Archera

Archera is a cloud financial operations (FinOps) platform that helps organizations reduce cloud spend by 20-30% through intelligent commitment management and insured, short-term cloud commitments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Its Guaranteed Commitments (Guaranteed Savings Plans, Guaranteed Reserved Instances, and Guaranteed Committed Use Discounts) provide flexible terms as short as 30 days with risk protection for unused capacity. The Archera Public API exposes commitment plans, commitments, exchanges, metrics, resources, orgs, and uploads over a REST v1 interface authenticated with an API key or OAuth 2.0 (Authorization Code + PKCE), and Archera operates a hosted remote MCP server so AI assistants can query cloud cost data and optimization recommendations directly. A Partner API supports onboarding customers and creating marketplace offers via AWS CPPO, Microsoft MPO, and Google MCPO.

Archera publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Commitment Plans API, Commitments API, Exchanges API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Company, Developer Tools, FinOps, Cloud Cost Management, and Cloud Commitments.

Archera’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, engineering blog, support, pricing, and 24 more developer resources.

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50.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 51/100 agent ready Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessSelf serve

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Developer Tools FinOps Cloud Cost ManagementCloud CommitmentsCost Optimization MCP Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Reserved Instances

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

Commitment PlansCommitmentsExchangesUploads

GET /v1/org/{org_id}/commitments GET /v1/org/{org_id}/exchanges/recommendations POST /v1/org/{org_id}/uploads

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-01 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 50.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 7.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 8.1 / 15

Access Clarity 12.4 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 51/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Pagination +5 pts — share of collection GETs (an array, or one wrapped in data/items/results ...) that declare a page/limit/offset/cursor parameter, a Link header or a next/cursor field; na with no collection GETs

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 40.1 — up to +15.0 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 5

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 10

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Archera Partner API

Partner API for onboarding customers, managing their optimization strategies, and creating marketplace offers through AWS CPPO, Microsoft MPO / ISV-to-CSP Private Offer, and Goo...

Archera Commitment Plans API

API for managing commitment plans

Archera Commitments API

API for retrieving and analyzing cloud commitment inventory, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Azure Reserved VM Instances. Provides access to detailed commitment...

Archera Exchanges API

API for commitment exchange recommendations

Archera Metrics API

High level metrics to track commitment performance.

Archera Orgs API

Endpoints for organizations accessible to the authenticated user

Archera Resources API

API for retrieving and analyzing infrastructure resources

Archera Uploads API

API for uploading billing files for savings analysis

Archera Well-Known API

OAuth 2.0 discovery endpoints (JWKS and Authorization Server Metadata)

Archera O Auth API

OAuth 2.0 authorization endpoints for third-party integrations

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Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Archera.ai Commitment Plans API

OPEN COLLECTION

Archera.ai Commitment Plans Commitments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Archera.ai Commitment Plans Exchanges API

OPEN COLLECTION

Archera.ai Commitment Plans Metrics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Archera.ai Commitment Plans OAuth API

OPEN COLLECTION

Archera.ai Commitment Plans Orgs API

OPEN COLLECTION

Archera.ai Commitment Plans Resources API

OPEN COLLECTION

Archera.ai Commitment Plans Uploads API

OPEN COLLECTION

Archera.ai Commitment Plans Well-Known API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Archera MCP Server

Archera operates and hosts a remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that connects an AI assistant to a user's Archera account — cloud commitments, cost data, and optimizatio...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Review and apply a recommended commitment plan

AGENT SKILL

Optimize commitments via exchange recommendations

AGENT SKILL

Review cloud commitment coverage and savings

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Archera Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Archera Finops

FINOPS

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Archera Openapi Overlay

3 actions · security · archera-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Archera Authentication

apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Archera Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Archera Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Archera Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Archera Agentic Access

28 operations · 9 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

28 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

OAuthScopes

Compliance

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: archera
name: Archera
description: Archera is a cloud financial operations (FinOps) platform that helps organizations reduce cloud spend by 20-30%
  through intelligent commitment management and insured, short-term cloud commitments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
  Its Guaranteed Commitments (Guaranteed Savings Plans, Guaranteed Reserved Instances, and Guaranteed Committed Use Discounts)
  provide flexible terms as short as 30 days with risk protection for unused capacity. The Archera Public API exposes commitment
  plans, commitments, exchanges, metrics, resources, orgs, and uploads over a REST v1 interface authenticated with an API
  key or OAuth 2.0 (Authorization Code + PKCE), and Archera operates a hosted remote MCP server so AI assistants can query
  cloud cost data and optimization recommendations directly. A Partner API supports onboarding customers and creating marketplace
  offers via AWS CPPO, Microsoft MPO, and Google MCPO.
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- amplify-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
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  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
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created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- FinOps
- Cloud Cost Management
- Cloud Commitments
- Cost Optimization
- MCP
- Amazon Web Services
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Reserved Instances
tags_raw:
- Company
- Developer Tools
- FinOps
- Cloud Cost Management
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- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Reserved Instances
apis:
- name: Archera Partner API
  description: Partner API for onboarding customers, managing their optimization strategies, and creating marketplace offers
    through AWS CPPO, Microsoft MPO / ISV-to-CSP Private Offer, and Google MCPO programs.
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/partner-api/partner-api
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - Partners
  - Cloud Marketplace
  tags_raw:
  - Partner
  - Cloud Marketplace
- aid: archera:archera-commitment-plans-api
  name: Archera Commitment Plans API
  description: API for managing commitment plans
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - Commitment Plans
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/archera-commitment-plans-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
- aid: archera:archera-commitments-api
  name: Archera Commitments API
  description: API for retrieving and analyzing cloud commitment inventory, including Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and
    Azure Reserved VM Instances. Provides access to detailed commitment data, utilization metrics, and cost savings information.
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - Commitments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/archera-commitments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
- aid: archera:archera-exchanges-api
  name: Archera Exchanges API
  description: API for commitment exchange recommendations
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - Exchange
  tags_raw:
  - Exchanges
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/archera-exchanges-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
- aid: archera:archera-metrics-api
  name: Archera Metrics API
  description: High level metrics to track commitment performance.
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/archera-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
- aid: archera:archera-orgs-api
  name: Archera Orgs API
  description: Endpoints for organizations accessible to the authenticated user
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - Organization
  tags_raw:
  - Orgs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/archera-orgs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
- aid: archera:archera-resources-api
  name: Archera Resources API
  description: API for retrieving and analyzing infrastructure resources
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - Resources
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/archera-resources-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
- aid: archera:archera-uploads-api
  name: Archera Uploads API
  description: API for uploading billing files for savings analysis
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - Uploads
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/archera-uploads-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
- aid: archera:archera-well-known-api
  name: Archera Well-Known API
  description: OAuth 2.0 discovery endpoints (JWKS and Authorization Server Metadata)
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - .well Known
  tags_raw:
  - Well-Known
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/archera-well-known-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
- aid: archera:archera-oauth-api
  name: Archera O Auth API
  description: OAuth 2.0 authorization endpoints for third-party integrations
  humanURL: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/partner-api/partner-api
  baseURL: https://api.archera.ai
  tags:
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/archera-oauth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference/public-api/public-api-reference
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/archera-plans-pricing.yml
- url: https://www.archera.ai/blog/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/archera-capability-edges.yml
  name: Archera Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/archera-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://archera.ai
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.archera.ai
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.archera.ai
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.archera.ai/api-reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.archera.ai/getting-started/how-to-sign-up-with-archera
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/archera-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/archera-scopes.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/archera-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/archera-well-known.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/archera-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/archera-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/archera-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/archera-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.archera.ai/trust
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/archera-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/archera-domain-security.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/archera-data-model.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/archera-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/archera-llms.txt
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.archera.ai/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://help.archera.ai
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.archera.ai/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.archera.ai/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.archera.ai/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.archera.ai/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.archera.ai/privacy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Archera API — frequently asked questions

Does Archera have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from Archera, including Archera Partner API, Archera Commitment Plans API and Archera Commitments API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Archera API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 9 OpenAPI specifications for Archera, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Archera API?

Archera documents its authentication (apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Archera Authentication.

How much does the Archera API cost?

APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Archera, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Does Archera have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Archera: Archera operates and hosts a remote MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that connects an AI assistant to a user's Archera account — cloud commitments, cost data, and optimization recommendations. Stre

Is the Archera API ready for AI agents?

Archera has a Kin Score of 50.0 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 50.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-01.

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