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Circle Community Finops

FinOps view of Circle (circle.so) spend. Circle is billed as a flat monthly subscription per published tier (Professional, Business, Enterprise, Circle Plus), NOT as metered API usage - so the dominant cost line is the plan subscription rather than per-request charges. The developer platform (Admin API, Headless Member/Auth API, WebSocket) is a feature unlocked by the Business plan and above, meaning API access cost is effectively the delta of moving up to the Business tier. A separate per-transaction fee applies to payments processed through Circle (2 percent Professional, 1 percent Business, 0.5 percent Circle Plus), which scales with commerce volume. This is the community-software company at circle.so, NOT the USDC / crypto company.

Circle Community Finops is the FinOps profile for Circle on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 3 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category subscription-based.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Community, Creators, Memberships, FinOps, and Cost Management.

Category: Community and Collaboration Pricing: Subscription-Based Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
CommunityCreatorsMembershipsFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

PurchaseUsageAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Purchase
InvoiceIssuerName
Circle
PricingCategory
Subscription-Based
ProviderName
Circle
PublisherName
Circle
ServiceCategory
Community and Collaboration
ServiceName
Circle

Meters

plan_subscription
Unit: subscription
Flat monthly platform subscription for the chosen Circle plan tier.
transaction_fee
Unit: percent
Per-transaction percentage fee on payments processed through Circle (2 percent Professional, 1 percent Business, 0.5 percent Circle Plus).
api_requests
Unit: requests
Admin API requests, bounded by the 2000-per-5-minutes-per-IP rate limit; not separately billed.

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