Formance · FinOps Profile

Formance Finops

FinOps view of Formance spend. Formance can be consumed as free, self-hosted open-source components (where cost is your own infrastructure and operations) or as managed Formance Cloud (quoted by sales on a usage / volume basis, with Enterprise agreements). Because Formance itself moves money, cost management spans two layers: the platform cost of running Formance, and the downstream processing fees charged by the payment connectors it orchestrates.

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

It defines 5 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category usage-based.

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

Tagged areas include Financial Infrastructure, Ledger, Payments, FinOps, and Cost Management.

Category: Financial Infrastructure Pricing: Usage-Based Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
Financial InfrastructureLedgerPaymentsFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Formance
PricingCategory
Usage-Based
ProviderName
Formance
PublisherName
Formance
ServiceCategory
Financial Infrastructure
ServiceName
Formance Cloud

Meters

ledger_transactions
Unit: transactions
Double-entry transactions posted to the ledger, a primary volume driver on Cloud.
payments_processed
Unit: payments
Payments ingested and orchestrated through the Payments module.
workflow_runs
Unit: instances
Flows orchestration workflow instances executed.
connector_fees
Unit: currency
Downstream processing fees charged by underlying payment providers (Stripe, Wise, Adyen, etc.); billed by those providers, tracked here for total cost of money movement.
self_hosted_infrastructure
Unit: currency
Compute, database, and storage cost of running open-source Formance yourself.

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