Plane · FinOps Profile

Plane So Finops

FinOps view of Plane spend. Plane is not metered per API call; cost is driven by seats. Self-hosting the open-source Community Edition (AGPL v3.0) has no license fee, so cost is the underlying infrastructure you run it on. Plane Cloud bills per Admin/Member seat (Free up to 12 seats, Pro, Business), with Guests free at 5 per paid seat, and a custom Enterprise plan. The Commercial self-hosted edition is also per seat. Optimization is primarily a matter of seat allocation and choosing self-hosted vs. managed.

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

It defines 3 billable meters, billed in USD, on a annual cycle, and pricing category seat-based.

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

Tagged areas include Project Management, Issue Tracking, Open Source, FinOps, and Cost Management.

Category: Developer Tools and Productivity Pricing: Seat-Based Billing: Annual FOCUS v1.3
Project ManagementIssue TrackingOpen SourceFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchase

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Purchase
InvoiceIssuerName
Plane
PricingCategory
Seat-Based
ProviderName
Plane
PublisherName
Plane
ServiceCategory
Developer Tools and Productivity
ServiceName
Plane

Meters

paid_seats
Unit: seats
Admin and Member seats billed per month per Cloud or Commercial plan.
guest_seats
Unit: seats
Guest seats, free at 5 per paid seat; tracked for allocation, not billed.
self_hosted_infrastructure
Unit: hours
Compute, storage, and database cost of running the self-hosted Community or Commercial Edition.

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