Build for What’s Next, Not What You Committed To.

Archera's Insured Commitments give you AWS, Azure, and GCP savings on terms as short as 30 days, with no underutilization risk even with lock-in. Cover usage that native Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and Committed Use Discounts can't reach, and save around 30% on 30-day terms or 45% on one-year terms, net of premium

Platform9
PubNub
Checkmate
Olaplex
Picasso
Kumu
Horizon3.ai
Cerby
Hex
BitMEX
Daily
Floyo
Attunely
Spec
Cyderes
GPTZero
Platform9
PubNub
Checkmate
Olaplex
Picasso
Kumu
Horizon3.ai
Cerby
Hex
BitMEX
Daily
Floyo
Attunely
Spec
Cyderes
GPTZero
What lock-in looks like
Usage drops in month 5. Your 1-year term doesn’t.
+$ RebatedCommittedPaid for, not usedAdjusts after 30 daysMonth 036912
Native 1-year commitmentPaid for, not usedGuaranteed CommitmentRebatedYour usage
Guaranteed Commitments

Break free of one and three-year term limits

Native AWS and Azure Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, and Google Cloud CUDs, only pay off if you lock in for one or three years. Archera delivers similar savings inside your own payer account on terms as short as 30 days.

What it unlocks

Unlock new ways to buy and save

Guaranteed Savings Plans (GSPs), Guaranteed Reserved Instances (GRIs), and Guaranteed Committed Use Discounts (GCUDs) add flexibility native commitments can’t.

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Cover short-term usage

Cover usage too short-term for a native commitment.

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Choose your trade-off

Trade between higher savings and more flexibility, on your terms.

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Get rebated

Get rebated for underutilization when a commitment can’t be transferred or converted.

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Defer premiums

Defer premiums interest-free while you’re running entirely on CSP credits.

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Servers
Your monthly bill, by month
Native commitmentPaid for, not usedGuaranteed CommitmentCash back
Illustrative: 10 servers or GPUs on a commitment, 4 spun down in month 7. Guarantee premium not shown.
Automatic rebates

Automatic rebates for underutilization

Hold a Guaranteed Commitment through its 30-day or one-year term, and Archera’s Rebate Guarantee automatically reimburses you if you stop fully using the underlying commitment. No credits against future bills. You’re made financially whole right away.

Purchasing plan · EC2 and RDS
Pick a term. Savings already include the premium.
Term30 days
If usage dropsRebate if usage drops
PremiumOnly if it saves
Illustrative. Net savings vs on-demand vary by service and term.
Stay in control

Stay in control of every purchase

Build purchasing plans on Archera’s free platform using native commitments alone, or add GSPs, GRIs, and GCUDs. Each option shows your total savings with the premium already included.

Buy one and Archera converts an underlying native commitment into a short-term Guaranteed Commitment. You’re charged a premium only if the commitment actually generates savings.

◆Proven in production, insurance backed by third parties. Guaranteed Commitments are insurance backed by third parties, using methods your cloud provider approves.
Use cases

Use Guaranteed Commitments to save on

Short-term projects

Roadmap experiments, data analysis, and seasonal workloads.

Migrations and consolidations

Infrastructure transformations where the old environment winds down.

Re-architecting

Moving from IaaS to managed services or serverless.

Generative AI and LLM training

Bursty GPU demand that changes run to run.

Highly uncertain workloads

Usage you can’t forecast a year out.

30-day terms

Commitments that follow your usage

The dashed lines are your commitments, re-sized every 30 days. The shaded areas are what you actually run, including new services as they spin up.

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UsageNew service spinning upGuaranteed Commitment, 30-day termsIllustrative usage shapes
Spec
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…our volumes and our loads change fairly significantly … what we thought was overloaded six months ago is now extremely underutilized today, and we would have just been stuck with that commitment for a year.
Scott TsuchiyamaDirector of Engineering · Spec
See Spec’s story →
Where the premium comes from
The premium comes out of your savings, not on top of your bill.
Your monthly bill, by month
On-demandGuaranteed CommitmentGuarantee premiumSavings you keep
Each month’s savingsIllustrative split
You keepPremium
Illustrative. Premiums are a share of the savings each commitment generates and vary by service and term. If a commitment stops saving you money, it stops costing you money. Native commitments are free on Archera.
Pricing

Pay only when a commitment saves you money

Premiums are calculated dynamically by service, term, and other factors, and shown up front alongside every other option. Managing and automating native commitments is always free on Archera’s platform.

Scott Tsuchiyama, Director of Engineering, Spec
“I think Reserved Instances or general bulk discounts on Amazon are fairly challenging … our volumes and our loads change fairly significantly … for us to go out and buy a one-year subscription for a Reserved Instance is something that we had never really considered because, what we thought was overloaded six months ago is now extremely underutilized today, and we would have just been stuck with that commitment for a year.”
Scott Tsuchiyama
Director of Engineering
Spec

Buy commitments without worry

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