending breakdowns | |
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| Automated Budget Alerts | |
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| Tag Mapping | |
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| Schedules reports | |
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| Custom reports | |
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| Security and compliance | |
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| Kubernetes cost management | |
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| FinOps foundation membership | |
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| Multi-currency | |
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| Multi-Cloud | |
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| Mobile application | |
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| Support |
Refer to our support page to know more.! |
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| Integrations |
Over 10 third-party integrations, like email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Jira. |
Third-party integrations like email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Jira. |
| Alerts |
Receive IT alerts across channels—like email, SMS, and Slack—and receive push notifications on your mobile devices through the CloudSpend mobile application |
Receive IT alerts across channels—like email, SMS, and Slack |
