Hand finance a file
Finance wants a file they can open, not a dashboard. Statement offers three files, each for a different reader: pick one, look at its first rows, then download it.
You will learn
- Which of the three files to hand over
- How to hand over one month on its own
- How to check a file before you download it
- How to write the files from a terminal on your own machines
Where this works
You don't need a plan to read on.| Free editionyour own machines | Hosted Freehosted | Teamhosted | Businesshosted | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The statement as a spreadsheet (CSV) | — | |||
| The lines behind the totals, as JSON | ||||
| A FOCUS file for finance tools | — | — | ||
| Write the files from a terminal | — | — | — |
Find the files
Open Statement and switch to Take it with you. Each file your plan includes has a Download button and a Preview.
The statement, for finance records
Free editionTeamBusinessStatement CSV is the statement line by line: the month, the provider and model, what it cost, and, where it's known, the team, project, customer and agent it belongs to. It opens in any spreadsheet.
Every line also says how sure its figure is, so an estimate is never mistaken for the bill.
To hand over one provider's month on its own, open that month under By provider and period and choose Download this period.
Every field, for scripts
JSON has every field of the lines behind the totals, made for scripts and pipelines rather than for reading.
A FOCUS file, for FinOps tools
Free editionBusinessFOCUS (the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification) is a shared format for cost data that FinOps tools read. The file has every column FOCUS 1.2 requires, under the names FOCUS gives them.
Your team, project, customer, agent and run travel with each line as extra columns, and its cost column adds up to AxiGate's own total, to the cent.
Look before you download
Preview shows the first rows of the real file and how many it has in all: 50 rows of a CSV, or 15 entries of the JSON. Download full takes the whole file.
From a terminal, on your own machines
Free editionOn your own machines, the dashboard's Statement knows only what the gateway recorded. To put the provider's bill in the file too, run analyze on the bill together with the gateway's ledger file (the path serve printed when it started).
It writes statement.csv, with report.txt beside it, into the folder --out names; without --out they land in the folder you run it from. --focus writes a FOCUS file too, at the path you give it.
axigate-finops analyze ~/Downloads/claude_api_cost_2026_08.csv <ledger file> --out ~/Downloads --focus ~/Downloads/focus.csv
Recap
- Statement, then Take it with you, has the three files; Preview shows a file's first rows before you download it.
- Statement CSV is for finance records. Once a bill is in, don't add up its cost column on its own.
- JSON is for scripts; FOCUS is for other FinOps tools.
- On your own machines, analyze writes the files straight into a folder.