specificationVersion: "1.0"
id: mailosaur-finops
name: Mailosaur FinOps Framework
description: >-
  FinOps cost visibility and optimization guidance for teams using Mailosaur
  for email and SMS testing. Covers cost allocation, usage optimization,
  and rightsizing across Mailosaur's Personal, Core, and Enterprise plans.
url: https://mailosaur.com/pricing
framework: FinOps Framework 1.0
focusDomain: SaaS
vendor: Mailosaur

costModel:
  type: subscription
  billingOptions:
    - cycle: annual
      discount: "20% savings vs monthly billing"
    - cycle: monthly
      discount: none
  currency: USD
  pricingTiers:
    - tier: Personal
      monthlyPrice: 20.00
      billedAs: annual
      primaryCostDriver: inbound email volume (15,000/month cap)
    - tier: Core
      monthlyPrice: 50.00
      billedAs: annual
      primaryCostDriver: inbound email volume (75,000/month cap)
    - tier: Enterprise
      monthlyPrice: null
      billedAs: annual
      primaryCostDriver: negotiated contract

costAllocation:
  recommendations:
    - >-
        Tag Mailosaur costs to engineering teams or QA cost centers via
        finance tooling since Mailosaur does not natively expose cost
        allocation tags.
    - >-
        Use the account usage API endpoint (GET /api/usage/limits and
        GET /api/usage/transactions) to attribute email volume by server
        (inbox) to specific teams or projects.
    - >-
        Map each Mailosaur server (inbox) to a project or team in internal
        documentation to enable chargeback reporting.

optimization:
  rightsizing:
    - >-
        Monitor monthly inbound email counts via GET /api/usage/transactions
        (31-day history) to determine whether the current plan tier is
        appropriate.
    - >-
        Downgrade from Core to Personal if consistent monthly volume stays
        below 15,000 emails and team size is 3 or fewer users.
    - >-
        Upgrade from Personal to Core before hitting daily caps to avoid
        test failures in CI/CD pipelines.
  wasteReduction:
    - >-
        Delete unused servers (inboxes) to keep the account within plan
        inbox limits and reduce administrative overhead.
    - >-
        Remove inactive users to stay within per-plan seat limits and
        avoid unnecessary Enterprise-tier upgrade triggers.
    - >-
        Use mail rules to auto-delete or filter low-value inbound messages,
        preserving monthly email volume for meaningful tests.
  annualVsMonthly:
    - >-
        Commit to annual billing for a 20% reduction in subscription cost
        once the team's testing volume and plan requirements are stable.
    - >-
        Use the 14-day free trial to validate plan fit before committing to
        an annual contract.

visibility:
  usageEndpoints:
    - name: Account Limits
      method: GET
      path: /api/usage/limits
      description: Returns current plan limits (emails, servers, users).
    - name: Transaction History
      method: GET
      path: /api/usage/transactions
      description: Returns 31 days of inbound email transaction counts.
  monitoring:
    - >-
        Integrate the usage/limits endpoint into internal dashboards to
        alert when daily or monthly email caps are approaching thresholds
        (e.g., 80% consumed).
    - >-
        Monitor Mailosaur's status page (https://status.mailosaur.com)
        to correlate service incidents with test failures and avoid
        attributing outages to code regressions.

addOns:
  - name: Email Previews
    description: >-
      Visual email rendering previews across clients and devices.
    price: 25.00
    priceCurrency: USD
    billingCycle: monthly
    applicablePlans:
      - Core
      - Enterprise
    finOpsNote: >-
      Enable email previews only for teams that actively validate rendering;
      disable for pure API/functional testing teams to reduce cost.