FOCUS column
PricingCategory
The pricing model that applied to the charge, from a fixed set: Standard for on-demand list pricing, Committed for usage covered by a reservation, savings plan or committed-use discount, Dynamic for market-driven prices such as spot or preemptible capacity, and Other. It explains why two identical usages can cost different amounts.
Example
Two hours of the same instance type show Standard at $0.10 and Committed at $0.06, the second being covered by a savings plan.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds PricingCategory 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 | PricingCategory | as is |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | PricingCategory | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | PricingModel | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | PricingModel | as is |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | Not carried | — |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost uses the category to report commitment coverage per consumer and to keep spot and on-demand spend apart in forecasts.
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.