Timescale · FinOps Profile
Timescale Finops
FOCUS-aligned FinOps profile for Tiger Cloud (the managed TimescaleDB service). Compute is metered hourly per service-hour at a tier-specific rate that varies by region. Storage is metered as average GB-hour, priced uniformly across regions. Billed monthly in arrears in USD.
Timescale Finops is the FinOps profile for Timescale on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.
It defines 5 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly (in arrears) cycle, and pricing category usage.
The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.
Tagged areas include Database, Time-Series, PostgreSQL, Open Source, and Cloud.
Category: Database (Time-Series)
Pricing: Usage
Billing: Monthly (in arrears)
FOCUS v1.3
Method:
generated, dated 2026-05-08.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 from the provider's published pricing, and not verified by the provider. Treat the meters and categories as our reading of their pages, not their statement.
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DatabaseTime-SeriesPostgreSQLOpen SourceCloudFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS
Framework Alignment
Charge Categories
UsagePurchaseAdjustment
FOCUS Columns
BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Tiger Data
PricingUnit
service-hour
ProviderName
Tiger Data
PublisherName
Tiger Data
ServiceCategory
Database
ServiceName
Tiger Cloud
Meters
compute_service_hours
Hourly metering of running database services at tier-specific rates.
storage_gb_hour_high_perf
Average GB-hours of high-performance storage attached to services.
storage_gb_hour_tiered
Average GB-hours of tiered/object storage (cold).
data_transfer
Egress bandwidth out of Tiger Cloud services where applicable.
replicas
Read-replica service-hours billed in addition to primary.
Sources
- https://www.tigerdata.com/pricing
- https://www.tigerdata.com/docs/use-timescale/billing
- https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
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