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Scalr vs VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Scalr
Ranking in Cloud Management
25th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth
Ranking in Cloud Management
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Cost Management (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of Scalr is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is 2.2%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth2.2%
Scalr1.1%
Other96.7%
Cloud Management
 

Featured Reviews

Prabhu Shankar - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized IaC workflows have reduced overhead but run‑based pricing still needs improvement
The best features Scalr offers include centralized state execution and flexible GitOps to CLI workflows, which are its main strengths. Centralized state execution helps my team by giving us more control over what happens on the execution agents. I use the GitOps CLI workflows in my daily work because they are easy to monitor, rather than giving access to all local providers.
Sasikiran Sakalabattina - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Infrastructure engineer at Tech Mahindra Limited
Centralized dashboards have optimized multi-cloud costs and improved financial governance
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is a powerful cloud management platform, but there are areas for improvement. I would prefer to see more AI-driven insights that not only recommend optimization but also suggest automated remediation actions. Real-time cost synchronization could be faster, as billing data sometimes has delays. More customized dashboards and report templates would help teams tailor their needs better. Kubernetes cost visibility could be more granular for centralized workloads. Integration with ITSM and automation tools such as ServiceNow and Ansible could be enhanced. Simplifying initial onboarding and policy configuration would also improve the experience for new users. These enhancements would make the platform even more efficient for enterprise cloud operations. This tool is a mature and relevant cloud management platform with several areas that could be enhanced. I would prefer to see more advanced AI capabilities providing predictive insights and automated remediation for common optimization tasks. Better, faster synchronization of cloud billing and utilization data would enable near real-time cost monitoring. I want more customizable dashboards and executive reports tailored for different stakeholders such as FinOps, infrastructure, and management teams. Improving Kubernetes container cost visibility at the pod level is also necessary. I would prefer to see stronger AI-driven automation, faster real-time cost updates, more customizable dashboards, deeper Kubernetes cost visibility, enhanced DevOps integrations, and a simpler onboarding process as areas needing improvement. These enhancements would further increase operational efficiency and make the platform more valuable for enterprise cloud management.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Scalr has positively impacted my organization by providing much less overhead for the creation of Terraform and other CLI workflows."
"After all the years of helping enterprises implement API strategies at SmartBear, I can confidently say Scalr is what the industry has been waiting for."
"I was able to deal with requests without needing every server on; I could turn them off."
"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth has helped me achieve twenty to thirty percent cloud cost optimization and save thirty to forty percent of the time."
"The dashboard helps to streamline cloud management practices, which is a good thing."
"We use dashboards quite heavily, but one of the features that have really stood out is some of the policies we've created to alert us of particular situations."
"Overall, it's one of the best products because it's easy to use and has a great dashboard."
"The solution is good for cloud cost management."
"There are two major reasons we are very interested in VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth: First, the observability we can build into VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth allows us to determine what is happening before any service fails, and we are positioned to fix things preventively."
"We are able to create an internal price of the product that we can then sell to clients. We get the cost plan at a good discount and then resell it with a mark up to our enterprise-level clients. This flexibility in pricing is one of the solution's best features."
"The solution is useful for cloud transparency and visibility in reports and dashboards that I have generated, especially the pre-populated dashboards."
 

Cons

"We did use AWS autoscaling but Rackspace left something to be desired."
"Scalr could be improved because it is another delivery stack, and understanding Terraform is necessary to use it effectively."
"Regarding licensing, if I buy a licensing key, it is beneficial, but if I have a lesser standing, it is not as good."
"The solution doesn't offer the best functionality, unfortunately. Some features just simply aren't on offer. The solution needs to offer more product milestones."
"The problem is how the new company decided to package the products and destroy all the old VMWare ecosystem that they had for partners and for all the tools that the partners had."
"The Perspectives feature could be better. I would like to have more automation and flexibility to put in data and react to a certain event."
"The performance and accuracy of Cloud Health need to be improved."
"I am not really sure if I have seen a return on investment from using VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth. I have not noticed money saved, time saved, or fewer employees needed."
"CloudHealth doesn't have that capability; they can't reach down to that level right now."
"I have not seen a return on investment with VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth, as it is a monitoring tool."
"VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth can improve by introducing real-time cost visibility and alerting so that we can better act on that."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I give the cost of the solution an eight out of ten."
"The licensing fees depend on how big the company is. If you are a larger company then you have a better contract with a better price. The price is different for a small company."
"CloudHealth has a subscription-based model."
"There could be flexibility in pricing for the product."
"The pricing is competitive and while other products are good they are considerably more expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
21%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Scalr?
Scalr can be improved by logical simplification, wrapping complex logic into reusable functions to keep main queries readable. Data validation using functions like is null provides default values w...
What is your primary use case for Scalr?
Scalr refers to several distinct technologies, with the most common modern use case involving API documentation and database function. Scalr is a modern alternative to Swagger UI used for creative ...
What advice do you have for others considering Scalr?
Scalr is deployed on-premises only because Scalr is a physical quantity fully described by magnitude value. Regarding the mathematical engine and scripting language, the core features are generally...
What needs improvement with CloudHealth?
One of the things we struggle with today is the integration between VMWare and our operating systems. That is where the flaws happen. We are a Red Hat shop. The integration between both needs to be...
What is your primary use case for CloudHealth?
VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth is used for our complete e-commerce platform. We predominantly use VMWare Tanzu CloudHealth for high availability systems. We do not use it for cost considerations because ...
 

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Sample Customers

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