# Spot by Flexera

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/flexera/  
**APIs profiled:** 32

Spot by Flexera provides cloud infrastructure automation and optimization solutions. The platform includes Elastigroup for compute workload management across spot, reserved, and on-demand instances, Ocean for Kubernetes and container infrastructure automation, and Eco for cloud commitment management. The Spot API enables programmatic control over all platform capabilities including administration, compute groups, Kubernetes clusters, and cost optimization.

## Kin Score — 44.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 73.5 |
| Governance | 58.3 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 36.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (32)

- **Spot Access Policies API** — Create, update, and manage access control policies for users and groups.
- **Spot Accounts API** — Create, update, list, and delete Spot accounts within an organization.
- **Spot Audit API** — Retrieve audit logs for actions performed within the organization.
- **Spot Billing Accounts API** — Manage registered billing accounts and their configurations.
- **Spot Billing Engine Setup API** — Set up and configure Billing Engine for cloud accounts.
- **Spot Cloud Credentials API** — Link and validate cloud provider credentials for AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts.
- **Spot Cost Analysis API** — Retrieve cost analysis and spending data across cloud accounts.
- **Spot Cost Intelligence API** — Access Cost Intelligence analytics for actionable cost insights and recommendations.
- **Spot Deployments API** — Manage rolling deployments for Elastigroups.
- **Spot Eco AWS API** — Manage Eco commitment optimization for AWS reserved instances and savings plans.
- **Spot Eco Azure API** — Manage Eco commitment optimization for Azure reserved instances.
- **Spot Eco GCP API** — Manage Eco commitment optimization for GCP committed use discounts.
- **Spot Elastigroup AWS API** — Manage Elastigroup compute groups in AWS.
- **Spot Elastigroup Azure API** — Manage Elastigroup compute groups in Azure.
- **Spot Elastigroup GCP API** — Manage Elastigroup compute groups in GCP.
- **Spot EMR API** — Manage Amazon EMR clusters with Elastigroup.
- **Spot Families API** — Manage account families for grouping and cost allocation.
- **Spot Health Check API** — Check the health status of the Spot API.
- **Spot Ocean AKS API** — Manage Ocean clusters for Azure Kubernetes Service.
- **Spot Ocean AWS API** — Manage Ocean clusters for AWS EKS.
- **Spot Ocean CD API** — Manage continuous delivery for Ocean clusters.
- **Spot Ocean ECS API** — Manage Ocean clusters for Amazon ECS.
- **Spot Ocean GKE API** — Manage Ocean clusters for Google Kubernetes Engine.
- **Spot Ocean Spark API** — Manage Apache Spark clusters on Ocean.
- **Spot Organizations API** — Create and manage Spot organizations.
- **Spot Right Sizing API** — Get right-sizing recommendations for Ocean workloads.
- **Spot Rolls API** — Manage rolling updates for Ocean clusters.
- **Spot Savings Analysis API** — Analyze potential and realized savings from cloud commitments.
- **Spot Stateful Instances API** — Manage stateful instances within Elastigroups.
- **Spot Subscriptions API** — Manage event notification subscriptions for Spot resources.
- **Spot Users API** — Create, get, update, and delete users. Manage user permissions and account assignments.
- **Spot Virtual Node Groups API** — Manage virtual node groups (launch specifications) within Ocean clusters.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Flexera Agentic Access** — 119 operations · 65 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Flexera Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Flexera Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Flexera Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (2)

- **Flexera Plans Pricing**
- **Spot Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Cloud Cost Optimization** — Reduce cloud compute costs by up to 90% by leveraging spot instances with automated fallback to on-demand capacity.
- **Kubernetes Cost Management** — Optimize Kubernetes infrastructure costs with bin-packing, right-sizing, and intelligent node pool management.
- **FinOps Reporting** — Centralized cloud cost visibility with chargeback, showback, and commitment utilization reporting across teams.
- **Big Data Cost Reduction** — Run Apache Spark and EMR workloads on spot instances with automatic scaling and cost optimization.
- **Reserved Instance Management** — Automate the lifecycle of cloud commitments including purchasing, exchanging, and selling unused reservations.
- **Multi-Cloud Governance** — Unified access control, audit logging, and policy management across AWS, Azure, and GCP accounts.

## Tags

Autoscaling, Cloud Infrastructure, Containers, Cost Optimization, FinOps, Kubernetes, Spot Instances

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/flexera/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.