CloudSpend: A better alternative to AWS Cost Explorer
ManageEngine CloudSpend, an alternative to AWS Cost Explorer, provides comprehensive cloud cost management for multi-cloud environments including AWS, and Microsoft Azure.
Why CloudSpend is the best alternative to AWS Cost Explorer
Looking to optimize your cloud costs and reduce your cloud cost management tool spending? This feature comparison will help you choose your best option.
Here's what CloudSpend offers your business:
Transparent pricing
Simplified onboarding
Multi-cloud support
Granular level reports
Transact in multi-currency
33%
Reduction in cost
300+
Cloud cost best practices
60%
Less time spent tracking cloud bills
Feature Comparison
| Feature | CloudSpend | AWS Cost Explorer |
|---|---|---|
| Licensing | Pay-as-you-go licensing model with added advantages of no commitments, competitive pricing, and cancel anytime policy. | Available for both month to month contracts and term agreements. |
| Pricing | Free up to $3,000 per month; 1% of the cloud bill post $3000. Refer to our pricing page to learn more. | APIs priced (No transparent pricing). |
| Consolidated bill reports |  | |
| Daily cost reports | | |
| Monthly cost report | | |
| Monitoring integrations | Site24x7 integrations for comprehensive monitoring, including account-level alarms. | Monitoring integrations with Amazon CloudWatch. |
| Forecasts using historical spending | | |
| Granular level reporting based on Tagging | |  |
| Resource level breakdown | | |
| IT Automations | | |
| Cost Grouping | Supports nine different categories, including region and service. | |
| Automatically generated categories | | |
| Business-unit-level spending breakdowns | | |
| Automated Budget Alerts | | |
| Tag Mapping | | |
| Schedules reports | | |
| Custom reports | | |
| FinOps foundation membership | | |
| Multi-currency | | |
| Multi-Cloud | | |
| Mobile application | | |
| Support | Refer to our support page to know more.! | |
| 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 through the CloudSpend mobile application. | Alerts, but no mobile application. |
CloudSpend is trusted by 100+ brands across the world
