sec-edgar · FinOps Profile

Sec Edgar Finops

SEC EDGAR is free U.S. Government public data — there is no provider charge. FinOps focus is therefore on internal cost-to-serve (egress, compute to parse filings, downstream storage) rather than vendor spend. No FOCUS BillingCost line items exist for SEC; meters track operational consumption for showback inside the consuming organization.

Sec Edgar Finops is the FinOps profile for sec-edgar on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 3 billable meters, billed in USD, on a n/a cycle, and pricing category free / public data.

The profile maps 6 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include SEC, Filings, Regulatory, Open Data, and FinOps.

Category: Open Government Data Pricing: Free / Public Data Billing: N/A FOCUS v1.3
SECFilingsRegulatoryOpen DataFinOpsFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

Usage

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
InvoiceIssuerName
N/A
ProviderName
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
PublisherName
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
ServiceCategory
Open Government Data
ServiceName
SEC EDGAR

Meters

edgar_requests
Unit: request
Count of HTTP requests sent to SEC EDGAR endpoints (internal observability meter; not billed)
edgar_egress_bytes
Unit: GB
Bytes downloaded from SEC EDGAR (filings, XBRL, search results)
filings_parsed
Unit: document
Filings or XBRL documents parsed downstream (drives compute / storage cost-to-serve)

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