specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data
providerId: fiscaldata
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Government Data
- Treasury
- Open Data
- Public Domain
- FinOps
- Cost Management
- FOCUS
description: >-
  FinOps view of Treasury Fiscal Data usage. There is no vendor cost: the API is
  a free public U.S. Government service with no fees, no API key, and no billing.
  The only costs a consumer incurs are their own - the compute, storage, and
  egress for calling the API, ingesting the responses, and retaining or
  reprocessing the data downstream. FinOps discipline here is about controlling
  your own data-transfer and processing footprint (avoid re-pulling full
  datasets, filter server-side, cache results) rather than managing a provider
  invoice.
notes: >-
  There is no provider invoice, currency, or billing frequency for Fiscal Data
  itself; the FOCUS mapping below describes the zero-cost government service so
  it can sit alongside paid services in a unified cost view. Optimize your own
  infrastructure: cache responses to the report's update cadence and pull only
  changed records with record_date filters.
sources:
- https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/api-documentation/
- https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/
- 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: U.S. Bureau of the Fiscal Service
serviceCategory: Government Open Data
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Free
  billingFrequency: None
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
  - Usage
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Treasury Fiscal Data API
  ServiceCategory: Government Open Data
  ProviderName: U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data
  PublisherName: U.S. Bureau of the Fiscal Service
  InvoiceIssuerName: U.S. Bureau of the Fiscal Service
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Usage
  PricingCategory: Free
meters:
- name: api_requests
  description: Requests made to Fiscal Data endpoints. No provider charge; drives only your own egress and compute.
  unit: requests
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - dataset
  - consumer
- name: data_transfer
  description: Response payload transferred and ingested by the consumer. No provider charge; a consumer-side infrastructure cost.
  unit: bytes
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - dataset
  - consumer
principles:
- name: Visibility
  description: Track which datasets your systems pull and how much data you transfer, even though the provider charges nothing, so downstream infrastructure cost stays visible.
- name: Allocation
  description: Attribute Fiscal Data ingestion to the internal workloads and teams that consume it.
- name: Optimization
  description: Use fields, filter, and record_date to pull only new or needed records; cache to the report's update cadence to avoid redundant transfer and processing.
- name: Accountability
  description: Assign owners for pipelines that ingest Fiscal Data and review their consumer-side transfer and storage footprint periodically.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com