Hyperscaler Cost Comparison
Amazon | Microsoft Azure | Google Cloud
Competitive Pricing Analysis
Compare your platform vs hyperscalers
Platform Providers
Prove your cloud platform economics against hyperscalers
Compare IQ helps platform providers compare their backup and archive economics side by side against Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud using identical workload models.
By modeling identical workloads across providers, Compare IQ enables teams to present clear, data-driven comparisons that highlight cost differences, architectural trade-offs, and long-term storage economics.
Hyperscaler pricing is difficult to model and explain
Platform providers selling hybrid cloud and consumption infrastructure face a major challenge.
Amazon, Azure, and Google Cloud pricing is complex, constantly changing, and difficult to model accurately.
Sales teams often rely on large internal spreadsheets to estimate costs and build competitive comparisons.
This creates several problems:
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Competitive analysis takes too long
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Pricing models are difficult to maintain
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Results are difficult to explain to customers
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Sales teams lack consistent comparison tools
Without a clear cost analysis, it becomes difficult to demonstrate where alternative platforms deliver better economics.
Bottom line: customers can usually see the storage price, but the full expected cost is much harder to predict once egress, API operations, retrieval, and other usage-driven charges are included.
Model and visualize competitive cloud economics
Compare IQ enables platform providers to model how their pricing performs against Amazon, Azure, and Google Cloud under real storage workload scenarios.
Load your platform pricing, compare it against hyperscalers under the same workload assumptions, and adjust variables such as restore rates, service term, and discount levels to show customers how costs change across scenarios.
Sales and solution teams can quickly generate clear comparison visuals that show where their platform delivers financial advantages.
Compare IQ analyzes key cloud storage cost drivers including:
Backup & archive pricing
API operations
Restore activity
Data transfer / egress
Multi-year storage cost projections
Equip your teams to win cloud platform decisions
Compare IQ supports multiple teams inside platform vendors.
Product teams
Model how your pricing competes across real workloads.
Sales teams
Generate clear cost comparison visuals during competitive cloud deals.
Solution architects
Build structured workload cost models across hyperscalers and hybrid infrastructure.
Finance & strategy teams
Analyze long term cost advantages across different infrastructure strategies.
Platform Features
Key Capabilities
Pricing intelligence for cloud competition.
Compare IQ gives platform providers the tools to analyze, model, and communicate how their infrastructure pricing compares against hyperscalers.
By combining workload modeling, multi-year cost analysis, and clear visual comparisons, teams can quickly identify where their platform delivers stronger economics and use that insight in real customer conversations.
Cross-cloud backup and archive modeling
Model workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud to understand how hyperscaler pricing behaves across different configurations.
Platform comparison analysis
Compare hyperscaler pricing against your platform to highlight competitive cost advantages.
Multi-year TCO analysis
Understand long-term infrastructure cost trends across multiple deployment scenarios.
Visual comparison outputs
Generate customer-facing visuals, formatted PDFs, and side-by-side comparisons that help customers understand pricing differences clearly.
Scenario modeling
Test different infrastructure configurations and instantly see how pricing outcomes change.
Who it's for
Built for hybrid and private cloud platform providers
Compare IQ is designed for companies that compete with hyperscale cloud providers and need clear ways to model and communicate their pricing advantages.
These organizations deliver cloud infrastructure, hybrid platforms, or consumption-based services that must be evaluated against AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Compare IQ helps platform vendors demonstrate where their infrastructure delivers stronger long-term economics across real workloads.
Hybrid cloud platforms
Infrastructure delivered with cloud operating models.
Private cloud platforms
Enterprise infrastructure running in customer data centers.
Consumption-based infrastructure services
Pay-per-use infrastructure delivered on-prem or through colocation environments.
Built for infrastructure platforms competing with hyperscalers
Compare IQ is designed for providers offering cloud-like infrastructure and consumption-based platforms.
Representative examples of infrastructure platforms competing with hyperscaler cloud services.
The names are shown for illustrative purposes only and do not indicate customers or partnerships.
Hybrid Cloud
Platforms
Examples include:
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Cisco Plus
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Dell APEX
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Fujitsu uSCALE
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Hitachi EverFlex
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HPE GreenLake
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IBM Storage as a Service
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Lenovo TruScale
Private Cloud
Platforms
Examples include:
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Canonical Charmed
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OpenStack
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Nutanix Cloud Platform
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OpenStack-based private clouds
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Platform9 Managed
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OpenStack
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Red Hat OpenShift Platform
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SUSE Harvester / Rancher-based clouds
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VMware Cloud Foundation
Consumption-based Storage Services
Examples include:
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Cloudian HyperStore
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Dell APEX Storage Services
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Hitachi EverFlex Storage
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HPE GreenLake for Storage
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IBM Storage Utility
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NetApp Keystone
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Pure Storage Evergreen / Evergreen One
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VAST Data consumption services
Tape Archive
Platforms
Examples include:
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HPE
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IBM
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Quantum
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Spectra
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Turn hyperscaler backup and archive pricing complexity into clear, side-by-side comparison.
See how Compare IQ helps platform providers model identical workloads, compare full expected costs against AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and guide customer conversations with confidence.
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Example comparison generated in Compare IQ
Show where your platform delivers better economics
Platform providers often need to clearly demonstrate how their pricing compares to hyperscale cloud storage.
With Compare IQ, you upload your pricing model and run the same storage workload configuration used across major cloud providers.
The platform generates a side-by-side comparison against hyperscaler pricing across:
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Google Cloud
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AWS
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Microsoft Azure
The analysis highlights where pricing differences emerge across storage tiers, lifecycle strategies, and long-term cost projections.
Sales teams can present clear visual comparisons that help customers quickly understand pricing differences and make informed infrastructure decisions.