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Microsoft Azure Pipelines Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for Azure Pipelines — billed per parallel job (concurrency) per month rather than per build minute. Two SKUs (Microsoft-hosted at $40/job/month and self-hosted at $15/job/month) plus free grants. Optimization centers on right-sizing parallel-job count to actual queue depth, since over-provisioning concurrency is the primary waste mode.

Microsoft Azure Pipelines Finops is the FinOps profile for Azure Pipelines on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 5 billable meters, billed in USD (settlement varies), on a monthly cycle, and pricing category subscription (per parallel job).

The profile maps 9 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Automation, Build, CI/CD, Deployment, and DevOps.

Category: Developer Tools / CI-CD Pricing: Subscription (per Parallel Job) Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
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Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseTaxAdjustmentCredit

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Microsoft Corporation
PricingCategory
Subscription
PricingUnit
parallel-job-month
ProviderName
Microsoft Azure DevOps
PublisherName
Microsoft Corporation
ServiceCategory
Developer Tools
ServiceName
Azure Pipelines

Meters

hosted_parallel_jobs
Unit: parallel-job-month
Microsoft-hosted parallel job concurrency purchased.
selfhosted_parallel_jobs
Unit: parallel-job-month
Self-hosted parallel job concurrency purchased.
hosted_minutes_consumed
Unit: minute
Microsoft-hosted agent minutes used (informational; not billed under parallel-job plan, but exposed via Pool consumption report).
queue_depth
Unit: minute
Average queued-job time per pool, used to size parallelism.
legacy_minutes
Unit: minute
Per-minute usage for grandfathered customers ($0.05 / $0.01 tiers).

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