FOCUS column
ListCost
What the row would have cost at the provider’s public list price, before any negotiated, commitment or promotional discount. It exists so the value of discounts can be measured: the gap between ListCost and EffectiveCost is the saving the organization’s agreements and commitments produced.
Example
A compute hour with a list price of $0.10 shows ListCost $0.10 while its EffectiveCost under a savings plan is $0.06.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds ListCost in each format the platform ingests, and the transform applied. A format with no row does not carry the column; the value is then absent rather than guessed.
| Export | Source column | Transform |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Data Exports, FOCUS | ListCost | cast to decimal |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | ListCost | cast to decimal |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | Not carried | — |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | Not carried | — |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | Not carried | — |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost shows list and effective cost side by side on statements so negotiated and committed discounts are visible rather than silently applied.
Related columns
About this reference
Generated from the column contract and provider rules that Runcost runs, and written by Faisal Saleem, Founder. The normative definitions are in the FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS specification at focus.finops.org.