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FOCUS (FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification)

Information Model Finops openly published

An open specification for generating consistent technology billing datasets to reduce complexity for FinOps Practitioners and support data-driven decision-making. Supported by the FinOps Foundation....

FinOps Foundation (Linux Foundation), from their own og:description

What I make of it

A common billing-record schema across AWS, Azure, GCP. Directly relevant to the API monetization thread.

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Model Details
Steward FinOps Foundation (Linux Foundation)
Layer Information Model
Domain Finops
Status live
Access Openly published
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How I know this

Compiled for the API Evangelist data model catalog, then confirmed against the steward's own site.

Confirmed 2026-08-11

Evidence: name evidence 4/4. Found something wrong? Tell me — corrections are cheap and I would rather be right.

Modernity Profile
64.7 Modernizing
Access Open
Assessed 68.0% of the rubric

A separate measure from the Kin Score, which rates API providers. This rates how current a standard is in how it is expressed, published and paid for — not how good it is. EDIFACT and X12 score low here and move an enormous share of world trade.

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