IBM · 3 categories · RankedIBM Apptio Cloudability
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT financial management | IT operations and endpoint | 9% | 2 of 159 | 27% | 30 | criticized challenger | |
| Cloud cost management | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 57 of 76 | 43% | 51 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| SaaS management platforms | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 35 of 64 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Torii at 34% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated IBM Apptio Cloudability across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If IT spend is complex (multi-cloud, multiple vendors) and you want dedicated FinOps capabilities: Apptio or CloudZero.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · IT financial mgmt · direct prompt · first choice
“Prioritize leaders like Apptio Cloudability, IBM Turbonomic, or DOIT (top PeerSpot/Forrester) with free trials.” Grok 4.20 · FinOps · negative prompt · first choice
“If your spend is heavily cloud-dominant, Apptio Cloudability is the market leader worth the investment.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IT financial mgmt · direct prompt · first choice
“Do you need enterprise governance, chargeback, and budgeting? → IBM Cloudability or Flexera One” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FinOps · comparative prompt · first choice
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Avoid percentage-of-spend pricing models (like CloudHealth, Cloudability, or Finout's enterprise tiers)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · FinOps · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise giants (like Apptio or Clumio) as their minimums often run thousands per month.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · FinOps · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid enterprise TBM platforms (like Apptio Cloudability) that require heavy implementation” Kimi K2 · FinOps · direct prompt · hard negative
“Avoid if you are a startup, mid-market business, or have a DevOps-centric culture.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FinOps · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as IBM Apptio Cloudability, over the 225 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Apptio Cloudability was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 207 of the 225 answers that named IBM Apptio Cloudability and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
613 of the 613 domain citations in answers naming IBM Apptio Cloudability came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where IBM Apptio Cloudability stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 30 a month (“ibm apptio cloudability”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 3 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on IBM's site (ibm.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 41 across its categories
- Named in
- 225 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 207 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as IBM Apptio Cloudability
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The company
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The company
On record
Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- FinOps for all. Maximize the business value returned from your cloud investments by bringing visibility and financial accountability to the variable, consumption-based spend model of public cloud.
- For
- teams managing cloud services cost across multiple providers
- Customers named
- FactSetIBMIBM Software organizationIBM ConsultingIBM CIO organization
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What IBM Apptio Cloudability's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: ibm.com/products/apptio, ibm.com/case-studies/cio-apptio, ibm.com/case-studies/factset-cloudability, ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-consulting-accelerates-the-future-of-finops-collaboration-with-apptio, ibm.com/new/announcements/operationalize-and-automate-finops-with-apptio-cloudability-and-ibm-turbonomic. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where IBM Apptio Cloudability is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name IBM Apptio Cloudability, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where IBM Apptio Cloudability is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
IBM Apptio Cloudability is among the products AI models recommend first in IT financial management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.
Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.