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Esa Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for ESA public APIs. The primary metered surface is the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem (CDSE) free tier, whose cost is zero for registered users up to the published monthly quotas. Beyond free-tier limits, CDSE offers extended quota access through the Copernicus Service framework and the ESA Network of Resources — commercial pricing for these paths is negotiated and not publicly listed. All other ESA scientific APIs (Gaia TAP, ESASky Legacy TAP, Space Weather HAPI, CCI ESGF, Datalabs GraphQL) are provided at no cost to the research community. The principal FinOps risk is unintended quota burn-down of openEO credits, Sentinel Hub processing units, or S3 transfer volume by automated pipelines running without cost guardrails.

Esa Finops is the FinOps profile for European Space Agency (ESA) on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 6 billable meters, billed in EUR, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category free tier with extended quota via application.

The profile maps 7 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Earth Observation, Copernicus, Space Weather, Astronomy, and FinOps.

Category: Earth Observation / Space Science Pricing: Free Tier with Extended Quota via Application Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
Earth ObservationCopernicusSpace WeatherAstronomyFinOpsFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsageCredit

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
EUR
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
European Commission / ESA
ProviderName
European Space Agency (ESA)
PublisherName
European Space Agency
ServiceCategory
Earth Observation
ServiceName
Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem

Meters

sentinel_hub_requests
Unit: requests
Count of Sentinel Hub API requests consumed against the 10,000/month free quota. Each request may also consume processing units depending on the operation type and area of interest.
sentinel_hub_processing_units
Unit: processing_units
Processing units (PU) consumed by Sentinel Hub operations. PU cost scales with the spatial area, number of bands, and script complexity.
openeo_credits
Unit: credits
openEO platform credits consumed from the 10,000/month free allocation. Credit consumption scales with the computational complexity and data volume of batch processing jobs.
s3_transfer_volume
Unit: GB
Cumulative data transfer over S3/OData/STAC interfaces measured in a 30-day rolling window against the 12 TB free-tier limit. Exceeding throttles bandwidth to 1 MB/s.
direct_http_cog_requests
Unit: requests
Count of direct HTTP Cloud-Optimised GeoTIFF (COG) requests against the 50,000/month free quota.
data_workspace_products
Unit: products
Count of offline product orders processed through Data Workspace against the 25/month free limit. This is the only interface for Deferred Available (offline) product retrieval.

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