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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.

agent native

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Archera the way a machine reads it — 16 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Archera scores 46.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 69/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 46.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 11.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 69/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Archera

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Archera. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 10

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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 OAuth API

OAuth 2.0 authorization endpoints for third-party integrations

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)

Scroll within the panel for all 10 ·

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

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

archera-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

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 are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Archera Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

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

Every other property we hold for Archera — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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