name: World Bank API FinOps
description: >-
  Financial operations analysis for World Bank API consumption. All World Bank
  APIs are free of charge under the CC BY 4.0 open data license. There are no
  direct API costs, usage-based pricing, or subscription fees. FinOps
  considerations center on infrastructure costs for consuming applications and
  data storage for locally cached datasets.
cost_model:
  type: Free / Open Data
  api_fees: 0
  currency: USD
  license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
  authentication_cost: None - no API key purchase required
  subscription_cost: None - no subscription tiers
direct_costs:
  - category: API Access
    cost: 0
    notes: All World Bank APIs are free with no usage-based fees
  - category: Registration / API Key
    cost: 0
    notes: No registration or API key required for any endpoint
  - category: Data Downloads
    cost: 0
    notes: Bulk CSV, XML, and Excel downloads are free via Data Catalog API
indirect_costs:
  - category: Compute
    notes: >-
      Consumer application hosting costs for processing World Bank API
      responses. Cost varies by cloud provider and usage volume.
  - category: Storage
    notes: >-
      Local caching of World Bank datasets recommended by documentation to
      handle outages. Storage cost depends on dataset size and provider.
      World Development Indicators database is large; selective caching
      is advisable.
  - category: Bandwidth
    notes: >-
      Inbound data transfer costs may apply depending on cloud provider.
      World Bank API responses can be large for broad indicator queries;
      pagination reduces per-request payload size.
  - category: Engineering
    notes: >-
      Developer time for integration, error handling, pagination logic,
      and caching layer implementation. No vendor-specific tooling
      licensing required.
optimization_recommendations:
  - Use pagination (per_page parameter) to retrieve only needed records
  - Cache indicator data locally since historical values do not change
  - Filter by specific countries and date ranges rather than pulling global datasets
  - Use JSON format (format=json) to reduce response payload size vs XML default
  - For SDMX queries, scope to specific series and countries to stay within 15,000 data point limit
  - Use mrv (most recent values) parameter to avoid pulling full time series when only current data is needed
  - Leverage downloadformat=csv for bulk data needs instead of repeated paginated API calls
budget_considerations:
  - No vendor invoice or API spend tracking required for World Bank API itself
  - Monitor application-level infrastructure costs (compute, storage, bandwidth)
  - No rate limit overage fees - requests that exceed constraints simply fail with errors
  - Plan for API availability variability; no SLA means potential for unplanned downtime impacting pipelines
data_licensing:
  license: CC BY 4.0
  attribution_required: true
  attribution_format: "The World Bank: [Dataset Name]: [Data Source]"
  commercial_use: Permitted with attribution
  redistribution: Permitted with original license terms
  contact: data@worldbank.org
contact:
  - FN: World Bank Data Help Desk
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org
    email: data@worldbank.org
references:
  - type: Terms of Use
    url: https://www.worldbank.org/en/about/legal/terms-of-use-for-datasets
  - type: Developer Overview
    url: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/889386-developer-information-overview