Cloudability was built for forensic FinOps. You need real-time.
Most tools rely on billing APIs that lag by 24 hours to 30 days. Cletrics delivers 1-minute real-time alerting to stop spikes before they become bills.
Cloudability is an enterprise platform built around monthly billing cycles. Cletrics is a real-time cost observability engine. One reports on what happened; the other alerts you as it happens.
Data source comparison: Cloudability relies on cloud billing APIs with up to 30 days of data latency. Cletrics polls live cloud APIs every 60 seconds.
| Feature | Cletrics | Cloudability |
|---|---|---|
| Cost data freshness How current is the spend data shown |
60 seconds | 24–48 hours |
| 1-Minute Alerting Time from spike to notification |
✓ Instant | no |
| Anomaly alert latency When you find out about a spike |
< 60 seconds | Day-after or later |
| AWS, Azure, GCP | yes | yes |
| Kubernetes namespace chargeback | yes | partial |
| No enterprise contract required | yes | no |
| Standalone (no parent platform needed) | yes | partial |
| MSP / white-label mode | yes | no |
| Setup time | 10 minutes | Weeks (professional services) |
| Source-available + transparent hosted pricing | yes | no |
| 90-day savings guarantee | yes | no |
24–48h
Cloudability was designed around monthly billing reconciliation. Its anomaly detection is post-facto: you find out after the billing cycle closes, not when the spike happens.
Weeks
Cloudability onboarding typically involves Apptio professional services, custom integration work, and a multi-week setup. Cletrics is 10 minutes and self-serve.
Opaque
Cloudability pricing is custom-quoted based on cloud spend under management, often $30,000–$100,000+/year. Cletrics is source-available under ELv2 with free self-hosting and hosted pricing at 1% of monitored spend.
Cloudability (now part of Apptio/IBM) was designed to solve a specific enterprise problem: reconcile cloud billing across business units, allocate costs to cost centers, and produce showback reports for the monthly FinOps cycle. It is very good at that problem. The entire data model, ingestion, normalization, allocation, reporting, is built around batch billing data that arrives on a monthly cadence with 24–48 hour API lag.
Cletrics was designed to solve a different problem: knowing what your infrastructure is spending right now and whether that number is normal. That requires a different data pipeline. Cletrics polls live cloud billing APIs every 60 seconds, maintains a real-time cost state per service and region, and applies statistical baselines to surface anomalies as they develop. Not after the billing cycle reflects them.
The distinction matters most at the exact moment it matters most: when something goes wrong. A misconfigured Lambda, a runaway batch job, a GPU instance left running. Cloudability will show you this in the next billing export. Cletrics fires an alert within one minute. That window is the difference between catching a $200 overage and receiving a $40,000 bill.
Cloudability's anomaly alerts fire after the billing cycle reflects the anomaly. By then, the cost is committed and the damage is done. Cletrics fires within 60 seconds, while your team can still intervene, terminate the runaway resource, and cap the overage before it compounds.
Cloudability onboarding for enterprise accounts involves Apptio implementation consultants, tagging strategy workshops, and a multi-week setup timeline. Teams can't get cost visibility until the implementation is complete. Cletrics is self-serve: connect your cloud account, set thresholds, and you're live in 10 minutes. No services contract required.
Cloudability's feature model assumes a dedicated FinOps program with analysts who own the tool, run the allocation models, and produce the reports. Engineering-led teams without a FinOps function can't extract value from the platform. Cletrics was designed for engineers: the alerting model, the dashboard structure, and the setup flow are built for teams that own their own cloud costs without a separate FinOps function.
Cloudability is embedded in the IBM/Apptio platform. Your cost management tool becomes entangled with your broader IBM enterprise relationship. Pricing, contract terms, and support are all tied together. Cletrics is standalone: month-to-month pricing, no parent platform dependency, and data export at any time.
Cloudability tracks against monthly budgets using billing data that's already 24–48 hours old. By the time a budget alert fires, the team has already spent through the limit. Cletrics tracks run-rate against budget targets in real time, alerting when projected monthly spend will exceed budget thresholds, not after it already has.
Yes. Cletrics provides per-team dashboards, Kubernetes namespace-level chargeback, and exportable cost allocation reports. For MSPs, white-label per-client dashboards are included in Enterprise plans.
Cletrics is standalone. No platform dependency, no bundled suite. Many teams run Cletrics alongside existing tooling for real-time anomaly detection, then use Cloudability for monthly FinOps reporting if they prefer. The two are complementary, not mutually exclusive.
Cletrics operates read-only. We never touch your infrastructure. All API access is logged. We can provide access logs for compliance reviews. SOC 2 alignment details are available on request.
Connect Cletrics with the same read-only billing credentials you provided Cloudability. Your cost data begins populating in real-time within 10 minutes. Historical data can be imported if needed.