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 APIs 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 5 more developer resources.

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46.3/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 38/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

3 APIs

BudgetsCostsFinOps

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 46.3/100 · developing

Contract Quality 18.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 38/100 · agent ready

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 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

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APIs 3

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

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.

JSON Schema 2

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

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 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Community

Community

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

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
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: Consumer
tags:
- Budgets
- Costs
- FinOps
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/finops-foundation/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
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: 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

Kin Score

APIs 3

FinOps Foundation Contract Commitments API

FinOps Foundation Cost and Usage API

FinOps Foundation Schema Metadata API

Open Collections 1

FinOps Foundation FOCUS Cost and Usage API

Pricing Plans 1

Finops Foundation Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Finops Foundation Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Finops Foundation Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Finops Foundation Context

Spectral Rules 1

FinOps Foundation API Rules

JSON Schema 2

FOCUS Contract Commitment Record

FOCUS Cost and Usage Record

Security Posture 2

Finops Foundation Authentication

Finops Foundation Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Finops Foundation Agentic Access

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

Access & Security 2

Operate 1

Company 3

Source (apis.yml)