specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: Ocean.io
providerId: ocean-io
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
# 2026-08-13: cost model corrected from the provider's own credit documentation at
# https://app.ocean.io/docs/getting-started/credits — Ocean.io meters API usage from a
# single credit pool with published per-endpoint rates, not a bundled seat contract.
method: derived
modified: '2026-08-13'
reconciled: true
tags:
- Sales Intelligence
- B2B
- Enrichment
- Lookalike
- ABM
- Prospecting
- FinOps
- Cost Management
- FOCUS
description: >-
  FOCUS-aligned FinOps profile for Ocean.io. The cost driver is a single shared credit pool that
  every API endpoint draws from, with per-endpoint rates Ocean.io publishes: 0.2 credits per search
  result, 0.1 per enrichment, 0.05 per lookup, 1 per email revealed and 10 per phone revealed.
  Optimize by routing known domains through Lookup rather than Search (4x cheaper per result), by
  sizing searches with a size:1 probe before spending, by trimming responses with the fields
  parameter, and by treating phone reveal as the outlier line item it is at 10x the cost of an email.
  Monetary tier pricing is not published in a readable form — the marketing pricing page answers
  non-browser clients with a Cloudflare challenge — so unit economics are tracked in credits.
notes: Credit-pool metering with published per-unit rates; monetary tiers not publicly readable.
sources:
- https://app.ocean.io/docs/getting-started/credits
- https://app.ocean.io/docs/getting-started/best-practices
- https://ocean.io/
- 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: Ocean.io
serviceCategory: Sales Intelligence
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Usage-based
  billingFrequency: Unknown
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
  - Subscription
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Ocean.io
  ServiceCategory: Sales Intelligence
  ProviderName: Ocean.io
  PublisherName: Ocean.io
  InvoiceIssuerName: Ocean.io
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Subscription
meters:
- name: api_credits
  description: >-
    Shared credit pool consumed by every endpoint. Published rates: search 0.2/result, enrich
    0.1/result, lookup 0.05/result, autocomplete 0.1/call, email reveal 1/email found, phone reveal
    10/phone found; data-fields, credit-balance and warmup are free.
  unit: credit
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - endpoint
- name: email_credits
  description: Separate email-credit balance returned by GET /v2/credits/balance.
  unit: credit
  aggregation: sum
- name: phone_credits
  description: Separate phone-credit balance returned by GET /v2/credits/balance.
  unit: credit
  aggregation: sum
- name: daily_request_allowance
  description: Requests remaining against the daily rate limit (dailyLimitRateLeft).
  unit: request
  aggregation: min
principles:
- name: Visibility
  description: >-
    Poll GET /v2/credits/balance for credits, emailCredits, phoneCredits and dailyLimitRateLeft;
    it is the only runtime cost signal the API exposes.
- name: Allocation
  description: Allocate seats and credits to ABM/RevOps teams.
- name: Optimization
  description: >-
    Use Lookup over Search when domains are known (0.05 vs 0.2 per result); probe with size:1 before
    a large search; call the free Warmup before batch enrichment; treat phone reveal (10 credits) as
    an exception path, not a default.
- name: Accountability
  description: RevOps owns the contract.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com