Drone · FinOps Profile

Drone Ci Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps profile for Drone. As an open-source self-hosted CI, Drone has no SaaS invoice; the cost surface is the underlying cloud spend for the Drone server and runner pool. Customers needing commercial support pay Harness via Harness Continuous Integration contracts.

Drone Ci Finops is the FinOps profile for Drone on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 4 billable meters, billed in USD, on a continuous (cloud-billed) cycle, and pricing category self-hosted (no saas billing).

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include DevOps, CI/CD, Container-Native, Open Source, and YAML.

Category: DevOps / CI/CD Pricing: Self-Hosted (no SaaS billing) Billing: Continuous (cloud-billed) FOCUS v1.3
DevOpsCI/CDContainer-NativeOpen SourceYAMLFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
Data Spec

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
cloud provider
PricingUnit
vm-hour
ProviderName
Harness
PublisherName
Drone
ServiceCategory
DevOps
ServiceName
Drone CI (self-hosted)

Meters

server_vm_hours
Unit: vm-hour
Drone server VM hours (cloud-billed).
runner_vm_hours
Unit: vm-hour
Drone runner VM hours (cloud-billed).
storage_gb_month
Unit: GB-month
Database, cache and artifact storage attached to Drone.
harness_ci_subscription
Unit: contract-month
Optional Harness CI subscription for the commercial successor.

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