# Vantage vs ProsperOps

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/vantage-vs-prosperops/

Every value below is read from Vantage's and ProsperOps's own documentation. See https://inetgeek.com/methodology/ for how.

## At a glance

| Criterion | Vantage | ProsperOps |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind of free offer | Free tier | Free tier |
| What the free plan includes | $2,500 of monitored cloud spend, 3 users, 30+ supported providers, email support and SAML single sign-on — SSO on the free tier, which is unusual anywhere in this corpus. | A savings analysis benchmarking you against industry peers, offered at no charge. There is no ongoing free product behind it — the paid model simply has no fee until savings exist. |
| Entry paid plan | $30 a month for Pro, covering $7,500 of cloud spend and 5 users. | No monthly fee to quote. Rate optimisation is billed purely as a share of realised savings, so the floor is zero until it saves something; the workload product adds a flat fee per managed resource. |
| Pricing model | A fixed monthly fee set by how much cloud spend the plan covers — $2,500 free, $7,500 at $30 a month — with a user count attached to each tier. The bill scales with the bill you are watching, which the page frames as the point: fixed-rate plans that do not themselves contribute to the cost problem. | A share of the savings, not of the spend. ProsperOps takes a percentage of savings actually realised as determined by your provider's billing system — the page is explicit that this is not a percentage of cloud spend. Its workload product charges separately: a flat fee per managed resource per month. |

## Where they differ

### What the free plan includes

- Vantage: $2,500 of monitored cloud spend, 3 users, 30+ supported providers, email support and SAML single sign-on — SSO on the free tier, which is unusual anywhere in this corpus. ([source](https://www.vantage.sh/pricing))
- ProsperOps: A savings analysis benchmarking you against industry peers, offered at no charge. There is no ongoing free product behind it — the paid model simply has no fee until savings exist. ([source](https://www.prosperops.com/pricing/))

### Entry paid plan

- Vantage: $30 a month for Pro, covering $7,500 of cloud spend and 5 users. ([source](https://www.vantage.sh/pricing))
- ProsperOps: No monthly fee to quote. Rate optimisation is billed purely as a share of realised savings, so the floor is zero until it saves something; the workload product adds a flat fee per managed resource. ([source](https://www.prosperops.com/pricing/))

### Pricing model

- Vantage: A fixed monthly fee set by how much cloud spend the plan covers — $2,500 free, $7,500 at $30 a month — with a user count attached to each tier. The bill scales with the bill you are watching, which the page frames as the point: fixed-rate plans that do not themselves contribute to the cost problem. ([source](https://www.vantage.sh/pricing))
- ProsperOps: A share of the savings, not of the spend. ProsperOps takes a percentage of savings actually realised as determined by your provider's billing system — the page is explicit that this is not a percentage of cloud spend. Its workload product charges separately: a flat fee per managed resource per month. ([source](https://www.prosperops.com/pricing/))

## Which should you choose?

Pick Vantage if Watching a modest bill without the tool becoming part of the problem. $30 a month covers $7,500 of cloud spend across 30+ providers, and the free tier carries email support and SAML SSO — both of which most of this corpus puts three plans up.

Pick ProsperOps if Wanting the incentive pointed the same way as yours. The fee is a share of savings actually realised, measured by your provider's billing system rather than by ProsperOps — so a month that saves nothing costs nothing, which is true of nothing else in this category.

Consider something else: Vantage — Your cloud bill is large. The fee is set by the spend the plan covers, so the tool that watches the bill scales with it; and the tier ceilings are stated in spend rather than in features, which means outgrowing a plan is a billing event rather than a capability one.

Consider something else: ProsperOps — You need to forecast the cost of the tool, or you want the tool to be a report. The percentage is never stated — "a small percentage" is the whole disclosure — and the workload product adds an unquantified flat fee per managed resource. There is no monthly price to compare.

## Documented by only one

- Free tier: Vantage: Yes
- When the free offer ends: Vantage: Paid tiers carry a 14-day free trial; the free Starter plan itself does not expire.
- When you exceed a cap: ProsperOps: There is no overage, because there is no allowance. The fee is a share of what was saved, so a month with no realised savings carries no rate-optimisation charge.
- SAML single sign-on: Vantage: Supported
- Support on entry paid plan: Vantage: Email support on the FREE tier, alongside SAML SSO — both on a plan that costs nothing.

## Questions this comparison answers

**Entry paid plan: Vantage or ProsperOps?**

Vantage: $30 a month for Pro, covering $7,500 of cloud spend and 5 users.
ProsperOps: No monthly fee to quote. Rate optimisation is billed purely as a share of realised savings, so the floor is zero until it saves something; the workload product adds a flat fee per managed resource.

**Should I choose Vantage or ProsperOps?**

Pick Vantage if Watching a modest bill without the tool becoming part of the problem. $30 a month covers $7,500 of cloud spend across 30+ providers, and the free tier carries email support and SAML SSO — both of which most of this corpus puts three plans up.
Pick ProsperOps if Wanting the incentive pointed the same way as yours. The fee is a share of savings actually realised, measured by your provider's billing system rather than by ProsperOps — so a month that saves nothing costs nothing, which is true of nothing else in this category.