name: Apigee API FinOps
specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
alignedWith:
  framework: FinOps Foundation Framework
  frameworkUrl: https://www.finops.org/framework/
  dataSpec: FOCUS
  dataSpecVersion: '1.3'
  dataSpecUrl: https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
provider: Apigee
providerId: apigee
publisherName: Google LLC
serviceCategory: API Management / Gateways
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-05'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - FinOps
  - FOCUS
  - API Management
  - Google Cloud
  - Gateways
description: 'FOCUS-aligned FinOps view for Apigee on Google Cloud: Apigee bills as a Google Cloud SKU,
  with two distinct pricing shapes — annual subscription (Standard / Enterprise / Enterprise Plus) bought
  through Google Cloud sales, and Pay-as-you-go metering on environment-hours and API call volume. Costs
  appear on the Google Cloud invoice alongside compute and networking, so cost allocation should align
  with GCP billing labels and folder/project tags.'
sources:
  - https://cloud.google.com/apigee/pricing
  - https://docs.cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/reference/limits
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Pay-As-You-Go + Committed Use
  billingFrequency: Monthly
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
    - Usage
    - Purchase
    - Tax
    - Adjustment
    - Credit
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Apigee
  ServiceCategory: API Management / Gateways
  ProviderName: Google
  PublisherName: Google LLC
  InvoiceIssuerName: Google LLC
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Usage
meters:
  - name: environment_hour
    description: Hours an Apigee runtime environment (instance) is provisioned and billable in PAYG mode.
    unit: instance-hour
    aggregation: sum
    dimensions:
      - region
      - environment_type
      - project_id
  - name: api_calls
    description: Count of proxied API calls billed under PAYG; also tracked for tier overage on subscriptions.
    unit: request
    aggregation: sum
    dimensions:
      - environment
      - api_product
      - region
  - name: subscription_year
    description: Annual subscription line for Standard / Enterprise / Enterprise Plus.
    unit: year
    aggregation: sum
    dimensions:
      - edition
      - region
  - name: networking_egress
    description: Cross-region and internet egress generated by Apigee runtime environments, billed under
      Google Cloud networking SKUs.
    unit: GB
    aggregation: sum
    dimensions:
      - source_region
      - destination_region
  - name: advanced_api_security
    description: Add-on Advanced API Security usage (anomaly detection, abuse detection) billed separately
      where enabled.
    unit: request
    aggregation: sum
    dimensions:
      - environment
  - name: monetization_transactions
    description: Count of monetized transactions processed through Apigee Monetization (Enterprise Plus).
    unit: transaction
    aggregation: sum
    dimensions:
      - api_product
      - developer
principles:
  - name: Visibility
    description: Use Google Cloud Billing export to BigQuery, Cloud Billing Reports, and Apigee Analytics
      to attribute spend to environments, API products, and consuming developer apps.
  - name: Allocation
    description: Apply GCP folder/project labels and Apigee API product / app metadata; chargeback by
      consuming app or developer using monetization or analytics extracts.
  - name: Optimization
    description: Right-size environment count to actual proxy traffic; consolidate non-prod environments;
      use SpikeArrest to protect targets and prevent runaway spend; choose committed-use Standard/Enterprise
      tier when steady-state PAYG exceeds threshold; cap message-payload buffer-size to avoid 30 MB ceiling
      retries.
  - name: Accountability
    description: Platform/API team owns the Apigee subscription; product teams accountable for per-API-product
      call volume via showback driven by Apigee Analytics counters.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com