specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: Cherre
providerId: cherre
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Real Estate
- Property Intelligence
- Data Integration
- GraphQL
- FinOps
- Cost Management
- FOCUS
description: >-
  FinOps view of Cherre spend. Cherre is an enterprise, sales-led data-licensing
  platform: customers pay for platform access plus the specific connected
  datasets they license (property, tax assessor, recorder/deeds, mortgages/liens,
  owners, parcel boundaries, demographics, and connected marketplace data) and
  consume them through a single GraphQL API, optionally egressing to external
  warehouses. Cost is contract-driven rather than transparently metered, so the
  meters below are modeled, not reconciled.
notes: >-
  Cherre does not publish public per-unit rates; spend is governed by the
  licensing contract. Treat meters as a tracking model and reconcile against the
  Cherre agreement and any usage reporting available in the Developer Portal.
sources:
- https://cherre.com/products/platform/
- https://cherre.com/marketplace-connections/
- https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/v1-3/
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/
publisherName: Cherre
serviceCategory: Analytics and Data
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Commitment-Based
  billingFrequency: Annual
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
  - Purchase
  - Usage
  - Adjustment
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Cherre Platform
  ServiceCategory: Analytics and Data
  ProviderName: Cherre
  PublisherName: Cherre
  InvoiceIssuerName: Cherre
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Purchase
  PricingCategory: Commitment-Based
meters:
- name: platform_license
  description: Annual platform / GraphQL API access license.
  unit: contract
  aggregation: max
  dimensions:
  - account
  - product
- name: dataset_licenses
  description: Connected datasets licensed (property, tax assessor, recorder, owner, parcel, connections).
  unit: datasets
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - dataset
- name: api_queries
  description: GraphQL queries executed against the connected data.
  unit: queries
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - dataset
- name: records_egressed
  description: Records exported to external warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, AWS, Azure).
  unit: records
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - destination
- name: seats
  description: Licensed user seats with platform / API access.
  unit: seats
  aggregation: max
  dimensions:
  - account
principles:
- name: Visibility
  description: Track which datasets are licensed and which teams query them; map to the contract line items.
- name: Allocation
  description: Tag API tokens and egress destinations per workload/team and map to internal cost centers.
- name: Optimization
  description: License only the datasets and geographies in active use; prefer warehouse egress for bulk over deep GraphQL pulls; consolidate duplicate vendor feeds via Connections.
- name: Accountability
  description: Assign dataset owners; review query and egress volume against the contract annually before renewal.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com