finops:
  provider: UN Comtrade
  description: Financial operations and cost management guidance for UN Comtrade API consumption.

  cost_model:
    type: flat_annual_subscription
    notes: UN Comtrade uses a flat annual subscription model with no per-call or per-record charges beyond the subscription fee. Free tiers are available with usage rate limits.

  tiers:
    - name: Free Preview
      annual_cost_usd: 0
      monthly_equivalent_usd: 0
      best_for: Exploration, prototyping, and testing without an account

    - name: Free Registered
      annual_cost_usd: 0
      monthly_equivalent_usd: 0
      best_for: Researchers and developers with moderate query volumes under 500 calls per day

    - name: Premium Individual
      annual_cost_usd: 2000
      monthly_equivalent_usd: 167
      best_for: Individual analysts or researchers requiring bulk downloads and higher call volumes

    - name: Premium Institutional Pro 1 (non-profit / academic)
      annual_cost_usd: 6000
      monthly_equivalent_usd: 500
      best_for: Universities, research institutes, and NGOs needing institution-wide unlimited access

    - name: Premium Institutional Pro 2 (private sector / for-profit)
      annual_cost_usd: 12000
      monthly_equivalent_usd: 1000
      best_for: Commercial organizations, analytics firms, and financial data providers

  cost_optimization:
    - Use the free registered tier for development and low-volume production workloads
    - Cache API responses locally to reduce redundant calls against daily quota
    - Use bulk file endpoints instead of repeated individual queries for large dataset downloads
    - Use async/batch endpoints for large extractions to maximize records per call (up to 2.5M)
    - Restrict date range queries to minimize over-fetching; queries are limited to 12 months or 12 years per call
    - Academic institutions should use Pro 1 pricing rather than Pro 2 to reduce costs by 50%

  additional_fees:
    - name: Re-dissemination License (Visualization/Analytics)
      description: Fee required for active Premium Pro subscribers who wish to re-disseminate trade data publicly in visualization or analytics products
      contact: subscriptions@un.org

    - name: Re-dissemination License (Data Extraction)
      description: Fee required for active Premium Pro subscribers who wish to re-disseminate raw or processed trade data for third-party data extraction applications
      contact: subscriptions@un.org

  procurement:
    purchase_url: https://shop.un.org/databases
    contact_email: subscriptions@un.org
    trial_available: true
    trial_contact: subscriptions@un.org