Questions, answered.

The platform enterprise teams use to run their software vendor relationships: know what everything should cost, negotiate from evidence, cut run-rate spend, and catch what vendors slip past you. Analyst-produced benchmarks are the foundation it grew from, around them sits an AI analyst across every contract you own, cost optimizers for cloud and licensing, renewal and negotiation management, and invoice reconciliation.

Not anymore. Benchmarking is where we started and it is still the core credential, but most teams live in the rest of the platform day to day: asking the AI questions across all their contracts, tracking renewals and notice deadlines, running negotiations, reconciling invoices, and cutting cloud and license run-rate. See the 33 use cases or pick your role on the roles page for what that looks like in your job.

Four steps: you upload, we pick it up for review, our analysts benchmark it against thousands of comparable deals, and the finished report is delivered to your workspace. You can follow the status the whole way. Everything else on the platform (Vera, the optimizers, renewals, invoice checks) works instantly, no analyst in the loop.

Self serve. Go to get started and a workspace is provisioned in seconds from your corporate email, with a sample portfolio already loaded. It runs as a sandbox until a background check clears, usually 1 business day. Want to see real work before signing up? Read the sample benchmark report or decode a contract free, both with no account. Prefer a guided start? Request access and our team sets you up.

Yes. The product was renamed Vera AI on July 16, 2026, after Vera, the analyst at the center of the platform. The company remains VendorBenchmark LLC, and the platform, domain, your data, and the team behind it are unchanged. Citable research keeps the established name, like the VendorBenchmark Software Price Index.

Yes, and it is free. Vera AI Academy is 6 analyst-written lessons and a 12 question exam. Pass it and you hold the Certified Software Negotiation Analyst certificate, with a public verification page you can add to LinkedIn. Most people finish in about 30 minutes.

Proposals, quotes, order forms, and signed contracts as PDF, DOCX, or XLSX. The earlier in the deal you send it, the more leverage the benchmark gives you.

The typical turnaround from upload to delivered report is 48 hours. Complex multi-product agreements can take a little longer, and we tell you up front when they will.

Over 12,000 benchmarked deals across 520+ vendors, refreshed continuously: deals we have analyzed, a curated price book of list-price anchors and reseller quotes, external price sources, and an anonymized community pricing pool.

A metric-by-metric comparison of your terms against market low, median, and high, your percentile on each, an overall score, and an analyst summary of where to push. Reports are downloadable as PDF.

The 20 largest publishers are covered in depth and 500+ mid-market vendors are covered continuously. Long-tail vendors are benchmarked on request, and that is included in the normal flow.

Never in identifiable form. Benchmark aggregates are anonymized and pooled, and nothing that could identify your company, your contract, or your specific terms is ever exposed to another customer.

AI contract reports give you an instant machine-generated read on a contract: risks, market position, and negotiation angles in minutes. Expert benchmarks are produced by our analysts and are the defensible number you take into a negotiation. Most customers use both.

Yes, and this is where the platform earns its keep day to day. Ask AI reads every agreement you’ve uploaded, so questions like “which contracts give the vendor audit rights?” or “which agreements can we terminate for convenience?” come back in seconds with the exact clause cited. See the use-cases page for 33 examples.

Self-serve tools that turn an export you already have into a savings plan: cloud cost (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), a cross-cloud workload comparator, M365 license optimization, Claude AI-spend optimization, a VMware VCF licensing calculator, and an Agentforce commit sizer. Each returns identified savings, pricing scenarios, and an AI-written playbook.

Yes. Upload invoices or forward them by email and line-item intelligence reconciles what you were billed against what you contracted, flagging overbilling, unagreed price increases, and quantities you never ordered.

Yes. A renewals calendar with notice-deadline warnings, approvals routing, and a deal execution suite for running a negotiation like a project: mandate, tactics, concession ledger, vendor commitments, and post-mortems.

Coworkers you switch on per task, in four classes: analysts that write documents, watchdogs that monitor your portfolio and the market, autopilots that act under a mandate you set, and workflows your team builds by describing the goal in one sentence. Anything that would leave the platform waits at an approval gate until a person clears it, and every run lands in your audit log. The Agent Center shows each agent's cadence, what it reads, its last run, and where its work lands.

Every figure in an AI-written document is tagged to its source, and a figures ledger traces each cited number back to the stored fact it came from and its as-of date. Negotiation briefs carry a figures-verified badge, vendor intel briefings close with a sources legend, and AI-generated reports pass a groundedness check before delivery.

Yes. Renewals, reports, and alerts on iOS and Android, with push notifications when something needs your attention.

Tenant isolation is enforced with row-level security at the database, so one organization can never read another’s rows. Files live in private storage, downloads use short-lived signed URLs, and everything is encrypted in transit and at rest. The security overview covers the full model, and the security & data FAQ answers the long list your review team will bring.

Members of your own organization, and the analysts who produce your benchmarks. Analyst access is logged: every view and download of a contract file lands in an audit trail.

Yes. TOTP multi-factor authentication is available for all users and mandatory for platform staff.

Yes. You can delete contracts yourself, and deletion removes both the database records and the stored files.

The decoder is free for anyone, there is a free 30 day trial, and the free Renewal Radar plan costs nothing for as long as you want it. Paid plans are annual, and every one of them carries every AI feature and every tool on the site. Growth is $30,000 a year with 2 hours a month of Vera AI join calls. Professional is $60,000 a year with 4 hours a month and up to 2 benchmarks and reports a month by human analysts, with Negotiation Services available as a contingency add-on. Enterprise is from $120,000 a year with 8 hours a month, up to 4 analyst benchmarks and reports a month, and add-ons for a Dedicated Team, Advisory hours, and Negotiation Services on fixed fee or contingency. Full details are on the pricing page.

Yes: Renewal Radar. The free plan keeps your renewal calendar and notice-deadline warnings running, so the dates that cost real money stay watched even if you never pay us. When a trial ends you drop to Renewal Radar rather than being locked out, and your data stays yours. Start one at get started.

Nothing breaks: your data and reports stay available. You can upgrade your plan at any time for more capacity.

Yes. When a trial ends you keep the free Renewal Radar plan and your renewal calendar; there is no lockout and nothing to cancel. Paid plans run on an annual agreement and renew unless cancelled before the renewal date.

Anyone can refer. You earn 10% of what every company you refer spends in their first 12 months as a customer, with no cap. See the referral program for how it works.