Archera vs ProsperOps

Keep your savings.
All of them.

ProsperOps takes a percentage of your savings, including on commitments you bought yourself. Archera is free to manage your commitments. You pay only for the flexible-term coverage you choose, and only when it pays off.

The autonomous-
optimization tradeoff

Autonomous tools save you effort by taking the wheel: they buy, sell, and hold commitments for you, then bill a percentage of the savings, indefinitely, often including commitments you already had. Archera takes the other path. Keep control, keep the savings, guarantee the downside.

You stay in control

Manage and automate native AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud commitments for free. Nothing is purchased without you.

Flexibility, guaranteed

Add Guaranteed Commitments on top of native ones. Sell back as early as 30 days, or get the cost of underutilization rebated to your bank account.

Pay only for what you choose

No platform fee. No cut of your savings. No fee on commitments you already own.

Up to 45%

savings on 1-year commitments

30 days

minimum effective term

3 clouds

AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
COMPARE

Archera and ProsperOps,
side by side

Archera
ProsperOps
Pricing
Free to manage and automate native commitments. A premium applies only to the flexible-term commitments you opt into.
A Savings Share, typically 30 to 35% of realized savings. ¹
Fee on commitments you already own
None. You keep 100% of the savings on commitments you procured yourself.
Yes. Savings Share is charged against Inherited Savings, defined as savings from all customer-procured Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. ²
Who controls the commitment
You own and control every commitment. Nothing is purchased without you.
ProsperOps autonomously buys, sells, and manages commitments on your behalf. ³
The downside if usage drops
The Rebate Guarantee returns the cost of underutilization to your bank account.
Managed through laddering. The commitment obligation stays with you. ³
If you cancel
Uninstall anytime. Read-only means there's nothing to unwind.
Billed Savings Share month-to-date, plus a final charge for future savings on commitments ProsperOps already placed. ⁴
Monitoring, laddering, convertible RI automation
Free.
Paid, part of the managed service. ³
Insured Commitments
Included. Shorter terms with the Release and Rebate Guarantees.
Not offered.
THE DOLLAR DIFFERENCE

Archera leads from day one, and never gives it back

In a $70M per year Azure scenario, Archera ramps to near-full coverage in the first month, while ProsperOps ladders in slowly to limit its own risk. Archera is ahead by month six and stays ahead. Even if ProsperOps ladders in aggressively over two years, Archera nets $9 to $11 million more by month 36.
FEE SCOPE

They charge on everything. We charge on a sliver.

ProsperOps charges its fee across your entire commitment portfolio, including the commitments you already had. Archera charges only on the incremental Insured Commitment layer you opt into. Everything underneath stays free, so more of the savings stays with your business.
FREE AND OPEN SOURCE

The part they charge for, we open-sourced

ProsperOps bills a percentage of your savings to automate commitment purchasing. CUDly, our free, open-source CLI, does that part for you across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Discover opportunities, review them with a dry run and a CSV export, and purchase with confirmation and duplicate prevention. No platform fee. No cut of your savings.
View CUDly on GitHub
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Free and open-source
Run it with your standard cloud credentials. Dry-run by default, so nothing is bought until you say so.
2
Safe purchasing
CSV review, confirmations, caps, and duplicate prevention before any spend.
3
Scale into guarantees when you want them
Pair CUDly with Archera for shorter terms and the Rebate Guarantee on underutilization.

Why it matters

ProsperOps takes work off your plate, but asks for two things back: control, and a permanent cut of your savings. Archera keeps the platform free, keeps you in control of every commitment, and charges only for the guaranteed coverage you choose. Keep your savings and your control.
Ideal for:
Teams that want commitment savings and real downside protection without handing an algorithm the keys or paying a permanent cut.

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Comparison reflects publicly available ProsperOps information as of July 2026.
  1. Vendr marketplace listing, ProsperOps pricing
  2. prosperops.com/pricing and ProsperOps Help Center, "How does ProsperOps bill"
  3. prosperops.com, Autonomous Discount Management
  4. prosperops.com/pricing, cancellation terms