# Provenance stamped 2026-10-07 (roadmap#943): written by an API Evangelist sweep (undated — the file carries no date and git cannot supply one), not
# harvested from the provider. `method: generated` so the economics campaign may replace it with a
# dated, verbatim transcription; every figure below is unverified until it does.
# Coverage demoted 2026-10-07 (roadmap#942, PLAN.md Stage A): this file was written by an API Evangelist
# sweep and names no billing unit, meters or pricing category read from the provider — it restates the
# FinOps framework. It is `x-coverage: unmeasured`, and the FOCUS alignment it claimed has been removed.
x-coverage: unmeasured
method: generated
finops:
  model: free-open-access
  description: >
    STRING is a publicly funded research database with no cost for API access.
    All data is available under Creative Commons BY 4.0, permitting both
    academic and commercial use at no charge. The database is operated by
    the STRING Consortium (SIB, CPR/Novo Nordisk Foundation, and EMBL) and
    funded through institutional and public research grants.
  pricing:
    - tier: All Users
      cost: 0.00
      currency: USD
      billing: free
      notes: >
        No payment required. No subscription tiers. No per-request fees.
        No data egress costs. Commercial use is permitted under CC-BY 4.0
        with attribution requirement.
  costDrivers:
    - name: Attribution
      description: >
        Not a monetary cost, but users must provide appropriate credit when
        using STRING data in publications, products, or services. Cite the
        relevant STRING paper and attribute the data source.
      monetary: false
  budgetingNotes: >
    Because STRING is entirely free, there are no direct financial costs to
    model or budget for. Organizations should consider indirect costs such as
    developer time for integration and any infrastructure needed to cache or
    store results locally (to comply with the recommended 1-second delay
    between requests). For large-scale use cases, downloading the full dataset
    is more efficient than API polling and avoids any risk of server-side
    throttling.
  license:
    type: Creative Commons BY 4.0
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    commercialUse: true
    attributionRequired: true