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Poolside Ai Finops

FinOps view of Poolside spend. Because Poolside has no public price list, the dominant cost driver is a negotiated enterprise contract covering either a Cloud VPC deployment (AWS/Azure/Google) or an on-prem/air-gapped deployment (Poolside-pre-provisioned hardware or the customer's own NVIDIA GPU cluster via Helm), plus the underlying infrastructure spend for whichever path is chosen. There is no per-token metered invoice from Poolside itself to reconcile against FOCUS the way there is for a shared multi-tenant model API. The one metered, FOCUS-friendly cost surface tied to a Poolside model is third-party: calling the open-weight Laguna XS 2.1 model through OpenRouter, which bills per token under OpenRouter's own invoice, not Poolside's.

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

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

Tagged areas include AI, Foundation Models, Enterprise, On-Prem, and FinOps.

Category: AI and Machine Learning Pricing: Contract-Based Billing: Custom FOCUS v1.3
AIFoundation ModelsEnterpriseOn-PremFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

PurchaseUsage

FOCUS Columns

Meters

enterprise_contract
Unit: contract
Negotiated annual/multi-year enterprise agreement for a Poolside deployment (Cloud VPC or on-prem/air-gapped). No published unit price.
deployment_infrastructure
Unit: hours
Underlying GPU compute, storage, and network cost of running the customer-controlled Poolside deployment (cloud instances or owned hardware).
openrouter_laguna_tokens
Unit: tokens
Tokens billed by OpenRouter (third party) when calling Poolside's open-weight Laguna XS 2.1 model through OpenRouter's API rather than a Poolside deployment.

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