OpenMeter · FinOps Profile

Openmeter Finops

FinOps view of OpenMeter. OpenMeter is itself a FinOps-enabling tool - it meters product/API usage and turns it into entitlements and invoices - so this artifact covers both the cost of running OpenMeter and the usage meters OpenMeter produces for your own products. OpenMeter Cloud is billed on metered event volume; the open-source deployment carries only self-hosted infrastructure cost (ingestion, ClickHouse, Kafka/streaming).

Openmeter Finops is the FinOps profile for OpenMeter 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 Usage Metering, Billing, Entitlements, CloudEvents, and Open Source.

Category: Analytics and Metering Pricing: Usage-Based Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
Usage MeteringBillingEntitlementsCloudEventsOpen SourceFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
OpenMeter
PricingCategory
Usage-Based
ProviderName
OpenMeter
PublisherName
OpenMeter
ServiceCategory
Analytics and Metering
ServiceName
OpenMeter Cloud

Meters

ingested_events
Unit: events
CloudEvents ingested into OpenMeter, the primary Cloud billing metric.
metered_events
Unit: events
Events matched and aggregated by a meter (valid, non-duplicate).
usage_value
Unit: units
Aggregated metered value produced by meters (SUM/COUNT/etc.) for a product's own usage.
entitlement_balance
Unit: units
Remaining metered entitlement balance per subject/feature.
invoiced_amount
Unit: currency
Amount invoiced to customers via OpenMeter billing (Stripe-backed).

Sources