Summary
Cloudflare introduced a Billable Usage API that gives developers and FinOps teams a single endpoint for programmatic cost and usage visibility across self-serve products. It is built around the FOCUS cloud-cost specification, though Cloudflare notes it is not yet fully conformant and sees this as the first step toward full conformance.
What changed
Cloudflare shipped a new Billable Usage API exposing cost and usage across self-serve products from one endpoint, formatted around the FOCUS specification used by AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle exports. A few FOCUS-required columns are not yet in the payload.
Why it matters
FinOps teams standardize cost analysis on FOCUS-formatted data across clouds; a FOCUS-aligned Cloudflare feed lets them fold Cloudflare spend into the same tooling as their other providers. Programmatic access also enables automated budget monitoring and chargeback without scraping dashboards.
Evidence excerpt
programmatic visibility into cost and usage across self-serve products, built around the FOCUS specification.