specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
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/
provider: drupal
providerId: drupal
publisherName: drupal
serviceCategory: API
created: '2026-05-04'
method: searched
modified: '2026-09-17'
tags:
- FinOps
- Cost Management
- FOCUS
description: FinOps framing for Drupal. The chargeable unit on a Drupal project is hosting and labour, neither of
  which the Drupal project sells — there is no vendor invoice to allocate. Cost allocation is meaningful only against
  the operator’s own infrastructure.
principles:
- name: Visibility
  description: Make API consumption costs visible to engineering, product, and finance teams in near real-time.
- name: Allocation
  description: Tag every chargeable API call with the consuming team, environment, application, and feature so cost
    can be allocated.
- name: Optimization
  description: Continuously evaluate request patterns, caching, batching, and tier selection to reduce cost per
    useful unit of work.
- name: Accountability
  description: Establish budget owners and chargeback or showback flows for each consuming team.
domains:
- name: Understand Usage and Cost
  capabilities:
  - Data Ingestion
  - Allocation
  - Reporting and Analytics
  - Anomaly Management
- name: Quantify Business Value
  capabilities:
  - Planning and Estimating
  - Forecasting
  - Budgeting
  - Benchmarking
  - Unit Economics
- name: Optimize Usage and Cost
  capabilities:
  - Architecting for Cloud
  - Rate Optimization
  - Workload Optimization
  - Cloud Sustainability
  - Licensing and SaaS
- name: Manage the FinOps Practice
  capabilities:
  - FinOps Practice Operations
  - FinOps Education and Enablement
  - Invoicing and Chargeback
  - Onboarding Workloads
  - Intersecting Disciplines
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Free
  billingFrequency: null
  billingCurrency: null
  chargeCategories: []
  chargeFrequency: null
  note: 'Corrected 2026-09-17. This block previously read "Usage-Based / Monthly / USD", which was a 2026-05-04
    bulk-sweep scaffold value with no basis — and it was load-bearing: derive-access-model.py falls back to finops
    billingModel.pricingCategory when plans[] is empty, so the scaffold was labelling GPL-licensed software as "Paid".
    Drupal charges nothing for the software or for any API surface in this record.'
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: drupal
  ServiceCategory: Developer Tools / API
  ProviderName: drupal
  PublisherName: drupal
  InvoiceIssuerName: drupal
  PricingCategory: Usage-Based
  PricingUnit: request
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Usage
meters:
- name: api_requests
  description: Count of billable API requests
  unit: request
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - api
  - endpoint
  - tier
  - region
  - consumer
- name: data_egress
  description: Bytes returned over the network in API responses
  unit: GB
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - api
  - region
  - consumer
- name: compute_seconds
  description: Server-side compute consumed by the request, where applicable
  unit: second
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - api
  - endpoint
  - tier
apis:
- name: Drupal REST API
  baseURL: https://example.com
  tags:
  - CMS
  - Content Management
  - REST
  - Web Services
  serviceName: Drupal REST API
  serviceCategory: API
- name: Drupal JSON:API
  baseURL: https://example.com/jsonapi
  tags:
  - CMS
  - Content Management
  - Headless
  - JSON:API
  - REST
  serviceName: Drupal JSON:API
  serviceCategory: API
- name: Drupal GraphQL API
  baseURL: https://example.com/graphql
  tags:
  - CMS
  - Content Management
  - GraphQL
  - Headless
  - Query Language
  serviceName: Drupal GraphQL API
  serviceCategory: API
unitEconomics:
- name: Cost per 1K Requests
  metric: billed_cost / (api_requests / 1000)
  target: TBD
- name: Cost per Active Consumer
  metric: billed_cost / active_consumers
  target: TBD
maintainers: []
generated: '2026-09-17'
source: https://www.drupal.org/about/licensing , https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal