Submittable · FinOps Profile

Submittable Finops

FinOps view of Submittable spend. Submittable is sold as a quote-based SaaS subscription (Grant and Application Management and/or Corporate Social Responsibility products, plus Enterprise), not as usage-metered API billing. The dominant cost is the annual platform subscription negotiated with Sales, typically scaling with the number of users/seats and the products bundled, with implementation/onboarding as a one-time charge for larger deployments. The API itself carries no separate per-call fee; its consumption is bounded by rate limits (10 transactions/second, 10,000/hour) rather than a metered invoice line. For grantmaking customers, disbursed award/grant funds flow through the platform but are program spend rather than Submittable software cost.

Submittable Finops is the FinOps profile for Submittable 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 Submission Management, Grants Management, Applications, FinOps, and Cost Management.

Category: Business Applications Pricing: Subscription-Based Billing: Annual FOCUS v1.3
Submission ManagementGrants ManagementApplicationsFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

PurchaseAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Purchase
InvoiceIssuerName
Submittable
PricingCategory
Subscription-Based
ProviderName
Submittable
PublisherName
Submittable
ServiceCategory
Business Applications
ServiceName
Submittable

Meters

subscription
Unit: contract
Annual platform subscription, quote-based and typically scaled by seats and bundled products.
seats
Unit: users
Number of users/team members licensed on the account.
implementation
Unit: contract
One-time implementation/onboarding charge for larger deployments.
api_transactions
Unit: transactions
API transactions consumed; not separately billed but bounded by rate limits (10/sec, 10,000/hour).

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