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Vantage MCP connector

The Vantage connector brings cloud cost anomaly alerts, annotations, access grants and billing profiles into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent, so each person asks about spend inside their own Vantage access while every call is logged.

  • How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.

  • One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.

  • Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.

How to connect

How to connect Vantage to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

Two steps, about a minute.

1

In Elaichi

Connect Vantage once

  1. Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Vantage.

  2. Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.

  3. Paste a Vantage API key. One person generates a token in Vantage and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.

The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.

Add connection

Choose a connector.

vantage
Vantage
1Password
360learning
7shifts
Acquire
Active Ants
2

In your AI client

Point it at one endpoint

Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.

Vantage MCP connector for Claude

  1. 1

    Open Customize, then Connectors.

  2. 2

    Press Add.

  3. 3

    Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  4. 4

    Sign in and approve.

On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.

Vantage MCP connector for ChatGPT

  1. 1

    Open Plugins, then press the + button.

  2. 2

    Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.

  4. 4

    Press Create, then sign in and approve.

Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.

Vantage MCP connector for Cursor

  1. 1

    Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

  2. 2

    Add the endpoint under mcpServers.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  3. 3

    Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.

Connect Vantage to any MCP client

  1. 1

    Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.

    https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
  2. 2

    Sign in and approve.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elaichi": {
      "url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.

Use cases

What teams do with Vantage through Elaichi

Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.

  • FinOps

    Triage the week's cost anomaly alerts

    Ask for every open anomaly alert in Vantage, pull the detail on the ones that look serious, and mark them reviewed once someone has looked. No tab switching between the AI and the Vantage console.

  • Platform engineering

    Mark a deploy on the cost chart

    After a release, drop an annotation into Vantage noting what shipped and when, so the next person reading the cost report understands the spike.

  • Finance

    Check billing profiles before close

    List the billing profiles in Vantage, confirm which accounts and currencies each one covers, and catch a misconfigured profile before the month-end numbers go out.

  • Security

    Review who can see which costs

    Ask which access grants and access policies exist in Vantage, who holds them, and tighten a grant that reaches further than it should.

  • IT

    Route anomaly notifications to the right people

    Create or update an anomaly notification in Vantage so the team that owns a workload hears about its cost spikes, and remove notifications for channels nobody reads anymore.

  • Compliance

    Pull the audit log for a review

    List recent Vantage audit log entries, pull a single entry by its ID, and summarize who changed what for an auditor without exporting a spreadsheet.

Try asking

  • “Which Vantage anomaly alerts opened this week and are still unreviewed?”
  • “Add an annotation for today's production deploy on the cost report.”
  • “Who holds access grants to the Finance billing profile?”

See all 226 Vantage tools below

Compare

Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for Vantage

All three can connect Vantage to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.

Elaichi compared with Zapier MCP and Composio for Vantage, by what to check
What to check Elaichi Zapier MCP Composio
Where the AI connects One address for the whole organization. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp A server per member, created at sign-in. An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK.
Control over Vantage tools Allow or restrict single Vantage tools, per role or user. App and action restrictions on the account. Role permissions, down to the action.
Record of calls One audit entry per Vantage call. A History tab of tool calls. A log of every tool call.
Single sign-on SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. SAML on Enterprise. SAML and OIDC on Enterprise.
Price $15 per user per month. 2 tasks per successful call. Billed per tool call.

Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.

Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.

AI tools

Vantage tools for your AI agents

226 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Vantage, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.

See it in Elaichi

What connecting Vantage gets you

6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Vantage account.

The agent

Ask about cost anomalies in plain language.

Get answers from live Vantage anomaly alerts, annotations and billing profiles, not stale exports.

  • anomaly alerts
  • annotations
  • access grants
  • billing profiles

Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.

Which Vantage anomaly alerts opened this week and are still unreviewed?

Add an annotation for today's production deploy on the cost report.

Who holds access grants to the Finance billing profile?

Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

MCP clients

One governed endpoint reaches Vantage from any client.

Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared API key.

ElaichiMCP clients
Claude ChatGPT Cursor

Copy the endpoint

https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Client Connected by Status Last used
Claude
E

Emily Carter

• Connected 4 minutes ago
Cursor
M

Megan Brooks

• Connected 2 hours ago
ChatGPT
R

Ryan Hayes

• Connected Yesterday

Tool catalog

226 Vantage tools, ready without writing code.

Access grants, anomaly alerts, annotations, audit logs and billing profiles, every method covered.

  • List all Vantage access grants
  • Create a Vantage access grant
  • Get single Vantage access grant by ID
  • Update a Vantage access grant by ID
ElaichiTools
Tool Action Description
List all Vantage access grants List List all Access Grants in Vantage that the current API token can access. Returns records with token, resource_token, access, team_token, created_at, and created_by. Optional page and limit (max 1000).
Create a Vantage access grant Create Create an Access Grant in Vantage that grants or denies a team's access to a resource. Returns: token, resource_token, access, team_token, created_at, created_by. Optional body fields: resource_token, access, team_token. Required: resource_token, team_token.
Get single Vantage access grant by ID Get Get a specific Access Grant in Vantage by its token. Returns: token, resource_token, access, team_token, created_at, created_by. Required: id.
Update a Vantage access grant by ID Update Update an Access Grant in Vantage, for example to change the access level a team has on a resource. Returns: token, resource_token, access, team_token, created_at, created_by. Required: id, access.
Delete a Vantage access grant by ID Delete Delete an Access Grant in Vantage by its token. Returns an empty 204 response on success. Required: id.

Toolboxes

Every team gets its own Vantage toolbox.

FinOps triages anomalies, Finance reads billing profiles, Security reviews access, each from a scoped toolbox.

  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • Platform engineering
  • Security
ElaichiToolboxes
Name Source template Tools Created

FinOps toolbox

Vantage · anomaly alerts and annotations

Vantage starter 18 Mar 4, 2026

Finance toolbox

Vantage · billing profiles and spend review

— 9 Mar 2, 2026

Platform engineering toolbox

Vantage · deploy annotations and anomaly notifications

— 24 Feb 27, 2026

Security toolbox

Vantage · access grants and access policies

Vantage starter 6 Feb 19, 2026

Compliance toolbox

Vantage · audit logs and access reviews

— 31 Jan 30, 2026

Leadership toolbox

Vantage · cost anomalies and billing summaries

— 12 Jan 22, 2026

Shared connections

Teammates work through Vantage without seeing a key.

One person connects the Vantage account, shares it with teams, and the API key stays hidden.

  • FinOps
  • Finance
  • Platform
  • Security
ElaichiConnections
Connection Scope Status Access
VA

Vantage (FinOps)

Connected by Emily Carter

Personal • Active 1 team · 6 members
VA

Vantage (Finance)

Connected by Jake Morgan

Organization • Active 3 teams · 24 members
VA

Vantage (Platform)

Connected by Megan Brooks

Organization • Active 2 teams · 11 members
VA

Vantage (Security)

Connected by Tyler Reed

Personal • Needs re-auth 1 team · 3 members
VA

Vantage (Data engineering)

Connected by Ryan Hayes

Personal • Active Not shared
VA

Vantage (Leadership)

Connected by Ashley Parker

Personal • Active 2 teams · 9 members

Audit log

Every Vantage call is recorded, with a name.

See who changed an access grant or anomaly notification, when, and on which resource.

  • When
  • Who
  • What happened
  • Type
ElaichiAudit log
When Who What happened Type

2 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:10 PM

E

Emily Carter

[email protected]

Restriction Created Access

8 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 3:04 PM

J

Jake Morgan

[email protected]

Restriction Updated Access

14 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:58 PM

M

Megan Brooks

[email protected]

Role Assigned Access

20 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:52 PM

T

Tyler Reed

[email protected]

Vantage Users Updated MCP

26 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:46 PM

R

Ryan Hayes

[email protected]

Vantage Anomaly alerts Created MCP

32 minutes ago

Mar 6, 2026, 2:40 PM

A

Ashley Parker

[email protected]

Vantage Anomaly alerts List Toolbox

Launching soon

From answering questions to doing the work

A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.

Automations

A schedule triages Vantage anomalies end to end.

New anomaly alerts are fetched, grouped, drafted into a digest, approved, then annotated in Vantage.

Vantage digest

Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter

  1. ✓

    Schedule

    Every weekday at 8:00 AM

    0.2s
  2. ✓

    Fetch anomaly alerts

    Vantage

    1.4s
  3. ✓

    Group by owner

    Transform

    0.1s
  4. ✓

    Draft the digest

    Agent step

    Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary

    6.2s
  5. Approve the digest

    Needs approval

    Assigned to Michael Brennan

    Approve
  6. Post the digest

    Vantage

    Queued

Collections and dashboards

Vantage cost health, computed with no model involved.

Anomaly alerts, annotations and access grants over 14 days, by team, refreshed on a schedule.

Vantage health

Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the anomaly alerts collection

Live

Anomaly alerts

1,284 ↓ 12%

Annotations

96 ↓ 8%

Needs attention

3 ↑ 2

Updated this week

412 ↑ 9%

Anomaly alerts created

Last 14 days

By team

Share of activity

FinOps 34%

Finance 27%

Platform 21%

Security 18%

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect Vantage to Claude?

Connect Vantage in Elaichi first by pasting the API key from your Vantage settings; there is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Sign in as yourself and Claude can start working with your Vantage anomaly alerts, annotations and billing profiles.

Does Vantage work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?

Yes. Once Vantage is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Vantage once and every client picks it up.

What can an AI agent actually do with my Vantage data?

With Vantage connected through Elaichi, an agent can list and read anomaly alerts, mark them reviewed, add or edit annotations on cost reports, set up anomaly notifications, look at billing profiles, review access grants and access policies, and read audit log entries. Short, concrete asks such as "show open anomaly alerts from this week" work better than long paragraphs of instruction.

Does connecting Vantage give the AI access to every cost report and account?

No. Every call to Vantage runs inside the access of the person who signed in, so the AI sees exactly the anomaly alerts, billing profiles and access grants that person could already see in Vantage. Elaichi can narrow that further with restrictions, and it can never widen it.

Can my team share one Vantage connection?

Yes. One person connects Vantage in Elaichi and shares it with a team, and nobody else ever handles the API key. Each teammate still signs in to Elaichi as themselves, so the audit log names the person behind every Vantage call.

Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Vantage?

Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Vantage anomaly alerts and annotations while blocking deletion of access grants or anomaly notifications. A restricted action is never advertised to the AI client at all, so no prompt can reach it.

What happens to a Vantage connection when someone leaves?

Offboarding a person in Elaichi ends their access to Vantage through every client at once. A Vantage connection they shared keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you disconnect Vantage once in Elaichi, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client together.

Does the Vantage MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?

Yes. Vantage is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.

Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for Vantage?

Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use Vantage. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every Vantage call.

How is Elaichi different from Composio for Vantage?

Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to Vantage: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.

Put Vantage in front of your team

14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.

Works with
Claude ChatGPT Cursor and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
When the trial ends
Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.