CloudZero

CloudZero is a cloud cost intelligence and FinOps platform that automates the collection, allocation, and analysis of infrastructure spend to uncover waste and improve unit economics. The CloudZero API V2 is REST-oriented, uses API key authentication, and exposes endpoints for querying billing costs and dimensions, managing insights and budgets, sending unit metric and allocation telemetry, and ingesting cost data from any source via the AnyCost framework.

CloudZero publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Allocation Telemetry API, AnyCost API, Billing API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Budgets, Cloud Cost Management, Cost Allocation, Cost Optimization, and FinOps.

The CloudZero catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

CloudZero’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, documentation, pricing, GitHub presence, privacy policy, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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59.8/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessSelf serve

12 APIs

BudgetsCloud Cost ManagementCost AllocationCost OptimizationFinOpsTelemetryUnit Economics

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 59.8/100 · strong

Contract Quality 19.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 13.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 12

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cloudzero Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 13

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Privacy

Privacy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cloudzero
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudzero/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: CloudZero
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
created: '2026-01-02'
modified: '2026-05-19'
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consumer
specificationVersion: '0.19'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cloudzero.png
kind: company
tags:
- Budgets
- Cloud Cost Management
- Cost Allocation
- Cost Optimization
- FinOps
- Telemetry
- Unit Economics
description: CloudZero is a cloud cost intelligence and FinOps platform that automates the collection, allocation, and analysis
  of infrastructure spend to uncover waste and improve unit economics. The CloudZero API V2 is REST-oriented, uses API key
  authentication, and exposes endpoints for querying billing costs and dimensions, managing insights and budgets, sending
  unit metric and allocation telemetry, and ingesting cost data from any source via the AnyCost framework.
apis:
- aid: cloudzero:billing
  name: CloudZero Billing API
  description: The Billing API exposes cost and dimension data for analysis. Endpoints under /v2/billing return cost rows
    over a date range with selectable dimensions (account, service, region, custom dimension) and metrics (real_cost, billed_cost).
    Pagination uses page and page_size query parameters.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/billing
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com/v2/billing
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - Billing
  - Cost Reporting
  - Dimensions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/billing
- aid: cloudzero:insights
  name: CloudZero Insights API
  description: The Insights API stores and surfaces actionable cost insights and recommendations. Endpoints under /v2/insights
    support listing, creating, updating, and deleting insight records, including assigned owners, severity, status, and estimated
    savings.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/insights
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com/v2/insights
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - Cost Optimization
  - Insights
  - Recommendations
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/insights
- aid: cloudzero:budgets
  name: CloudZero Budgets API
  description: The Budgets API manages cost-and-usage budgets, alerts, thresholds, and actuals tracking. Endpoints under /v2/budgets
    list, create, update, and delete budgets and surface current consumption against limits.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/budgets
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com/v2/budgets
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - Alerts
  - Budgets
  - FinOps
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/budgets
- aid: cloudzero:allocation-telemetry
  name: CloudZero Allocation Telemetry API
  description: Allocation Telemetry sends, edits, and deletes allocation telemetry data for splitting cloud cost across custom
    allocation dimensions. Endpoints under /v1/telemetry/allocation/{stream_name} support sum, replace, and delete operations
    against a named telemetry stream.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/allocation-telemetry
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com/v1/telemetry/allocation
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - Allocation
  - Cost Splitting
  - Telemetry
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/allocation-telemetry
- aid: cloudzero:unit-metric-telemetry
  name: CloudZero Unit Metric Telemetry API
  description: Unit Metric Telemetry ingests business metrics that drive unit-economics calculations (cost per customer, cost
    per transaction, cost per tenant). Endpoints under /v1/telemetry/{stream_name} support submitting records, deleting, and
    replacing values for named streams.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/unit-metric-telemetry
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com/v1/telemetry
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - Telemetry
  - Unit Economics
  - Unit Metrics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/unit-metric-telemetry
- aid: cloudzero:anycost
  name: CloudZero AnyCost API
  description: AnyCost ingests cost data from any source using the AnyCost Stream Adaptor and Common Bill Format (CBF). Endpoints
    under /v2/connections/billing/anycost/{connection_id}/billing_drops accept uploads of normalized billing drops alongside
    native AWS, Azure, and GCP integrations.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/anycost
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com/v2/connections/billing/anycost
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  tags:
  - AnyCost
  - Billing Drop
  - CBF
  - Common Bill Format
  - Ingestion
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/anycost
- aid: cloudzero:cloudzero-allocation-telemetry-api
  name: CloudZero Allocation Telemetry API
  description: Send, edit, and delete allocation telemetry data for splitting cloud cost data through custom allocation dimensions.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com
  tags:
  - Allocation Telemetry
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudzero-allocation-telemetry-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  - type: Authorization
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/authorization
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-cost.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-insight.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-budget.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-telemetry-record.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-billing-drop.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cloudzero-context.jsonld
  - type: Spectral
    url: rules/cloudzero-rules.yml
- aid: cloudzero:cloudzero-anycost-api
  name: CloudZero AnyCost API
  description: Ingest cost data from any source using the AnyCost Stream Adaptor and Common Bill Format (CBF).
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com
  tags:
  - AnyCost
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudzero-anycost-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  - type: Authorization
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/authorization
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-cost.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-insight.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-budget.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-telemetry-record.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-billing-drop.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cloudzero-context.jsonld
  - type: Spectral
    url: rules/cloudzero-rules.yml
- aid: cloudzero:cloudzero-billing-api
  name: CloudZero Billing API
  description: Retrieve cost and dimension data for billing analysis.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com
  tags:
  - Billing
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudzero-billing-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  - type: Authorization
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/authorization
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-cost.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-insight.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-budget.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-telemetry-record.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-billing-drop.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cloudzero-context.jsonld
  - type: Spectral
    url: rules/cloudzero-rules.yml
- aid: cloudzero:cloudzero-budgets-api
  name: CloudZero Budgets API
  description: Create, read, update, and delete budgets for cost tracking.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com
  tags:
  - Budgets
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudzero-budgets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  - type: Authorization
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/authorization
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-cost.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-insight.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-budget.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-telemetry-record.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-billing-drop.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cloudzero-context.jsonld
  - type: Spectral
    url: rules/cloudzero-rules.yml
- aid: cloudzero:cloudzero-insights-api
  name: CloudZero Insights API
  description: Create, read, update, and delete cost insights.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com
  tags:
  - Insights
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudzero-insights-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  - type: Authorization
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/authorization
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-cost.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-insight.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-budget.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-telemetry-record.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-billing-drop.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cloudzero-context.jsonld
  - type: Spectral
    url: rules/cloudzero-rules.yml
- aid: cloudzero:cloudzero-unit-metric-telemetry-api
  name: CloudZero Unit Metric Telemetry API
  description: Send, edit, and delete unit metric telemetry data related to your system operations.
  humanURL: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.cloudzero.com
  tags:
  - Unit Metric Telemetry
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudzero-unit-metric-telemetry-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/introduction
  - type: Authorization
    url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/reference/authorization
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-cost.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-insight.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-budget.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-telemetry-record.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloudzero-billing-drop.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/cloudzero-context.jsonld
  - type: Spectral
    url: rules/cloudzero-rules.yml
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/cloudzero/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cloudzero-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cloudzero-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cloudzero-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cloudzero-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudzero
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cloudzero.com/
- type: Portal
  url: https://app.cloudzero.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.cloudzero.com/pricing/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.cloudzero.com/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Cloudzero
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.cloudzero.com/terms-of-service/
- type: Privacy
  url: https://www.cloudzero.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.cloudzero.com/integrations/
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.cloudzero.com/llms.txt
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.cloudzero.com/feed
integrations:
- name: Amazon Web Services
- name: Kubernetes
- name: Google Cloud Platform
- name: Anthropic
- name: Microsoft Azure
- name: MongoDB
- name: Snowflake
- name: OpenAI
- name: Datadog
- name: Databricks
- name: New Relic
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

CloudZero

APIs 12

Postman Collections 6

Open Collections 1

Pricing Plans 1