Products

Vantage

Uses AIMCPSkill

Understand every dollar from Agents to AWS

vantage.sh Software Development / Hosting, Deployment & DevOps

AI Benchmark
Desktop
Mobile
Monthly visits
220.1K
Down5.6%MoMSep 2026
Public revenue
Undisclosed
No public revenue evidence yet
Entry price
$30/mo
Higher than 76% of peersNiche median $10/mo
Creators
Ben Schaechter
@bensign· 3,703 followersCo-created with Brooke McKim
Launched
5y ago
2021-01-12 · Est.

Traffic

Monthly visitsData through Sep 2026 · Oct 2026 pending
Events4 changes · 1 marketing move

Marketing moves

Launches, search & content, referrals, promotions
  • Vantage launched on Show HN (2 pts)Launch

    LLM Price to Performance Tool — tldr: We launched - a price to performance comparison tool for LLMs. If you're familiar with ec2instances.info....this is basically the LL…

    Mar 5 · 8mo agoSource

  • Vantage launched on Show HN (6 pts · 1 comments)Launch

    MCP for Ec2instances.info

    Sep 15, 2025 · 14mo agoSource

  • Vantage launched on Show HN (3 pts)Launch

    Ec2instances.info alerts for AWS pricing changes — :wave: Our team recently launched the ability for you to be alerted about AWS pricing changes for existing EC2 instances as well as alerts…

    Aug 29, 2025 · 15mo agoSource

  • Vantage launched on Show HN (1 pts)Launch

    A hosted MCP for analyzing infra costs — Hi HN, I’m on the team at www.vantage.sh and we’re releasing our remote MCP hosted on Cloudflare Workers that gives LLMs context about you…

    Jul 25, 2025 · 16mo agoSource

  • Vantage launched on Show HN (1 pts · 1 comments)Launch

    Ec2instances.info has been re-written

    Jul 2, 2025 · 17mo agoSource

Third-party reviews & case dossiers

Acquisition breakdowns, engineer reviews & open-source metrics
Show HN
2022-05-09Source
Post excerpt:
Link: https://www.vantage.sh/features/per-resource-costs Hi HN, I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage and we just made "Per-Resource Costs" available to everyone, including users in our free tier. Vantage will now show you the cost of each individual AWS resource (EC2 instance, RDS instance, S3 Bucket, SNS Topic, Lambda Function, etc). You can drill down into ea
Show HN
2022-05-24Source
Post excerpt:
Hi HN, I’m cofounder of https://www.vantage.sh/ - I previously worked at AWS and DigitalOcean. Today Vantage is launching Autopilot: a managed service that identifies and applies savings to your AWS account by automating the buying and selling of reserved instances. This is saving early customers over 50% in some cases. Upon opting into Autopilot, if your on
Show HN
2022-08-24Source
Post excerpt:
Hey HN, 10 years after the project began we have updated the UI for the cloud server comparison site known as EC2Instances.info. This refresh brings a sticky filter bar so you can scroll and see what filters are applied, a more compact navbar, and improved UX for comparing instances. I've also fixed numerous long standing UI bugs including: comparisons now l
Show HN
2022-11-03Source
Post excerpt:
Hi HN! I'm the lead maintainer for the Amazon pricing site known as ec2instances.info. When Vantage acquired ec2instances.info a year ago we committed to increasing development velocity on it and we have shipped several major features this year. Today we're continuing that by adding pricing for Redshift and OpenSearch, two AWS services which use EC2 instance
Show HN
2023-04-24Source
Post excerpt:
Hi HN, My name is Ben Schaechter and I’m Co-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh - a cloud cost visibility and optimization platform. We just added support for monitoring OpenAI costs and usage to Vantage and I wanted to share a demo we put together with HN as I thought people might find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzAOU1-uMrM In early A
Show HN
2023-09-26Source
Post excerpt:
My name is Ben Schaechter and I’m co-founder and CEO of Vantage. Previously, I worked at AWS and DigitalOcean. Today we’re launching automated cost reporting via Terraform. As primer, Vantage is a cloud cost management platform that allows you to create dashboards and reports for members in your organization based upon certain infrastructure primitives. For
Console.dev
2024-09-26Source
What engineers like:
Connects to cloud & SaaS accounts to analyze & visualize spend. Costs can be allocated down to users, k8s clusters, business groups, etc. Network flow analysis shows AWS ingress/egress costs e.g. how much is Datadog egress costing? Integrates with GitHub, New Relic, Planetscale and others for full infra cost visibility.
Trade-offs & limitations:
Some common services aren’t supported yet e.g. OpenAI, Cloudflare, but are on the roadmap. In the meantime you can write custom providers and import cost data.
Best suited for:
Teams managing cloud and SaaS accounts should consider Vantage
Show HN
2025-02-04Source
Post excerpt:
Hi HN, We're the team behind Vantage and ec2instances.info and wanted to share a new microsite we're launching. We profiled the number of distinct AWS billing codes across our customer base and found that there are about 60,000 unique ones. We hear all the time that people are confused about the billing codes present in Cost Explorer or the Cost and Usage Re
Show HN
2025-07-25Source
Post excerpt:
Hi HN, I’m on the team at www.vantage.sh and we’re releasing our remote MCP hosted on Cloudflare Workers that gives LLMs context about your structured cost and usage data on AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenAI, Datadog and ~20+ other providers. We wanted to share with this community as we know that infra cost management is already a difficult-to-understand, cumbersome t
Show HN
2025-08-29Source
Post excerpt:
:wave: Our team recently launched the ability for you to be alerted about AWS pricing changes for existing EC2 instances as well as alerts for new instances being launched and what their associated pricing is. We've had this on in the background for a few weeks and it's alerting for new instance types faster than AWS' blog posts hit. Also whenever anything c
Show HN
2026-03-05Source
Post excerpt:
tldr: We launched https://vantage.sh/models - a price to performance comparison tool for LLMs. If you're familiar with ec2instances.info....this is basically the LLM version of that. - - - - I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage posting on behalf of our team that shipped this. Vantage is a cloud cost management platform. We also maintain https://ec2instances.inf

MCP Server & Agent Ecosystem

GitHub · MCP / Skill

Traffic sources

Sep 2026

Traffic breakdown

Channels

  • Organic Search51%
  • Direct38%
  • Referrals8%
  • Other3%

Countries

  • United States26%
  • United Kingdom12%
  • India9%
  • Israel4%
  • Germany4%

Search

Domain authority —Domain registered 2020-04-26

KeywordMonthly volume
vantage206.3K
cursor pricing85.5K
cursor plans28.6K
p4de.24xlarge760
db.r7g.large560

Traffic data: Vaneform

Pricing

Starter
Unknown
Up to $2,500 · 6 Months · 3 Best Effort
Pro
$30/mo
Business
$200/mo
$20,000 of cloud spend · 10 Users
Enterprise
Contact sales
Unlimited tracked cloud spend · Unlimited Users

Trial: 14 Day Free Trial · 2 paid tiers ($30–$200) · Enterprise custom tier · Observed 2026-11-03 · Pricing page

Entry price $30/mo, Higher than 76% of peers; “Hosting, Deployment & DevOps” median is $10/mo.View pricing benchmark

Pages & changes

Tracked since 2021-03-24

Key pages

Weekly snapshots

Changes

  1. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Homepage headline (H1) changed to “Understand every dollar from Agents to AWS”Positioning

    FinOps for Modern Engineering Teams→Understand every dollar from Agents to AWS

  2. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Adopted technology: Microsoft AdvertisingFeatures

    —→Microsoft Advertising

  3. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Adopted technology: MobXFeatures

    —→MobX

  4. Nov 1 · 13d ago

    Adopted technology: iubendaFeatures

    —→iubenda

Design

First-screen visual analysis & :root CSS

Enterprise Clean (Light canvas, balanced density) featuring headline over large product shot layout and product ui screenshot / component visuals.

First-screen preview · click to zoom

First-screen pitch & conversion flow

“Understand every dollar from Agents to AWS”

Headline Over Large Product Shot hero structure paired with book demo / contact sales CTA and no explicit trust bar.

Conversion path: Headline Over Large Product Shot + Product UI Screenshot / Component → Book Demo / Contact Sales

Palette · click to copy

5-D design score7.5 / 10
Typography
8.0
Color & Contrast
7.0
Layout & Spacing
8.0
Craft & Polish
8.0
Distinctiveness
6.0

Structure

Fonts
Inter
Primary visual
Product UI Screenshot / Component
Social proof
No Explicit Trust Bar
Navigation
Full-Width Top Bar
Theme & density
Light · Balanced
Corners & depth
Medium Radius · With shadow
Preview full AI design brief (includes :root CSS variables & layout rules)Style tokens only; never copy brand names, logos, copy, or images
# Design Brief: Enterprise Clean (with Minimal Monochrome)

Trustworthy blue-anchored palette, structured grids, and prominent customer logo walls.

## Design Tokens

```css
:root {
  --background: #f6f7fb;
  --surface: #ffffff;
  --foreground: #111318;
  --muted-foreground: #6b7280;
  --accent: #6d4aff;
  --radius: 8px;
  --font-heading: "Inter", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-body: "Inter", ui-sans-serif, system-ui, sans-serif;
}
```

Color area ratio: Background #F6F7FB (~46%) · Surface #FFFFFF (~28%) · Text #111318 (~12%) · Muted Text #6B7280 (~8%) · Accent #6D4AFF (~6%). Background and surface dominate the canvas; reserve the accent color for primary buttons and active states.

## Layout & Conversion Structure

- Hero layout: Headline Over Large Product Shot
- Navigation: Full-Width Top Bar
- Theme & density: Light · Balanced
- Border radius & elevation: Medium Radius; use elevation shadows to separate layers
- Primary visual medium: Product UI Screenshot / Component
- Conversion CTA: Book Demo / Contact Sales
- Headline hook: Category Positioning Anchor
- Hero components: Large Hero Product Shot
- Spatial layout notes: Headline Over Large Product Shot hero structure paired with book demo / contact sales CTA and no explicit trust bar.
- Visual summary: Enterprise Clean (Light canvas, balanced density) featuring headline over large product shot layout and product ui screenshot / component visuals.

## Avoid

- Experimental navigation patterns
- Low-legibility decorative fonts
- Visual novelty that obscures the value proposition

Implement the UI following the design tokens and layout specifications above: use only these color variables, and reserve the accent color strictly for primary actions and active states. Adopt only this visual style—never copy any reference product’s brand name, logo, copy, or imagery.

Questions & evidence

How much does Vantage cost?
Starter: Unknown; Pro: $30/mo; Business: $200/mo; Enterprise: Contact sales. Observed 2026-11-03. Check the source for current billing terms, usage limits and taxes.Source
How much website traffic does Vantage get?
Vaneform estimates 220.1K website visits in 2026-09. Visits can include repeat visits; this estimate measures web traffic separately from paying customers or revenue.Source
What is Vantage and what platforms does it support?
Vantage is catalogued under Hosting, Deployment & DevOps: Understand every dollar from Agents to AWS. Supported platforms: MCP Server, API.

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