--- title: Azure Cost Management and Billing Reviews meta_title: 'Azure Cost Management and Billing Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 12 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Azure Cost Management and Billing works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 3.8 review_count: 12 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # Azure Cost Management and Billing Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Cloud Cost Management Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-cost-management) **Average Rating:** 3.8/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 12 ## About Azure Cost Management and Billing Azure Cost Management is a multi-cloud cost management solution that helps you best utilize and manage Azure and other cloud resources. It allows you to track cloud usage and expenditures for your Azure resources and other cloud providers including AWS and Google. ## Azure Cost Management and Billing Reviews ### 1. Azure cost management can help you get the most out of your money. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2021 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** 1. Billing administrative responsibilities, such as paying your bill, should be completed. 2. Set expenditure limits. 3. Apply data analysis to your costs in a timely fashion. 4. Interface is good, and its easy to manage. 5. Microsoft support is always good for Azure. **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** 1. It has room for improvement in terms of customization. 2. The setup is a little complicated. 3. Keep an eye out for charges that aren't essential. **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Billing administrative responsibilities, such as paying your bill, should be completed. 2. Budget alerts can be done easily. 3. No need to worry about security. 4. Apply data analysis to your costs in a proactive manner. ### 2. Total control of your billing **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paula R. | Sales and customer care, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2019 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** The fact of being able to have all my expenses made in Azure in just one section/panel is great, it makes billing much easier for us, and when we have to pay for these services, we can find and break down where each cost comes from. **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** It may seem somewhat complicated to find certain settings and filters, but once you have it down, everything is found very quickly. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Cost Management and Billing:** If you have many Azure services, it is highly recommended to hire this last one. **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our annual Azure billing, the virtual servers we have with them, we manage them all with Azure Cost Management. It makes the billing process much easier for us. ### 3. One of the best cloud performance software! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Horacio C. | Product Development Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** 2 great things that I like from Microsoft Azure is, one the great performance that this software has pouring resources into the cloud without delays, and also included in the yearly fee a big cloud storage. Secondly, this awesome software is available to run it on Linux system, which makes it great specially for a software like Azure. **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** The factor that makes me not give a 10/10 to this software is the cost. This software is too high in its price, and of course I am talking about a company purchasing it, but still, at 14K a year, its brings second thoughts to someone wanting to try it out for the first time. **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Before, we use a software that gave us error on the workflow process of our company, but then Azure kinds of completed and fixed these gaps that were causing us to loose a lot of money. ### 4. All items cost in one place **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mrugendra R. | Senior Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** Azure gives the feature called as Cost Management. With this, we can track our subscription and pricing of current active plans. It's so easy to use and the user interface is very interactive. **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** The service is good but costly. Other then that there is no disadvantage of this serviece. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Cost Management and Billing:** This is the best software to manage cost at one place. This provides a huge variety of analytics. Just use this software. **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using this software to show full cost and earnings analytics in my business. Analytics provided by this software are so much helpful for quick understand of expence and income. ### 5. Monitoring Cost Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Forum P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** Microsoft Azure Cost Management lets users feel comfortable in their budget setting goals and does not allow you to surpass those goals. The application is a great tool to allow users to see their budget and costs in real time to track their expenses. **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** I like that the platform is completely free for now but I hear that there will be premium charges that occur after June 2018. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Cost Management and Billing:** highly recommend for cost cutting and to accurately stick to monthly budgets in real time! **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking business expenses in real time and being able to stick to budget goals more accurately each month. ### 6. Azure cost Management **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amy H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** Helps keep my company stay in control of cost its is a good way to show everyone where we need to work on reducing cost **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** its not always user friendly I only had the opportunity to work in it a few time i am sure if i was in it every day it would have been much easier **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** its transparent so it really helps me know what is going on with my cost ### 7. Cost management software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** that you can optimize the cloud efficiency and the graphs you can generate **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** takes a while to learn all features and some time to understand the ability of the software **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** statistical analysis is the value it provides to the company. Made profits in 5 digits as a result ### 8. Great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** It was easy to maintain my personal finances and help me stay on track with my finances. I will recommend it. **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** I didn’t have any complaints. I liked it **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was using it for my person income and expenses. ### 9. Helpful for estimates **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** The tool is useful when comparing it to aws management **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** I’ve found the tool to be useful for cost management **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good to think about switching to Azure ### 10. Awesome **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** I really love how easily the GUI of this software is presented **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** The one thing that I didn’t like about this was the cost **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Management ### 11. Azure Experience **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** The ease of navigation. The UI is quite functional. **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** The cost per user can be a dent on budgets. **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quarterly budgets with cost management. ### 12. Helped prevent unexpected costs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Pharmaceuticals | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** I like the fact that azure cost management is so user friendly. **What do you dislike about Azure Cost Management and Billing?** I don't dislike anything about this software. **What problems is Azure Cost Management and Billing solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this to optimize my cost effectiveness ## Azure Cost Management and Billing Discussions - [Which of the following describes the rate at which the cost management for Azure tool is billed Select one answer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-of-the-following-describes-the-rate-at-which-the-cost-management-for-azure-tool-is-billed-select-one-answer) - [What are the most common Azure billing options?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-most-common-azure-billing-options) - [What is Azure billing?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-azure-billing) - [What are the features of Azure cost management?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-features-of-azure-cost-management) - [View Azure Cost Management and Billing pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-cost-management-and-billing/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-21+08%3A08%3A54+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e2ae349d-0548-4543-86d4-a65d9560cf42&secure%5Btoken%5D=de60a3befefccb94b6833fcd573aff3a7819f0ed2fe26720e55391b2a796d931&format=llm_user) ## Azure Cost Management and Billing Features **Operations** - Scheduling - Automation - Multi-Cloud Management - Usage Monitoring **Cost Optimization** - Spend Forecasting and Optimization - Recommendations - Spend Tracking **Administration** - Reporting - Dashboards and Visualizations - Compliance **Agentic AI - Cloud Cost Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making ## Top Azure Cost Management and Billing Alternatives - [AWS Cost Explorer](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-cost-explorer/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (13 reviews) - [IBM Turbonomic](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-turbonomic/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (288 reviews) - [IBM Cloudability](https://www.g2.com/products/ibm-cloudability/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (203 reviews)