IFO4
Loading...Six research pillars. Assembled daily. Intelligence nobody else produces.
“Every price, every provider, every day”
“The true cost of artificial intelligence”
“What could go wrong, before it does”
“Public company Financial Operations maturity”
“How the public sector spends on cloud”
“The people side of Financial Operations”
| Gartner | FinOps Foundation | IFO4 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Update frequency | Quarterly | Annual | Daily |
| Data sources | Surveys | 1 survey/year | 84 live sources |
| Cost to access | $30K/yr | Free (1 PDF) | Free tier + Pro |
| Vendor neutral | ❌ (sponsors) | ❌ (sponsors) | ✅ Zero sponsors |
| Enforcement tied | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Ring Methodology |
| Real-time signals | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Signal feed |
| Price tracking | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Daily across 3 CSPs |
| GPU/LLM pricing | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ 12 GPU + 19 LLM providers |
| Blockchain verified | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Ethereum anchored |
12 proprietary indices. Updated daily. The numbers that define the state of Financial Operations.
Intelligence nobody else produces. Every source verified, every signal weighted, every index blockchain-anchored.
Cloud, GPU, and LLM costs tracked and compared across all major providers - updated every day.
Cloud provider incidents detected and cost-impact estimated before they hit your invoice.
Proprietary indices measuring cloud economics, AI costs, waste, risk, governance, and market trends.
Machine learning models that predict price movements and vendor behavior before they happen.
The world's only dataset on Financial Operations governance maturity - growing with every assessment.
Raw data assembled into actionable intelligence: what happened, what it means, what to do, what it means for YOUR industry.
The data that defines Financial Operations. Free to start. Unmatched at any price.