name: ProductPlan FinOps
description: FinOps Framework 1.0 FOCUS-aligned cost management guidance for ProductPlan subscriptions. Covers cost allocation, optimization, and forecasting for teams consuming ProductPlan's road mapping and product intelligence platform.
specificationVersion: '1.0'
url: https://www.productplan.com/pricing/
focus:
  provider: ProductPlan
  service: Product Intelligence Platform
  pricingModel: per-seat-annual
  currency: USD
costAllocation:
  dimensions:
    - name: Editor Seats
      description: The primary cost driver. Only users who actively build, edit, or manage roadmaps consume paid seats. Viewers are free and unlimited.
      unit: seat/year
    - name: Team or Department
      description: Allocate costs by tagging seats to product teams, business units, or cost centers for internal chargeback.
    - name: Product Line
      description: Map roadmap workspaces or portfolios to product lines for granular cost tracking.
optimization:
  recommendations:
    - name: Audit Editor Seats Regularly
      description: Conduct quarterly audits to identify inactive editor seats. Downgrade inactive users to viewer roles to avoid paying for unused capacity.
    - name: Maximize Viewer Usage
      description: Viewers are free and unlimited. Prefer viewer roles for stakeholders who only consume roadmap data.
    - name: Annual vs. Monthly Billing
      description: ProductPlan bills annually only as of 2024. Confirm seat counts before renewal to avoid over-provisioning for the next annual term.
    - name: Consolidate Workspaces
      description: Merge overlapping roadmap workspaces to reduce duplicate editor seats across teams working on related products.
    - name: Leverage API and Webhooks
      description: Use the REST API and webhooks to automate data synchronization with Jira, GitHub, and Azure DevOps instead of purchasing additional integration tooling.
forecasting:
  notes: Costs are predictable on an annual seat basis. Forecast by tracking headcount growth in product teams quarter-over-quarter. New editor seats added mid-cycle may be prorated per your subscription agreement.
  inputs:
    - Current editor seat count
    - Projected team growth rate
    - Renewal date
    - Custom negotiated rate (enterprise)
tagging:
  recommended:
    - team
    - department
    - cost-center
    - product-line
    - environment
waste:
  signals:
    - Editor seats with zero logins in the past 90 days
    - Duplicate roadmaps covering the same product area
    - Unused integrations consuming API quota