FOCUS is an open specification that normalizes billing datasets across AI, cloud, SaaS, data center and other technology vendors. Twenty-one vendors now generate FOCUS data, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle, with Databricks and Snowflake among them.
Before FOCUS, every provider had its own field names and its own idea of an effective cost, a commitment or a region. A multi-cloud team built a pipeline for each one and reconciled them by hand.
The monthly summary invoice is enough to reconcile, and no more. Provider dashboards are flexible and less granular. The detailed report or billing API, updated daily, is where FinOps work happens, and it is the level FOCUS standardizes.
At the sourcefocus.finops.org
Cost = usage × rate
Every cloud charge resolves to a quantity consumed and a price per unit. Everything else in a billing file is detail about one of those two terms: the resource, the region, the account, the tag, the commitment that changed the rate.
How that detail is named, so usage and rate stay comparable across providers.
MagicOrange is a Premier Sponsor and Governing Board member of the FinOps Foundation, the body that stewards FOCUS.
| FOCUS element | Where it runs |
|---|---|
| Native billing ingestion | Data Studio, included with every capability: 233 connectors, including direct billing API connections to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, with no data warehouse in between. |
| FOCUS normalization | Every hyperscaler bill enters in one standard format, so the same allocation runs across all of them. |
| Tag mapping | Allocate with your tags, without tags or on rules MagicOrange derives, and mix all three in one model. |
| Sign off | A formal gate: data is approved by a named person, with a timestamp, before it enters the model. |
| Daily allocation | FinOps: normalized cloud cost allocated daily, to services, products, business units and customers, instead of monthly after the invoice. |
| The calculation engine | Databricks-native, so the arithmetic is done by rules and never by a language model. |
| Token cost | AI Economics: token usage, model API, agent workload and GPU are shipped standard objects. Cloud-borne AI cost enters through FOCUS today. |
The principle that points to FOCUS.
The category the token fields will serve.
Where FOCUS is the entry format for the public cloud and AI spend categories.
