Saildrone · FinOps Profile
Saildrone Finops
Saildrone's commercial surface is Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) — vehicle leases, per-mission contracts, sensor payload upcharges, and government cost-plus arrangements with NOAA, NASA, US Navy, and EUMETSAT. There is no published consumption-priced API. This FinOps document maps Saildrone's *negotiated* billing surface onto FOCUS-style fields so downstream FinOps tooling can model Saildrone spend alongside cloud and SaaS spend, even though invoices are contract-based, not API-metered.
Saildrone Finops is the FinOps profile for Saildrone on the APIs.io network.
Tagged areas include Maritime, Defense, Ocean Data, and USV.
Category:
MaritimeDefenseOcean DataUSV
Framework Alignment
FOCUS Columns
Sources
- https://www.saildrone.com/service-model/fully-managed
- https://www.saildrone.com/about
- https://www.saildrone.com/data-delivery/api
Work with this as data
Every finops artifact here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.