Spire Maritime · FinOps Profile

Spire Maritime Finops

FinOps view of Spire Maritime spend. Spire Maritime is sold via enterprise / contact-sales agreements, not public usage-based rates, so cost is driven by the licensed data products (vessels, messages, port events, predicted ETA, historical extracts), the coverage (satellite + terrestrial AIS), the delivery channels used (GraphQL API and/or the raw TCP AIS stream), and the contracted request/throughput scope - typically a committed annual subscription rather than metered per-call billing. No public per-unit prices are asserted here.

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

It defines 4 billable meters, billed in USD, on a annual cycle, and pricing category subscription-based.

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

Tagged areas include Vessel Tracking, AIS, Maritime, Satellite AIS, and FinOps.

Category: Data and Analytics Pricing: Subscription-Based Billing: Annual FOCUS v1.3
Vessel TrackingAISMaritimeSatellite AISFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

PurchaseUsageAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Purchase
InvoiceIssuerName
Spire Global
PricingCategory
Subscription-Based
ProviderName
Spire Global
PublisherName
Spire Global
ServiceCategory
Data and Analytics
ServiceName
Spire Maritime

Meters

data_subscription
Unit: contract
Committed annual license to Spire Maritime data products (contract-defined scope). No public per-unit rate.
graphql_requests
Unit: requests
Maritime 2.0 GraphQL requests (quota ~60 req/min per token); usage governed by agreement, not public per-call price.
stream_throughput
Unit: messages
Real-time AIS messages delivered over the raw TCP stream; scoped by licensed coverage/throughput.
historical_extracts
Unit: datasets
Custom historical AIS / events data extracts delivered as datasets.

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