Title
FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS)
Date
7/11/2025
(Last Updated: 06/25/2025)
(Last Updated: 06/25/2025)
Status
Active
Abstract
The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) is a project of the FinOps Foundation under The Linux Foundation that develops and designs specifications for generating a cloud-based billing data platform for financial practitioners to help them normalize cost when billing. The Specification is a set of requirements for FOCUS billing datasets which defines the data that must be present in the file and how the column names must be written.
Specifications