providerId: sp-global
name: S&P Global / Kensho API FinOps Mapping
description: |
  Maps S&P Global's API billing surface to the FinOps Foundation FOCUS data specification. Because S&P Global / Kensho
  does not publish per-call or per-document price cards on its public documentation site, this mapping captures the
  observable cost dimensions — service, product, charge category, billing cadence, and customer-negotiated quantity
  units — without inventing numbers.
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specification:
  name: FOCUS
  version: '1.0'
  url: https://focus.finops.org

providers:
  - providerName: S&P Global
    publisherName: S&P Global Inc.
    invoiceIssuer: S&P Global Market Intelligence / Kensho Technologies, LLC
    billingAccountType: enterprise
    billingCurrency: USD
    billingCadence: annual

services:
  - serviceName: S&P Global LLM-Ready API
    serviceCategory: AI and Machine Learning
    serviceSubcategory: Generative AI Data Access
    chargeCategory: subscription
    pricingUnit: subscription-tier
    quantityNotes: Subscription tier defines included dataset breadth and request volume; overage is negotiated.
    skus:
      - sku: kensho-llm-ready-api-subscription
        productName: LLM-Ready API
  - serviceName: Kensho Extract
    serviceCategory: AI and Machine Learning
    serviceSubcategory: Document Intelligence
    chargeCategory: subscription
    pricingUnit: pages-per-month-or-subscription
    quantityNotes: Typically priced on monthly document or page volume; tier-based.
    skus:
      - sku: kensho-extract-subscription
        productName: Extract
  - serviceName: Kensho NERD
    serviceCategory: AI and Machine Learning
    serviceSubcategory: Natural Language Processing
    chargeCategory: subscription
    pricingUnit: subscription-tier
    skus:
      - sku: kensho-nerd-subscription
        productName: NERD
  - serviceName: Kensho Scribe
    serviceCategory: AI and Machine Learning
    serviceSubcategory: Speech-to-Text
    chargeCategory: subscription
    pricingUnit: hours-of-audio-per-month
    quantityNotes: Batch and Real-Time tiers; Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) priced separately.
    skus:
      - sku: kensho-scribe-batch-subscription
        productName: Scribe Batch
      - sku: kensho-scribe-realtime-subscription
        productName: Scribe Real-Time
      - sku: kensho-scribe-hitl
        productName: Scribe HITL
  - serviceName: Kensho Grounding Agent (Alpha)
    serviceCategory: AI and Machine Learning
    serviceSubcategory: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    chargeCategory: alpha-evaluation
    pricingUnit: not-applicable
    skus:
      - sku: kensho-grounding-alpha
        productName: Grounding Agent
  - serviceName: S&P Capital IQ Pro
    serviceCategory: Financial Data
    serviceSubcategory: Market Intelligence Platform
    chargeCategory: subscription
    pricingUnit: named-user-seats
    skus:
      - sku: capital-iq-pro-enterprise
        productName: Capital IQ Pro

allocationDimensions:
  - businessUnit
  - dataDomain
  - apiProduct
  - environment
  - region

tagging:
  recommendedTags:
    - cost-center
    - project
    - team
    - workload-name
    - dataset
    - api-product

reportingNotes:
  - Customers should request itemised usage from S&P Global Market Intelligence for cost-allocation reporting.
  - MCP-server-fronted consumption can be metered at the adapter using outbound HTTP middleware.
  - Bundle the LLM-ready API subscription with Capital IQ Pro seats when negotiating volume discounts.