U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data · FinOps Profile

Fiscaldata Finops

FinOps view of Treasury Fiscal Data usage. There is no vendor cost: the API is a free public U.S. Government service with no fees, no API key, and no billing. The only costs a consumer incurs are their own - the compute, storage, and egress for calling the API, ingesting the responses, and retaining or reprocessing the data downstream. FinOps discipline here is about controlling your own data-transfer and processing footprint (avoid re-pulling full datasets, filter server-side, cache results) rather than managing a provider invoice.

Fiscaldata Finops is the FinOps profile for U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 2 billable meters, billed in USD, on a none cycle, and pricing category free.

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

Tagged areas include Government Data, Treasury, Open Data, Public Domain, and FinOps.

Category: Government Open Data Pricing: Free Billing: None FOCUS v1.3
Government DataTreasuryOpen DataPublic DomainFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

Usage

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
U.S. Bureau of the Fiscal Service
PricingCategory
Free
ProviderName
U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data
PublisherName
U.S. Bureau of the Fiscal Service
ServiceCategory
Government Open Data
ServiceName
Treasury Fiscal Data API

Meters

api_requests
Unit: requests
Requests made to Fiscal Data endpoints. No provider charge; drives only your own egress and compute.
data_transfer
Unit: bytes
Response payload transferred and ingested by the consumer. No provider charge; a consumer-side infrastructure cost.

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