finops:
  - name: conda-forge Cost Model
    description: >
      conda-forge is a community-driven, entirely free and open-source project.
      All package distribution, metadata APIs, and channel index files are
      provided at no cost to end users. The project's infrastructure costs
      are covered through a combination of Anaconda's in-kind hosting
      contributions and NumFOCUS sponsored fiscal support. There are no
      metered API costs, no per-download fees, and no bandwidth charges for
      accessing the conda-forge channel through conda.anaconda.org.

      For organizations with compliance requirements around Anaconda's Terms
      of Service, Anaconda offers commercial subscription plans (Starter,
      Business, Enterprise) that cover usage of the Anaconda distribution
      and Anaconda.org hosting for proprietary channels. These commercial
      plans do not apply to the conda-forge community channel itself, which
      remains free for all users.
    url: https://www.anaconda.com/pricing
    model: free
    notes: >
      Anaconda changed its Terms of Service in 2023 to require commercial
      licenses for organizations with more than 200 employees using the
      Anaconda defaults channel. The conda-forge channel and its packages
      are not subject to this restriction and remain freely available under
      their respective open-source licenses. Organizations can safely use
      conda-forge packages without a commercial Anaconda subscription by
      pointing conda at the conda-forge channel instead of the defaults
      channel.
  - name: Self-Hosting Costs
    description: >
      Organizations that mirror the conda-forge channel internally (e.g.,
      using conda-mirror or Quetz) incur their own storage and bandwidth
      costs. The full conda-forge channel is several terabytes; mirroring
      a subset filtered by platform and package selection is common.
      Quetz is an open-source conda channel server that can be self-hosted
      to create private or mirrored channels.
    url: https://github.com/mamba-org/quetz
    model: self-hosted
    notes: >
      No per-package or per-download charges from conda-forge itself;
      only infrastructure costs for self-hosted mirrors apply.