name: Currents API FinOps
description: Financial operations guidance for managing Currents News API costs
url: https://currentsapi.services/en/product/price
cost_model:
  type: subscription
  unit: requests
  free_tier: true
  free_tier_details:
    requests_per_day: 1000
    cost: 0
cost_optimization:
  - Use the free Developer tier for development and testing
  - Choose annual billing for 20% savings over monthly plans
  - Cache API responses to reduce redundant requests
  - Use specific search filters (language, category, country) to retrieve only needed articles
  - Monitor X-RateLimit-Remaining header to avoid exceeding quota
  - Implement request batching using the max results parameter
  - Use /latest-news for general feeds and /search only when filtering is required
pricing_tiers:
  - name: Developer
    monthly_cost: 0
    annual_cost: 0
    cost_per_request: 0
    requests_per_month: 30000
  - name: Builder
    monthly_cost: 69
    annual_cost: 690
    cost_per_request: 0.00092
    requests_per_month: 75000
  - name: Professional
    monthly_cost: 150
    annual_cost: 1500
    cost_per_request: 0.0005
    requests_per_month: 300000
  - name: Enterprise
    monthly_cost: 300
    annual_cost: 3000
    cost_per_request: 0.0005
    requests_per_month: 600000
value_metrics:
  - metric: cost_per_request
    value: 0.0005
    unit: USD
    description: Advertised as lowest in market at $0.0005 per request (2000 requests per dollar)
  - metric: sla_uptime
    value: 99.97
    unit: percent
    description: SLA uptime guarantee on paid plans
budget_alerts:
  - Monitor monthly request consumption against plan limits
  - Set up alerts when approaching 80% of monthly quota
  - Evaluate upgrading plan if consistently hitting limits
  - Downgrade to free tier available upon cancellation