# Vantage

> Vantage is a New York-based cloud cost management platform that helps engineering and finance teams analyze, report on, and reduce their cloud, SaaS, and AI spend. Founded in 2020 by former DigitalOcean and AWS product leaders, Vantage consolidates billing data from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, and 20+ providers - including OpenAI and Anthropic - into a single self-service interface built for developers, not just FinOps specialists.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Ben Schaechter (Co-Founder & CEO), Brooke McKim (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~75-99 employees
- **Products:** Cost Reports, Kubernetes Cost Reporting, Budgets, Alerts & Anomaly Detection, Cost Recommendations, AI Cost Management
- **Notable:** Named to Redpoint's InfraRed 100 list of top cloud infrastructure companies, Raised $25M total from a16z, Scale Venture Partners, and Cloudflare's CEO, Publishes the widely cited quarterly Cloud Cost Report as an industry benchmark

## Products & services

- **Cost Reports** — Self-service reports to analyze and allocate AWS, Azure, GCP, and multi-cloud spend across teams, products, and features.
- **Kubernetes Cost Reporting** — Pod-level cost allocation mapped to namespaces, services, labels, and annotations, combined with full multi-cloud context.
- **Budgets, Alerts & Anomaly Detection** — Automated detection of cost spikes and trends with budget tracking and alerting.
- **Cost Recommendations** — Actionable savings recommendations including savings plans and rightsizing.
- **AI Cost Management** — Native cost tracking for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor with per-developer, per-model, and per-project token visibility.
- **Cloud Cost Report** — Quarterly industry benchmark of cloud usage and pricing based on anonymized Vantage customer data.
- **FinOps Agent & MCP Support** — An automated agent for waste elimination and MCP support to query cost data from within development environments.

## Achievements

- Named to Redpoint's InfraRed 100 list of top cloud infrastructure companies
- Raised $25M total from a16z, Scale Venture Partners, and Cloudflare's CEO
- Publishes the widely cited quarterly Cloud Cost Report as an industry benchmark
- Adopted by major brands including Square/Block, PBS, FanDuel, and PlanetScale
- Among the first platforms to unify cloud, SaaS, and AI (OpenAI/Anthropic) cost tracking

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Anthropic integration expanded to ingest Claude Enterprise Analytics (Admin) API data, attributing Claude spend across users and workspaces.
- **2025-07** — Launched Kubernetes Cost Reporting with filtering on services, labels, and namespaces at the pod level.
- **2025-04** — Released the Q1 2025 Cloud Cost Report based on anonymized customer usage.
- **2025-01** — Expanded AI cost management with native OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor integrations plus a FinOps Agent and MCP support.

## Links

- Website: https://vantage.sh
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vantage-sh
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/JoinVantage
- GitHub: https://github.com/vantage-sh

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Last updated: 2026-07-17