IBM · 1 category · RankedIBM Apptio Cloudability
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud cost management | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 43 of 79 | 41% | 32 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Best for: Enterprise finance-led FinOps, Fortune 500 companies ... Deepest multi-cloud ingestion” Kimi K2 · FinOps · comparative prompt · first choice
“IBM Cloudability (Apptio/IBM) – Leader in both Gartner and Forrester.” Grok 4.1 Fast · FinOps · comparative prompt · first choice
“You need formal cost allocation to business units, chargeback, and deep integration with existing financial systems.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · FinOps · comparative prompt · alternative
“Best-in-class for financial management and chargeback/showback... The "audit-ready" enterprise choice.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · FinOps · comparative prompt · alternative
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.
“Brand confusion: Apptio was acquired by IBM ... Complex setup and steep learning curve frequently cited in reviews” Kimi K2 · FinOps · negative prompt · hard negative
“requires complex implementation overhead and is generally geared toward massive enterprise finance departments” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FinOps · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“should generally avoid legacy enterprise suites like Apptio Cloudability (IBM)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · FinOps · direct prompt · hard negative
“several sources place it in the enterprise / quote-based tier, which usually means it makes sense only when you have the scale” Perplexity Sonar · FinOps · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 86 of the 109 answers that named IBM Apptio Cloudability and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
420 of the 420 domain citations in answers naming IBM Apptio Cloudability came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
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Names read as IBM Apptio Cloudability
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