--- title: Spot Reviews meta\_title: 'Spot Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 16 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Spot works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.8 review\_count: 16 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # Spot Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Spot but has limited features. Are you part of the Spot team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! The Spot by NetApp portfolio enables cloud operations teams to deliver scalability, performance and security for cloud infrastructure and applications — at the lowest possible cost — through continuous automation and optimization combined with deep visibility and governance. From cloud-native startups to global enterprises and managed services providers, thousands of customers rely on Spot solutions to unlock the full value of the cloud. * * * Seller [Flexera](https://www.g2.com/sellers/flexera) Discussions [Spot Community](https://www.g2.com/products/flexera-spot/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Maya Livni Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Spot. ### Pay as you save Pay As You Go Per Month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/flexera-spot/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![GitHub](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GitHub") GitHub 4.7/5(2,396) ](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) [ ![GitLab](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GitLab") GitLab 4.5/5(901) ](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) [ ![DigitalOcean](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "DigitalOcean") DigitalOcean 4.6/5(756) ](https://www.g2.com/products/digitalocean/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/flexera-spot/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 16 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![sonu k.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "sonu k.") SK sonu k. Cloud & FinOps Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/4/2026 "Cost Efficiency Without Compromise — Spot by Flexera Delivers Both Savings and Stability at Scale" 5/5 What do you like best about Spot? What makes Spot by Flexera genuinely impressive is its ability to harness the cost advantages of cloud Spot Instances — typically 60–90% cheaper than on-demand — without exposing workloads to the reliability risks that have historically made Spot capacity a difficult choice for production environments. It solves a problem that most enterprises have accepted as a trade-off: you can have cost efficiency or stability, but rarely both. Spot delivers both. What we like most about Spot by Flexera is its unique ability to make autonomous infrastructure decisions that are simultaneously cost-optimal and production-safe — a combination that no other tool in our stack delivers. The ML-driven interruption prediction and seamless workload rebalancing across Elastigroup and Ocean means our clients can access Spot Instance savings of up to 90% on compute without accepting any reliability risk, which fundamentally changes the economics of cloud infrastructure at scale. Beyond the cost story, what truly earns trust is how Spot operates invisibly beneath the application layer — containers are rescheduled, nodes replaced, and capacity rebalanced continuously without the application, the engineering team, or the end user ever noticing. For a practice delivering FinOps outcomes across a large, diverse client portfolio, Spot is the platform that makes cloud cost efficiency a default, not an ongoing manual effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? Spot by Flexera is a powerful and technically sophisticated platform — and as with any capability at that level, there is a natural learning curve to unlock its full potential. Every area we initially found challenging has either been addressed through product improvements or is clearly on the roadmap, reinforcing our confidence in the platform's direction. Roadmap we're excited about Deeper agentic automation for autonomous commitment decisions, expanded stateful workload support, and tighter unification across Spot, Spot Cloud Analyzer, and Flexera CCO — a fully converged compute optimization and governance layer we are very much looking forward to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? Enhanced savings reporting and workload-level cost breakdowns now give our teams the granularity needed to build compelling, evidence-backed ROI narratives for every client engagement — at both engineering and executive levels. Full support across AWS, Azure, and GCP — including Kubernetes node optimization via Ocean — means Spot fits naturally into modern containerized and hybrid workload architectures without requiring platform-specific workarounds. Spot's responsiveness to customer feedback and its ambitious roadmap signal a platform that is only getting stronger with each release — and one we are proud to have as a core part of our FinOps delivery toolkit. The core problem Spot by Flexera solves is one that every enterprise cloud team faces — Spot Instance capacity has always offered up to 90% compute savings but carried interruption risk too high for production workloads, leaving most organisations unable to access those economics at any meaningful scale. Spot eliminates that barrier entirely through its ML-driven interruption prediction and seamless workload rebalancing across Elastigroup and Ocean, making Spot capacity genuinely production-safe for the first time. For our practice managing large-scale client infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP, this directly translates into significant compute cost reductions delivered continuously and automatically — without engineering teams spending cycles managing capacity pools, handling interruptions manually, or accepting reliability trade-offs. The benefit extends beyond cost — Spot's automated provisioning, intelligent scaling, and IT discovery capabilities have materially reduced our operational overhead per client environment, allowing our teams to manage more at scale without proportional growth in effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Shreya B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shreya B.") SB Shreya B. Cloud Engineer Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/24/2023 "Spot platform aligns all cross-organizational accounts from different CSP for cloud cost governance" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Spot? Spot platform by NetApp enables us to assign mandatory tags on all deployed resources, which helps in cloud resource cost segregation quickly. We can map our cloud infrastructure footprint under a single dashboard & utlize its recommendations to evaluate potential savings. It provides comprehensive governance control to identify unneded resource deployments and carry out its decomissioning activities in our cloud environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? Since its resource analyzer is cloud-based utility backed up by a cloud provider & region, the availability of Spot instances may fluctuate & may affect the feasibility of cloud optimization strategies. This is applicable to all service platforms that rely upon Cloud Service Provider (CSP), hence its not a major downside, looking at the overall cloud spend management. By streamlining our workloads with Spot insights, we determine cost predictions & estimate resource expenditures based on historical data & changes in the anticipated workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? Spot platform effectively benefits us by allowing us to identify all underutilized & idle resources which can be terminated for saving resource expenditures. We can conveniently tag critical resources which handle our priority workload, so that it can be monitored & won't be accidentally interrupted by other deployments. It offers single pane of glass visibility on various metrics such as cost prediction, resource utilization, and cost trends which greatly helps with our cloud cost analysis. Since it supports cross-organizational accounts from different CSP, we can quickly build a centralized overview dashboard for resource reclamation, instance optimization and cloud cost governance stategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Steve E.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Steve E.") SE Steve E. Vice President, Engineering Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/2/2022 "Free Money" 5/5 What do you like best about Spot? Reducing compute costs by 80%+ is the most obvious thing to like about Spot Ocean. However in addition to that they are a great partner, provide excellent service, domain expertise on compute environments, and are generally excellent to work with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? On Spot Ocean literally nothing. I would like to see better reporting on their Eco side, and I'm excited to see what they do with their Cloud Checkr acquisition and how well that fits into the broader console, but I honestly have not once considered moving away from Spot Ocean in the past 5 years of usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? Our primary use case is running 100% of our container compute on AWS spot instances. We are saving over $10M a year from this alone, with zero performance degradation, resiliency degradation, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/8/2022 "Overall we are a happy Spot Ocean user for around 2 years" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Spot? Spot Ocean is working in the background and in general we don't need to tweak it too often. It is giving us the cost benefits, with basically no toil at all on the long run. We are using Ocean with almost all our EKS clusters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? It is hard to say much that I dislike. Of course, Ocean is an extra layer of abstraction that we need to think about and take it into the calculation, when we are thinking about reserved instances or spot instances. At the same time, utilizing it with Spot ECO, it is relatively simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? We have a fairly seasonal traffic both within a week and within a year. Having many stateless services, our compute resource requirements are fairly varying - following that while also using our instance types and available resources optimally, is a task that is automated for us by Spot Ocean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Andrei D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Andrei D.") AD Andrei D. Tech Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/18/2022 "The product is not complete, with some bugs and pages to be improved. The service of spot is good" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Spot? The service in chat the simplicity of the product a variety of possibilities to use the product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? The brazilian reseller dont know about the product the documentation is confusing some aws permissions is confusing to understanding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Spot: Its a great option to reduce the AWS bill! Easy to use and great results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? I want to reduce my bill with aws in 30%. My best try is with spotinst Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/3/2022 "Easy implementation and great savings" 5/5 What do you like best about Spot? Spot Ocean's big difference for us was the excellent integration with the provisioning tool we used: kops. This made it very easy to configure a new node groups on existing clusters using Spot Ocean. It also made it easier to maintain our infrastructure as code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? Even though we integrate kops, sometimes it doesn't work well in new kops versions. This is expected because the integration development is slower than the development of kops. For us, this is not a critical issue as we are already used to installing earlier versions of kops compared to the final release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? The cost reduction and operational excellence, as this spot instances management is done transparently and efficiently by Spot Ocean. In the first few months after implementation, we got a cost reduction of over 60% with AWS EC2. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") AC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/11/2022 "Great product overall" 4/5 What do you like best about Spot? Significantly cuts cloud cost. Gives applications enough time to gracefully shutdown before evictions most of the time. Syncs very well with AWS EKS and is very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? Pricing is a bit off due to calculation errors. Cost is calculated as a portion of saved expenses - however, these are calculated based on machine types you might not usually use anyway, and therefor calculation is off.. API is not maintained making it difficult to integrate with pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? Cost reduction. Machine type control and label management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Amit M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Amit M.") AM Amit M. Sre Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/6/2022 "SRE for 1 year" 5/5 What do you like best about Spot? The autosacler and its capability to take into consideration PDBs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? The time a spot requests takes to be fulfilled Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? To be able to mange my clusters dynamically without the need to scale modes up and down Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") AI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/19/2022 "Making AWS EC2 Spot Instances a Breeze" 5/5 What do you like best about Spot? Algorithmic choosing of spot instance types by price using scores. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? Would be nice to have a single node group that can do x86 and arm64 without changing AMI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? AutoScaling EC2s based on application demands. Makes management and scaling easy to use and saves a lot of money that is measurable and predictable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/14/2022 "ocean is the future" 5/5 What do you like best about Spot? Being able to manage the containerized workloads using a single UI that includes all the necessary information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Spot? The need to add nodeSelectors in order to use correctly the VNG feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Spot solving and how is that benefiting you? being able to save money with great automation of the recovery process for spots instances that are taken back to the cloud provider Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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