Quix · FinOps Profile

Quix Finops

FinOps view of Quix spend. The open source Quix Streams library is free (Apache 2.0) and incurs cost only on the customer's own Kafka/compute. Quix Cloud is the billable surface: consumption-based charges driven by the managed Kafka and Kubernetes compute (replicas, CPU, memory) that back running deployments and environments, after a 30-day Professional trial. Enterprise adds custom volume pricing and BYOC/on-premise hybrid deployment.

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

It defines 4 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 Stream Processing, Real Time, Kafka, Python, and Streaming Data.

Category: Analytics Pricing: Usage-Based Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
Stream ProcessingReal TimeKafkaPythonStreaming DataFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchase

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Quix
PricingCategory
Usage-Based
ProviderName
Quix
PublisherName
Quix
ServiceCategory
Analytics
ServiceName
Quix Cloud

Meters

deployment_compute
Unit: compute_hours
Kubernetes compute consumed by running deployments, by CPU millicores and memory across replicas.
deployment_replicas
Unit: replicas
Replica count backing a deployment, multiplying its compute footprint.
managed_kafka
Unit: capacity
Managed Apache Kafka backing an environment (broker capacity, topics, retention/storage).
environment_uptime
Unit: hours
Wall-clock time an environment / its deployments are running.

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