FinOps Foundation

The FinOps Foundation aims to help organizations optimize their cloud spending and improve cloud financial management practices. By providing education, tools, and resources, the foundation equips teams with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively manage cloud costs.

FinOps Foundation publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Contract Commitments API, Cost and Usage API, and Schema Metadata API. Tagged areas include Budgets, Costs, and FinOps.

The FinOps Foundation catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

FinOps Foundation’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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32.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 82/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract

Budgets Costs FinOps

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

Contract CommitmentsCost and Usage

GET /cost-and-usage GET /contract-commitments

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 32.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 17

Access Clarity 1.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented) Ask about this →

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 35.7 — up to +12.9 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Governance scores 9.8 — up to +10.8 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

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

FinOps Foundation Contract Commitments API

Endpoints for querying contract commitment data, a supplemental dataset introduced in FOCUS v1.3 that isolates contract terms from cost and usage rows.

FinOps Foundation Cost and Usage API

Endpoints for querying FOCUS-compliant cost and usage data, the primary dataset defined by the FOCUS specification.

FinOps Foundation Schema Metadata API

Endpoints for retrieving metadata about the FOCUS dataset schema, including column definitions, data types, and version information.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

FinOps Foundation FOCUS Cost and Usage Contract Commitments API

OPEN COLLECTION

FinOps Foundation FOCUS Contract Commitments Cost and Usage API

OPEN COLLECTION

FinOps Foundation FOCUS Cost and Usage API

OPEN COLLECTION

FinOps Foundation FOCUS Cost and Usage Contract Commitments Schema Metadata API

OPEN COLLECTION

FinOps Foundation API pricing

Not yet checked against FinOps Foundation's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against FinOps Foundation's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

FinOps Foundation Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps Foundation Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

FinOps Foundation Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Finops Foundation Context

0 classes · 54 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

FinOps Foundation — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 4 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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

FOCUS Contract Commitment Record

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

FOCUS Cost and Usage Record

48 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

FinOps Foundation Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

FinOps Foundation Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

FinOps Foundation Agentic Access

5 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

IssueTracker

Releases

Community

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: finops-foundation
name: FinOps Foundation
description: The FinOps Foundation aims to help organizations optimize their cloud spending and improve cloud financial management
  practices. By providing education, tools, and resources, the foundation equips teams with the skills and knowledge needed
  to effectively manage cloud costs.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - finops-open-cost-and-usage-spec/focus_spec
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/finops-foundation.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-01-02'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
tags:
- Budgets
- Costs
- FinOps
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/finops-foundation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: finops-foundation:finops-foundation-contract-commitments-api
  name: FinOps Foundation Contract Commitments API
  description: Endpoints for querying contract commitment data, a supplemental dataset introduced in FOCUS v1.3 that isolates
    contract terms from cost and usage rows.
  humanURL: https://focus.finops.org/
  tags:
  - Contract Commitments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/finops-foundation-contract-commitments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/FinOps-Open-Cost-and-Usage-Spec/FOCUS_Spec
  - type: Reference
    url: https://focus.finops.org/focus-columns/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/finops-foundation-cost-and-usage-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/finops-foundation-contract-commitment-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/finops-foundation-context.jsonld
- aid: finops-foundation:finops-foundation-cost-and-usage-api
  name: FinOps Foundation Cost and Usage API
  description: Endpoints for querying FOCUS-compliant cost and usage data, the primary dataset defined by the FOCUS specification.
  humanURL: https://focus.finops.org/
  tags:
  - Cost and Usage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/finops-foundation-cost-and-usage-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/FinOps-Open-Cost-and-Usage-Spec/FOCUS_Spec
  - type: Reference
    url: https://focus.finops.org/focus-columns/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/finops-foundation-cost-and-usage-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/finops-foundation-contract-commitment-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/finops-foundation-context.jsonld
- aid: finops-foundation:finops-foundation-schema-metadata-api
  name: FinOps Foundation Schema Metadata API
  description: Endpoints for retrieving metadata about the FOCUS dataset schema, including column definitions, data types,
    and version information.
  humanURL: https://focus.finops.org/
  tags:
  - Schema Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/finops-foundation-schema-metadata-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/FinOps-Open-Cost-and-Usage-Spec/FOCUS_Spec
  - type: Reference
    url: https://focus.finops.org/focus-columns/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/finops-foundation-cost-and-usage-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/finops-foundation-contract-commitment-record-schema.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/finops-foundation-context.jsonld
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/finops-foundation-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/finops-foundation-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/finops-foundation-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/finops-foundation-capability-edges.yml
  name: FinOps Foundation Business Capability Map
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/FinOps-Open-Cost-and-Usage-Spec/FOCUS_Spec/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/FinOps-Open-Cost-and-Usage-Spec/FOCUS_Spec/releases
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/FinOps-Open-Cost-and-Usage-Spec/FOCUS_Spec/blob/working_draft/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/finops-foundation-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/finops-foundation-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/finops-foundation-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/finops-foundation
- type: Website
  url: https://www.finops.org/
- type: Community
  url: https://www.finops.org/community/
- url: https://www.finops.org/feed/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

FinOps Foundation API — frequently asked questions

Does FinOps Foundation have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from FinOps Foundation, including FinOps Foundation Contract Commitments API, FinOps Foundation Cost and Usage API and FinOps Foundation Schema Metadata API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the FinOps Foundation API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for FinOps Foundation, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the FinOps Foundation API?

FinOps Foundation uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as FinOps Foundation Authentication.

How much does the FinOps Foundation API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for FinOps Foundation, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the FinOps Foundation API ready for AI agents?

FinOps Foundation has a Kin Score of 32.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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