specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
schema: https://www.finops.org/framework/
provider: Snorkel AI
providerId: snorkel-ai
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- AI
- Data Development
- Programmatic Labeling
- Weak Supervision
- Evaluation
- FinOps
- Cost Management
- FOCUS
description: >-
  FinOps view of Snorkel AI spend. Snorkel's commercial model is sales-led and
  contract-based rather than metered per-API-call: the enterprise Snorkel Flow
  platform and Snorkel Expert Data-as-a-Service are negotiated annual / per-
  engagement agreements, scaling by users, data volume, deployment model, and
  professional services. The open-source snorkel library is free. There is no
  public usage-based price list, so cost allocation centers on contract value,
  seats, and provisioned instance / compute footprint rather than per-token or
  per-request meters.
notes: >-
  Per-engagement and per-instance costs are negotiated and not publicly
  metered; reconcile against the order form, instance sizing, and any
  cloud/compute pass-through during a FinOps review.
sources:
- https://snorkel.ai/snorkel-flow/
- https://snorkel.ai/expert-data-as-a-service/
- 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: Snorkel AI
serviceCategory: AI and Machine Learning
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Commitment-Based
  billingFrequency: Annual
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
  - Purchase
  - Usage
  - Adjustment
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Snorkel Flow
  ServiceCategory: AI and Machine Learning
  ProviderName: Snorkel AI
  PublisherName: Snorkel AI
  InvoiceIssuerName: Snorkel AI
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Purchase
  PricingCategory: Commitment-Based
meters:
- name: platform_subscription
  description: Annual Snorkel Flow platform subscription / commitment value.
  unit: contract
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - deployment
- name: seats
  description: Licensed platform users / seats included in the agreement.
  unit: users
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
- name: instance_compute
  description: >-
    Provisioned Snorkel Flow instance compute footprint backing labeling,
    training, and evaluation workloads.
  unit: compute
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - deployment
- name: expert_data_engagement
  description: >-
    Snorkel Expert Data-as-a-Service custom dataset / benchmark engagement
    value, scoped per project.
  unit: engagement
  aggregation: sum
  dimensions:
  - account
  - project
principles:
- name: Visibility
  description: >-
    Track contract value, seat counts, and provisioned instance footprint;
    there are no public per-call meters to export.
- name: Allocation
  description: >-
    Map seats, projects, and expert-data engagements to internal teams and
    cost centers.
- name: Optimization
  description: >-
    Right-size seats and instance compute to actual usage; use the free
    open-source snorkel library for workloads that do not require the platform;
    scope expert-data engagements tightly.
- name: Accountability
  description: >-
    Assign owners per platform project and per expert-data engagement; review
    contract utilization against budget on the renewal cycle.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com