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Ternary vs. CloudZero

CloudZero provides cost visibility geared primarily toward engineering teams, but it falls short when it comes to financial depth, multi-cloud support, and collaborative FinOps workflows. Ternary delivers a true FinOps-native platform designed for engineering, finance, and operations to work together seamlessly. With comprehensive support for AWS, GCP, and Azure, advanced shared cost modeling, and built-in Slack integration, Ternary empowers organizations to move beyond siloed reporting and take meaningful action on cloud costs. For teams looking to scale FinOps maturity across the organization, Ternary is the best CloudZero alternative for delivering accountability, transparency, and results. Below, compare features of Ternary vs. CloudZero.

CloudZero

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Headquarters

San Mateo, California, U.S.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

Relationship with the FinOps Foundation

FinOps Foundation Premier Member

Cloud spend under management

$7.5B+

$14B+

PLATFORM

Deployment method(s)

SaaS and Self-Hosted

SaaS

Built for

FinOps teams, Finance, Engineering, and MSPs

Engineering and DevOps

Multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP, & OCI)

Primarily an AWS solution.
Visibility for Azure and GCP. OCI not currently supported

FEATURES

Partner platform
(e.g., MSP dashboards, billing, etc.)

Doesn’t have a channel partner motion based on lack of documentation

Agentless Kubernetes monitoring

Has an agent-based approach

Cost allocation

Unit economics

Azure and GCP usage recommendations

Limited Insights available

Commitment-based discount management

For AWS only via ProsperOps partnership

INTEGRATIONS

Jira Cloud

Snowflake

MongoDB

Databricks

Coming soon

PRICING AND SUPPORT

Subscription model

Fixed rate based on annual
cloud spend

Tiered, consumption-based
pricing model

Overage charges

Customer Success Manager

Capabilities to support all phases of your FinOps journey

Ternary empowers teams at all stages of their cloud journey to reach their most ambitious goals.

Data analysis and reporting

Build tailored reports and dashboards using custom labels and scoped views
Forecast with confidence by comparing budgets to historical spend
Assign shared costs fairly with precise reallocation rules
Measure impact by defining unit metrics tied to business outcomes

Ternary's solutions for engineers include anomaly alerts

Cost and usage efficiency

Rightsize resources across compute, databases, storage, and Kubernetes
Manage commitments to maximize discount coverage
Detect anomalies with ML-powered, human tunable alerting
Create Jira cases for investigations and optimization actions

Integrations and deployment

Agentless setup with a cloud-native data pipeline
Flexible API to build custom workflows on top of Ternary
Prebuilt integrations with Jira, Datadog, Snowflake, etc.
SaaS or self-hosted deployment to meet compliance needs

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Don’t overpay for your FinOps platform

Flat-rate pricing includes all capabilities

No additional fees for professional services
No fees for overages

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Ternary platform fundamentals

Support for all major cloud providers

SaaS or self-hosted deployment

SSO integration and role provisioning

Agentless Kubernetes monitoring

Enterprise-ready API

Enterprise-grade security, compliance, and scalability

The Linux Foundation drives operational efficiency with Ternary

“The Ternary team has been great to work with. From the early days of contract discussions to providing product feedback and requests, they act as an extension of our team. Being able to partner at that level is really beneficial to us. Our partnership with Ternary has been successful from an ROI standpoint, because we don’t have to invest in hiring a full-time team for FinOps.”

SHI partners with Ternary for multi-cloud cost control

“Partnering with Ternary was an easy decision for us. Their multi-cloud support, combined with a partner-first approach, ensures we can deliver tailored, scalable FinOps solutions that meet our clients’ diverse needs while maintaining full cost visibility and control. Additionally, Ternary’s unique capabilities, such as case management, empower our clients to efficiently manage complex workflows and capitalize on optimization opportunities.”

Decisions uses Ternary for a single source of truth across AWS, GCP, and Azure

“Before using Ternary, it would take me hours to analyze our cloud costs. Now, I have a single source of truth for all my cloud spending across Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS. With Alert Tracking, I can instantly identify and investigate cost changes, saving me valuable time and ensuring we meet our growth and margin objectives.”

BetterCloud drives gross-margin reduction with Ternary

“Our cloud infrastructure costs were 17% of non-GAAP revenue. We reduced that down to 8% of non-GAAP revenue with Ternary.”

Rackspace partners with Ternary to deliver value to Google Cloud customers

“Ternary is a very well-thought-out cost management platform for GCP—one of the best, from what I’ve seen in the market, and from a feature set standpoint. Ternary is also a very good relation to have overall, if you’re in the GCP business.”

iOCO UK highlights the value of Ternary’s multi-currency support

“Ternary’s multi-currency support feature has been a game-changer—our customers can now view their cloud spend in their local currency effortlessly. It’s a simple yet powerful enhancement that makes cloud cost management more intuitive, transparent, and accessible for teams across the globe.”

Quilyx praises Ternary’s responsiveness

“At Quilyx we’ve been very impressed with the speed at which new features have been added to Ternary and the response and turn-around time for support and feature requests. The team is continuously working on improving the product and takes their customer feedback very seriously.”

Aztek offers multi-cloud FinOps services to help customers optimize cloud costs

“Partnering with Ternary enables us to deliver unmatched multi-cloud support and FinOps expertise. Together, we will help customers achieve enhanced financial control, scalability, and efficiency.”

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