Vantage
Vantage is an independent cloud cost management and FinOps platform that serves as a system of record for allocating and optimizing cloud, SaaS, and AI costs. It helps engineering, finance, and management teams understand every dollar, improve accountability, and automate savings across providers.
At a Glance
- Technology companies and modern enterprise engineering teams
- FinOps, cloud economics, platform engineering, and infrastructure teams
- Finance and management teams
- Managed service providers
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Cloud and AI Cost Management
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Latest News
Vantage launched fractional GPU cost allocation support leveraging NVIDIA MIG.
Vantage launched support for Cartesia costs.
Vantage launched Usage Budgets for tokens and provider usage units alongside cost budgets.
Vantage launched native business-metrics imports for GCP BigQuery and ClickHouse.
Products & Services
Cloud cost management platform for visibility, allocation, reporting, unit economics, governance, forecasting, and optimization across cloud, SaaS, AI, and custom providers.
Agentic FinOps experience for investigating costs, anomalies, and optimization opportunities.
AI-enabled business-intelligence dashboard for composing and sharing cost and business-metric analyses.
Allocates shared and untagged costs using rules, usage, percentages, or business metrics without changing the underlying provider tags.
Market Position
Vantage positions itself as an independent, broad FinOps system of record with native integrations across 30+ providers, spanning cloud, SaaS, AI, data infrastructure, Kubernetes, allocation, and optimization. Its differentiators include virtual tagging for hard-to-allocate shared costs, cross-provider visibility, unit economics, and automation. Relevant alternatives include IBM Apptio Cloudability, CloudHealth, Harness, nOps, and Kubecost/OpenCost.
Leadership
Founders
Ben Schaechter
Former product leader at DigitalOcean; TechCrunch described him as a former TechCrunch web developer. He is Vantage's co-founder and CEO.
Brooke McKim
Former product leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is Vantage's co-founder and CTO.
Executive Team
Ben Schaechter
Co-founder & CEO
Former DigitalOcean product leader and former TechCrunch web developer.
Brooke McKim
Co-founder & CTO
Former Amazon Web Services product leader.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Schaechter and McKim initially set out to build a better AWS dashboard. The first product visualized AWS spend, and the team then focused almost exclusively on helping companies understand and manage infrastructure costs before expanding into multi-cloud, SaaS, AI, allocation, and optimization.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Fixed-price SaaS subscriptions based on tracked cloud spend and plan limits, with an Enterprise custom plan; Autopilot additionally charges 5% of the cost savings it generates.
Pricing Tiers
$2,500 of cloud spend, 30+ supported providers, email support, SAML SSO, and 3 users.
$7,500 of cloud spend, Autopilot, virtual tagging, email support, SAML SSO, and 5 users; 14-day free trial.
$20,000 of cloud spend, Autopilot, virtual tagging, email support, SAML SSO, and 10 users; 14-day free trial.
Unlimited tracked cloud spend and users, automated FinOps Agent, Autopilot, dedicated account representative, virtual tagging, and SAML SSO.
Target Markets
- Technology companies and modern enterprise engineering teams
- FinOps, cloud economics, platform engineering, and infrastructure teams
- Finance and management teams
- Managed service providers
- Companies with cloud, SaaS, AI, Kubernetes, or multi-provider infrastructure spend
- Cloud cost visibility and reporting
- FinOps cost allocation, showback, and chargeback
- Cloud and SaaS accountability across engineering teams
- AI/LLM token and inference cost management
- Kubernetes and GPU cost allocation
- AWS Savings Plans and other commitment optimization
- Square
- NASA
- BuzzFeed
- PBS