# FinOps Foundation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/finops-foundation/  
**Website:** https://www.finops.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 33.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 68.5 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 35.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (3)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Finops Foundation Agentic Access** — 5 operations · 1 acting

## Security (2)

- **Finops Foundation Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Finops Foundation Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Finops Foundation Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Budgets, Costs, FinOps

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/finops-foundation/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.