specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: Climate Engine
providerId: climate-engine
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Climate
- Geospatial
- Remote Sensing
- Satellite
- Earth Observation
- FinOps
- Cost Management
- FOCUS
description: >-
  FinOps view of Climate Engine commercial API spend. Climate Engine sells API
  access through partner / sales-led agreements governed by per-account request
  quotas rather than publicly itemized per-call rates. Cost is therefore driven
  by the negotiated agreement and the volume of processing requests against the
  account quota. Because no public rate card is published, the meters below are
  modeled on the request-quota structure and are not reconciled to dollar rates.
notes: >-
  Itemized commercial rates are not published; verify the negotiated agreement
  and quota allocation with the Climate Engine team during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://www.climateengine.com
- https://support.climateengine.org/article/144-api-quota-policy
- 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: Climate Engine
serviceCategory: Analytics
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Commitment-Based
  billingFrequency: Annual
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
  - Usage
  - Purchase
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Climate Engine API
  ServiceCategory: Analytics
  ProviderName: Climate Engine
  PublisherName: Climate Engine
  InvoiceIssuerName: Climate Engine
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Usage
  PricingCategory: Commitment-Based
meters:
- name: api_requests
  description: Processing requests against the per-account request quota.
  unit: requests
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - api
- name: raster_export_tasks
  description: Asynchronous raster export tasks queued and executed on Earth Engine.
  unit: tasks
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
- name: quota_allocation
  description: Provisioned request quota assigned to the API key under the agreement.
  unit: requests
  aggregation: max
  dimensions:
  - account
principles:
- name: Visibility
  description: Poll GET /home/user/quotas to track request usage and remaining allowance per key.
- name: Allocation
  description: Issue separate API keys per workload/team and map them to internal cost centers.
- name: Optimization
  description: Prefer feature-collection and zonal-statistics endpoints over per-pixel exports where possible; cache dataset metadata; batch regions to reduce request count.
- name: Accountability
  description: Assign owners per key; review quota burn against the partner agreement on a regular cadence.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com