# Harness Cloud Cost Management

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/harness-cloud-cost/  
**Website:** https://www.harness.io/products/cloud-cost  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Harness Cloud Cost Management (CCM) provides intelligent cloud cost optimization with AI-driven recommendations, customizable cost perspectives, budgets, anomaly detection, and chargeback / showback through cost categories. CCM ingests cost data from AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes clusters and exposes a REST API on the Harness platform for FinOps automation.

## Kin Score — 38.2 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 38.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 54.5 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| 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 (6)

- **Harness Cloud Cost Management Anomalies API** — Detect and review unusual cost patterns and anomalies.
- **Harness Cloud Cost Management Budgets API** — Define and monitor cloud spending budgets with alerts.
- **Harness Cloud Cost Management Connectors API** — Manage cloud provider and Kubernetes connectors for cost ingestion.
- **Harness Cloud Cost Management Cost Categories API** — Allocate and chargeback cloud costs by business units.
- **Harness Cloud Cost Management Perspectives API** — Group and analyze cloud cost data through customizable views.
- **Harness Cloud Cost Management Recommendations API** — AI-driven recommendations for cloud cost optimization.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Harness Cloud Cost Agentic Access** — 17 operations · 7 acting

## Security (4)

- **Harness Cloud Cost Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Harness Cloud Cost Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Harness Cloud Cost Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published
- **Harness Cloud Cost Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, GDPR, CSA STAR

## Plans (1)

- **Harness Cloud Cost Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Anomaly Detection, Budgets, Cloud Cost Management, FinOps, Kubernetes, Recommendations

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