specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: Pendle
providerId: pendle
created: '2026-06-14'
modified: '2026-06-14'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - DeFi
  - Yield Tokenization
  - Crypto
  - FinOps
  - FOCUS
description: >-
  FinOps view of Pendle V2 API costs. Billing is weekly rather than monthly, using a Computing
  Unit (CU) model. The free tier has no cost. Paid plans are $10, $20, or $40 per week (flat),
  with no additional usage-based overage; instead, requests are throttled once CU limits are
  reached. Cost allocation is per API key. Hosted SDK aggregator CU costs are dynamic and can
  be zeroed out by supplying custom aggregator keys in request headers.
sources:
  - https://docs.pendle.finance/pendle-v2-dev/Backend/ApiOverview
  - https://api-v2.pendle.finance/dashboard
  - 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: Pendle
serviceCategory: DeFi Protocol API
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Subscription
  billingFrequency: Weekly
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
    - Subscription
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Pendle V2 Core API
  ServiceCategory: DeFi Protocol API
  ProviderName: Pendle
  PublisherName: Pendle
  InvoiceIssuerName: Pendle
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Subscription
meters:
  - name: free_weekly_subscription
    description: No-cost weekly access, 100 CU/min and 200,000 CU/week.
    unit: week
    aggregation: sum
    price: 0.00
    dimensions:
      - api_key
      - plan_tier
  - name: starter_weekly_subscription
    description: Flat $10/week subscription, 500 CU/min and 1,000,000 CU/week.
    unit: week
    aggregation: sum
    price: 10.00
    dimensions:
      - api_key
      - plan_tier
  - name: growth_weekly_subscription
    description: Flat $20/week subscription, 1,000 CU/min and 2,000,000 CU/week.
    unit: week
    aggregation: sum
    price: 20.00
    dimensions:
      - api_key
      - plan_tier
  - name: scale_weekly_subscription
    description: Flat $40/week subscription, 2,000 CU/min and 4,000,000 CU/week.
    unit: week
    aggregation: sum
    price: 40.00
    dimensions:
      - api_key
      - plan_tier
principles:
  - name: Visibility
    description: >-
      Tag each API key to the consuming workload or team. Monitor X-RateLimit-Remaining and
      X-RateLimit-Weekly-Remaining headers to track CU burn rate in real time.
  - name: Allocation
    description: >-
      Allocate weekly subscription cost directly to the team or product owning each API key.
      Maintain one key per bounded context to avoid cross-team attribution confusion.
  - name: Optimization
    description: >-
      Stay on the free tier for development and low-frequency queries. Upgrade only when CU
      limits are consistently saturated. Supply custom aggregator keys (KyberSwap, Odos, OKX,
      ParaSwap) via request headers to reduce Hosted SDK CU costs to zero for those aggregators.
      Use cross-chain endpoints (/v1/markets/all, /v1/assets/all) instead of per-chain loops
      to reduce total CU consumption.
  - name: Accountability
    description: >-
      Assign a billing owner per API key. Review weekly CU consumption against plan limits
      each billing period. Set alerts when weekly CU remaining drops below 20%.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com