# Standard CSV export

The Standard CSV export gives you the **raw cost data** that drives every chart in Finora. Use it for finance reconciliation, custom analysis in Excel or Google Sheets, or pushing data into your own data warehouse.

> **Plan requirement.** Standard CSV exports are available on **Growth** and above.

## What's in the file

One row per cost event. Columns:

| Column         | Notes                                                                        |
| -------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `id`           | A unique identifier for the cost event                                       |
| `timestamp`    | Date and time of the cost (per-day for most providers, per-event for Cursor) |
| `provider`     | `openai`, `anthropic`, `aws`, `azure`, `gcp`, or `cursor`                    |
| `modelId`      | Model or SKU identifier as returned by the provider                          |
| `amount`       | Cost in USD, two-decimal precision                                           |
| `inputTokens`  | Tokens consumed (where the provider exposes this)                            |
| `outputTokens` | Tokens generated (where the provider exposes this)                           |
| `requestCount` | Number of requests (where the provider exposes this)                         |
| `tags`         | Comma-separated `category:value` pairs                                       |
| `accountLabel` | For GCP multi-account setups; empty otherwise                                |

The file is UTF-8 with a leading byte-order mark, so Excel detects the encoding correctly on Windows.

## How to export

### From the Overview page

1. Open **Overview**.
2. Set the timeframe and any provider/tag filters you want included.
3. Click **Export** (top right) → **CSV (Standard)**.

The file downloads immediately. Filename: `finora-costs-<timeframe>-<timestamp>.csv`.

### From the Reports page

1. Open **Reports → + New report**.
2. Set **Format** to **CSV (Standard)**.
3. Configure your timeframe and provider scope.
4. Click **Generate**.

Both paths produce the same file. Generating from Reports also lets you set up scheduled exports if you're on the Scale plan or above.

## How the file is generated

The file streams directly from Finora to your browser as it's built — nothing is buffered server-side first. That means:

* There's no row-count cap. You can export a full year of high-volume data in one go.
* The browser shows a download progress bar for big exports.
* You can open it in any tool that reads CSV.

## Common uses

* **Finance reconciliation** — match line items against your Stripe or corporate-card statements
* **Slicing in Excel or Google Sheets** — pivot tables by tag combinations the dashboard doesn't pre-render
* **Loading into a warehouse** — Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or your favorite database
* **Audit snapshots** — keep a monthly export as a record for compliance

## Limits & quotas

| Plan       | CSV exports   |
| ---------- | ------------- |
| Trial      | not available |
| Growth     | unlimited     |
| Scale      | unlimited     |
| Enterprise | unlimited     |

There's no per-export size cap.

## Standard CSV vs. FOCUS CSV

If you're feeding a FinOps tool that understands the [FOCUS](https://focus.finops.org/) standard (Cloudability, CloudZero, Finout, Vantage, etc.), use [FOCUS 1.1 CSV](/exports/focus-csv.md) instead. The Standard export is for free-form analysis and finance work that doesn't need a normalized cross-vendor schema.


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