Ternary vs. CloudZero

The future is multi-cloud

Approximately 95% of FinOps tools run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and build features primarily for AWS customers. These solutions invest minimal resources into supporting other clouds—and it shows. In a rapidly evolving multi-cloud world, it’s critical to have a partner, like Ternary, to help you optimize cost and usage across clouds. Below, compare features of Ternary vs. CloudZero.

CloudZero

Platform

Deployment method(s)

SaaS and Self-Hosted

SaaS

Multi-cloud support

Primarily an AWS solution.
Limited support for Azure and GCP.

Agentless Kubernetes monitoring

Built for

FinOps teams, Finance, Engineering, and MSPs

Engineering and DevOps

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

Doesn’t have a channel partner motion

Cloud spend under management

$7B+

$5B+

Features

Cost allocation

Unit economics

Azure and GCP usage recommendations

Commitment-based discount management

For AWS only via ProsperOps partnership

Human-tunable anomaly detection

Case management with bidirectional Jira integration

Pricing and support

Subscription model

Fixed rate based on annual
cloud spend

Tiered, consumption-based
pricing model

Overage charges

Customer Success Manager

Customers and partners who trust us

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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.”

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.”