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 9 more developer resources.

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36.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 APIs

Budgets Costs FinOps

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 36.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 16.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.7 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 13

Contract Governance 1.2 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 26/100 · 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

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.

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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 5

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

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

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.

FinOps Foundation API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

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 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 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Releases

Releases

Community

Community

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
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - repository-unlicensed
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  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: 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

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