PromptLayer · FinOps Profile

Promptlayer Finops

FinOps view of PromptLayer spend. PromptLayer bills a flat monthly subscription per paid plan (Pro, Team) plus pay-as-you-go overage per logged request (transaction) above the included monthly volume, with additional metered allowances for evaluation cell executions and dataset storage caps. Enterprise is a custom contract. Cost is driven by logged request volume, evaluation runs, and seat count rather than per-token inference, which is paid to the underlying LLM providers separately.

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

It defines 6 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category subscription-plus-usage.

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

Tagged areas include AI, LLM, Prompt Engineering, Prompt Management, and Observability.

Category: AI and Machine Learning Pricing: Subscription-Plus-Usage Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
AILLMPrompt EngineeringPrompt ManagementObservabilityFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

PurchaseUsageAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
PromptLayer
PricingCategory
Subscription-Plus-Usage
ProviderName
PromptLayer
PublisherName
PromptLayer
ServiceCategory
AI and Machine Learning
ServiceName
PromptLayer

Meters

subscription
Unit: months
Flat monthly plan subscription (Pro $49/mo, Team $500/mo).
logged_requests
Unit: requests
Logged LLM requests (transactions) within the included monthly plan volume.
request_overage
Unit: requests
Logged requests beyond the included monthly volume, billed per request ($0.003 Pro, $0.002 Team).
eval_cell_executions
Unit: executions
Evaluation cell executions consumed running evaluation reports.
dataset_storage
Unit: bytes
Dataset storage subject to per-plan size caps (10MB/150MB/1GB).
seats
Unit: seats
Active user seats counted against per-plan user limits.

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