# microsoft-azure-cost-management

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-cost-management/  
**Website:** https://portal.azure.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Azure Cost Management provides programmatic access to cost analysis, budgets, exports, and recommendations across cloud spending. This collection documents the REST APIs that support multidimensional usage queries, budget alerts, scheduled cost exports, and FinOps optimization recommendations. - url: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-cost-management-2019-year-in-review/ type: Blog

## Kin Score — 34.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 50.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## 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 (2)

- **microsoft-azure-cost-management Exports API** — Exports operations
- **microsoft-azure-cost-management Operations API** — Operations operations

## Agentic access (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Cost Management Agentic Access** — 7 operations · 3 acting

## Security (2)

- **Microsoft Azure Cost Management Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Microsoft Azure Cost Management Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Microsoft Azure Cost Management Plans Pricing**

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