Orb · FinOps Profile

Orb Billing Finops

FinOps view of the Orb usage-based billing platform. Two cost lenses apply. First, Orb's own platform cost is sales-led: a platform subscription fee plus usage-based components tied to billed revenue and/or ingested event volume, invoiced by Orb. Second, and more operationally relevant, Orb is itself the metering and billing engine teams use to meter, price, and invoice THEIR own customers - so the Orb API (events, metrics, prices, subscriptions, invoices, credits, costs endpoints) is a primary source of FOCUS-aligned usage and cost data for the businesses that run on it. Orb exposes per-customer and per-subscription cost breakdowns and a credit ledger that map cleanly onto FinOps visibility and allocation practices.

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

It defines 7 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 Billing, Usage-Based Billing, Metering, Subscriptions, and FinOps.

Category: Billing and Revenue Operations Pricing: Usage-Based Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
BillingUsage-Based BillingMeteringSubscriptionsFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseCreditAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Orb
PricingCategory
Usage-Based
ProviderName
Orb
PublisherName
Orb
ServiceCategory
Billing and Revenue Operations
ServiceName
Orb

Meters

ingested_events
Unit: events
Raw usage events ingested via POST /ingest, the metering pipeline's input volume.
billable_metric_quantity
Unit: units
Quantities aggregated from events by billable metrics that prices charge against.
subscription_charges
Unit: currency
Charges accrued against active subscriptions into draft invoices per billing period.
invoiced_amount
Unit: currency
Amounts issued on invoices, including usage, fixed fees, and one-off line items.
credits_granted
Unit: credits
Prepaid credits added to customer ledgers via ledger entries and top-ups.
credits_consumed
Unit: credits
Credits decremented from customer ledgers as usage is billed.
customer_cost
Unit: currency
Per-customer and per-subscription cost breakdown surfaced by the costs endpoints.

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