Planned FOCUS 1.5 ratification
3 Dec 2026
44 days from our last check (2026-10-20). Public announcement: December 2026. The release is final only when the Steering Committee ratifies it.
Timeline
- 4 Jun 2026 FOCUS 1.4 ratified (token billing via ConsumedQuantity/Unit, SkuId, PricingCurrency)
- Apr – 8 Oct 2026 1.5 development; Member approval closed 8 Oct
- 8 – 29 Oct 2026 Consistency review
- 2 Nov – 1 Dec 2026 IP rights review (30+ days)
- 3 Dec 2026 Approval and ratification
Sources: FOCUS 1.5 scope, FOCUS 1.4 release
What FOCUS 1.5 adds for AI
Which model
Recommended SKU Price Details properties ModelDeveloper, ModelFamily, ModelId, ModelVersion. AI spend becomes comparable across providers.
Which kind of token
TokenDirection (Input / Output) and TokenCacheAction (Uncached / Read / Write / Other). Reasoning tokens metered separately count as Output.
Who drove the spend
New conditional columns PrincipalId, CredentialId and RequesterDetails: the user or service account, and the API key or session, behind a charge.
Credits as a currency
Provider credits can be recorded as a consumption currency, alongside the billed cost in national currency.
Price catalog (final review)
A SKU Price dataset with list and negotiated prices, tiers and dates, to price a workload before it runs.
Not in 1.5
Recommendation dataset, region scope for prices, and AI requests such as modality, batch/priority tiers, provisioned throughput and context-cache storage fees.
Why gateways matter here: the FOCUS 1.5 scope says the new principal and credential columns do not identify who benefits from a charge when "a shared workload, a gateway, or an embedded assistant" acts for people who never appear in billing data. A gateway that tags requests by team, user and key is where that attribution can live today. Columns added in 1.5 are additive; data that conforms to 1.4 stays valid.
Billing sources: native FOCUS exports
| Source | FOCUS export | Version | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS (incl. Bedrock) | yes | 1.2 (GA) | AWS Data Exports for FOCUS 1.2 is generally available. source |
| Microsoft Azure (incl. Azure OpenAI / Foundry) | yes | 1.2; 1.4 support announced | Cost Management FOCUS exports with a published conformance report. FOCUS 1.4 support announced at FinOps X 2026 (keynote). source |
| Google Cloud (incl. Vertex AI) | partial | 1.2 (preview) | FOCUS BigQuery export in preview, with documented conformance gaps. source |
| OpenAI API | no | – | Usage/cost CSV export from the Usage dashboard; no FOCUS format found. source |
| Anthropic API | no | – | Admin API usage and cost reports; no FOCUS format found (secondary source). source |
Per-tool status
"Public 1.5 commitment" = a public statement by the vendor that it will export FOCUS 1.5. We found none for any tool as of 2026-10-20. We will update this when vendors announce support.
| Tool | FOCUS export today | Version | Details | Public 1.5 commitment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock (native cost controls)Gateway | yes | 1.2 (AWS bill) | AWS Data Exports FOCUS 1.2 (GA) covers Bedrock spend on the AWS bill source | none found |
| LiteLLMGateway | yes | 1.2 | Experimental export conforming to FOCUS 1.2 (Parquet/CSV to S3, GCS, Vantage; also Ternary and Mavvrik connectors) source | none found |
| ReveniumFinOps platform | yes | 1.0 | FOCUS v1.0 export added in v2.6.0 (19 Feb 2026); CSV/Parquet to S3 or Snowflake source | none found |
| VantageFinOps platform | yes | 1.3 | FOCUS 1.3 imports and exports source | none found |
| Azure API Management (AI gateway)Gateway | partial | 1.2 (Azure bill) | Azure Cost Management exports the Azure bill in FOCUS; per-consumer token data from APIM is not in that export source | none found |
| CloudZeroFinOps platform | partial | import only | FOCUS import (FOCUS Adaptor); native FOCUS export not documented source | none found |
| FinoutFinOps platform | partial | unknown | FOCUS used as a data model / virtual tags; export format not confirmed source | none found |
| Flexera One (AI cost management)FinOps platform | partial | 1.0 (+ some 1.2 fields), ingest | Ingests FOCUS 1.0 bill data (with selected 1.2 fields); export not confirmed source | none found |
| Google Cloud Apigee (AI gateway) + Vertex AI controlsGateway | partial | 1.2 preview (GCP bill) | Cloud Billing FOCUS BigQuery export (preview) covers the Google Cloud bill; Apigee per-consumer token data is not in it source | none found |
| TernaryFinOps platform | partial | 1.2 (ingest) | Ingests FOCUS (AI gateway connections take FOCUS 1.2 CSV) and documents FOCUS mappings; a FOCUS export was not confirmed source | none found |
| BifrostGateway | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found | none found |
| Envoy AI GatewayGateway | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found | none found |
| HeliconeObservability | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found | none found |
| Kong AI GatewayGateway | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found in Kong docs | none found |
| KosmoyGateway | unknown | – | CSV/API exports described; FOCUS not mentioned (https://www.kosmoy.com/platform/cost-tracking/) | none found |
| LangSmith (incl. LLM Gateway)Observability | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found | none found |
| LangfuseObservability | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found | none found |
| Pay-iFinOps platform | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found | none found |
| Solo Enterprise for agentgateway (ex-Gloo AI Gateway)Gateway | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found | none found |
| Traceloop / OpenLLMetryObservability | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found | none found |
| Vercel AI GatewayGateway | unknown | – | No FOCUS export found | none found |
| Cloudflare AI GatewayGateway | no | – | No FOCUS export documented; logs via Logpush (billed) source | none found |
| OpenRouterGateway | no | – | Activity logs & export; no FOCUS format documented source | none found |
| Portkey (Prisma AIRS AI Gateway)Gateway | no | – | No FOCUS export documented; JSONL log export (Enterprise only, 50k logs per job) source | none found |
| TrueFoundry AI GatewayGateway | no | – | CSV/API metrics export; no FOCUS format documented source | none found |