aid: bics-network
name: BICS
finops:
  model: Wholesale carrier / enterprise contract billing
  summary: >-
    Cost management for BICS APIs is contract-based rather than public
    pay-as-you-go. There is no published metered price card or usage-based
    calculator on the developer portal. FinOps levers available to customers are
    the negotiated wholesale rates in their agreement, the MyNumbers price-list
    endpoints for retrieving per-product and per-country pricing, and CDR data
    (MyNumbers CDR API) for reconciling call and usage charges.
  costControls:
  - Negotiated wholesale / enterprise rates per commercial agreement.
  - MyNumbers price-list endpoints for programmatic price discovery.
  - MyNumbers CDR API for downloading Call Detail Records to reconcile usage.
  - Sandbox environment (sandbox.api.bics.com) to develop and test without production charges.
  publicPricing: false
  sources:
  - url: https://developer.bics.com/portal/apis
    type: Documentation
    note: Price-list and CDR endpoints exist; no public pay-as-you-go pricing.
  - url: https://www.bics.com/developers-hub/
    type: Documentation
    note: Positioned as enterprise/carrier products, contact-sales model.