specification: FinOps Framework
specificationVersion: '1.0'
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/
provider: Spider Cloud
providerId: spider-cloud
publisherName: Spider Cloud
serviceCategory: API
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
tags:
  - Crawling
  - Scraping
  - Data Extraction
  - URLs
  - AI
  - Markdown
  - MCP
  - FinOps
  - Cost Management
  - FOCUS
description: FinOps framework definition for the Spider Cloud API. Spider bills on two primary meters —
  bandwidth ($1/GB) and compute ($0.001/minute) — with failed requests excluded from billing. This
  FOCUS-aligned mapping captures the bandwidth and compute meters, the credit-based purchase model with
  volume bonuses, and unit-economics for cost-per-page and cost-per-GB reporting.
principles:
  - name: Visibility
    description: Surface bandwidth and compute consumption in near real-time so engineering and finance
      can see exactly how each crawl, scrape, or search consumes credits.
  - name: Allocation
    description: Tag every chargeable API call with the consuming team, environment, and application so
      the credit burn-down can be allocated cleanly.
  - name: Optimization
    description: Tune crawl depth, output format, and headless-browser usage to minimize bandwidth and
      compute per page of useful data extracted.
  - name: Accountability
    description: Establish budget owners and chargeback or showback flows for each team consuming Spider
      credits.
domains:
  - name: Understand Usage and Cost
    capabilities:
      - Data Ingestion
      - Allocation
      - Reporting and Analytics
      - Anomaly Management
  - name: Quantify Business Value
    capabilities:
      - Planning and Estimating
      - Forecasting
      - Budgeting
      - Benchmarking
      - Unit Economics
  - name: Optimize Usage and Cost
    capabilities:
      - Architecting for Cloud
      - Rate Optimization
      - Workload Optimization
      - Cloud Sustainability
      - Licensing and SaaS
  - name: Manage the FinOps Practice
    capabilities:
      - FinOps Practice Operations
      - FinOps Education and Enablement
      - Invoicing and Chargeback
      - Onboarding Workloads
      - Intersecting Disciplines
billingModel:
  pricingCategory: Usage-Based
  billingFrequency: PrePaid Credits
  billingCurrency: USD
  chargeCategories:
    - Usage
    - Purchase
    - Credit
    - Adjustment
  chargeFrequency: Usage-Based
focusColumns:
  ServiceName: Spider Cloud
  ServiceCategory: Developer Tools / Web Data API
  ProviderName: Spider Cloud
  PublisherName: Spider Cloud
  InvoiceIssuerName: Spider Cloud
  PricingCategory: Usage-Based
  PricingUnit: GB / compute-minute
  BillingCurrency: USD
  ChargeCategory: Usage
meters:
  - name: bandwidth_gb
    description: Outbound bandwidth in gigabytes consumed by successful responses.
    unit: GB
    aggregation: sum
    rate: 1.00
    rateCurrency: USD
    dimensions:
      - endpoint
      - region
      - consumer
  - name: compute_minutes
    description: Server-side compute time consumed by the request.
    unit: minute
    aggregation: sum
    rate: 0.001
    rateCurrency: USD
    dimensions:
      - endpoint
      - tier
      - consumer
  - name: successful_requests
    description: Count of billable (successful) API requests; failed requests are excluded from billing.
    unit: request
    aggregation: sum
    dimensions:
      - endpoint
      - tier
      - region
      - consumer
  - name: credit_balance
    description: Remaining pre-paid credit balance reported via /data/credits.
    unit: USD
    aggregation: snapshot
    dimensions:
      - account
apis:
  - name: Spider API
    baseURL: https://api.spider.cloud
    tags:
      - Crawling
      - Scraping
      - Data Extraction
      - URLs
      - AI
      - Markdown
    serviceName: Spider API
    serviceCategory: API
  - name: Spider Cloud MCP Server
    baseURL: https://mcp.spider.cloud/mcp
    tags:
      - MCP
      - AI
      - Agents
    serviceName: Spider Cloud MCP Server
    serviceCategory: API
unitEconomics:
  - name: Cost per GB Extracted
    metric: billed_cost / bandwidth_gb
    target: '$1.00'
  - name: Cost per Compute Minute
    metric: billed_cost / compute_minutes
    target: '$0.001'
  - name: Cost per 1K Successful Requests
    metric: billed_cost / (successful_requests / 1000)
    target: TBD
  - name: Effective Cost per Page Crawled
    metric: billed_cost / pages_crawled
    target: TBD
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com