# Vantage

> Vantage is a cloud cost management platform. It imports cost and usage data from cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Datadog, Snowflake, and others) and provides cost reports, budgets, forecasts, anomaly alerts, and savings recommendations.

This file lists resources for AI agents working on behalf of a person. The `/agents` endpoints on this host are not part of the Vantage API, are not in its OpenAPI spec, and may change without notice. Read the linked docs each time you integrate instead of relying on a cached copy.

## Agents

An agent can create a Vantage account for a person and connect cost providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic entirely over HTTP. Connecting AWS and choosing a paid plan need the person in the console.

- [auth.md](https://console.vantage.sh/auth.md): How an agent registers for Vantage on a person's behalf, gets an API token, and connects a cost provider, in the auth.md format.
- [Create a Vantage account](https://console.vantage.sh/agents/accounts.md): Sign a person up for a new Vantage account and check whether they have finished setting it up.

## Optional

- [Vantage MCP server](https://docs.vantage.sh/vantage_mcp): Query cost data from an agent through the hosted MCP server, which has the person sign in through OAuth.
- [Vantage API](https://docs.vantage.sh/api): The versioned REST API. Use the `api_token` returned by account creation, or an API token a signed-in person creates.