FinOps maturity assessment
Most teams overestimate their maturity in the areas they talk about and underestimate the gaps nobody owns. Answer for how things actually work today, not how the policy says they should. If you're not sure, pick the first option: a capability nobody can describe isn't in place.
- ~10 minutes
- 20 core questions + 4 optional on AI spend
- Shareable result link
- Your answers stay on your device
Answer the remaining 20 core questions to see your score. The AI section is optional.
Your FinOps maturity
Your three highest-impact next moves
Your lowest answers. Where answers tie, the more foundational one comes first: allocation and visibility underpin everything that follows.
A self-assessment tells you where to look. Your bill tells you what it's worth. The FinOps Agent reads your real Azure, AWS or Google Cloud cost data and calculates the same 0–100 score from what it finds. It prices every finding, so "commitments: Crawl" comes with the monthly saving attached. It runs read-only in your own environment.
See what the FinOps Agent measuresHow the scoring works
Each core question has four answers, worth 0 to 3 points: not in place, Crawl, Walk and Run. A domain's score is its points as a percentage of the maximum (15). Your overall score is the plain average of the four domain scores, with no hidden weighting, so you can check it by hand.
The bands are Run at 70 or above, Walk from 40 to 69, and Crawl below 40. They are the same thresholds as the computed maturity score in the CloudFinOpsKit report, so a self-assessed 55 and a measured 55 mean the same thing. The optional FinOps for AI questions are scored separately. Mixing them into the overall would make scores from teams with and without AI spend impossible to compare.
What the four domains cover
- Understand usage & cost: getting billing data flowing, allocating it to owners, enforcing tags, showing teams their spend and catching anomalies.
- Quantify business value: forecasting, budgets, unit economics, showback and chargeback, and estimating before you build.
- Optimize usage & cost: clearing idle and orphaned waste, rightsizing, commitment discounts, scheduling non-production, and making cost part of architecture.
- Manage the FinOps practice: ownership, review cadence, policy guardrails, engineering enablement and KPIs.
The domains follow the FinOps Framework, and the stages use the Crawl, Walk, Run maturity model, both published by the FinOps Foundation. The questions, answer ladders and scoring on this page are our own. This is an independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by the FinOps Foundation.
Two things to be straight about
Run is not the goal everywhere. The maturity model applies per capability, and the right level for each depends on the value it brings you. A small, stable estate can be well run at Walk. Chasing Run in something that barely moves your bill is a cost too.
Self-assessments run optimistic. People answer with the process they designed, not the one that survived contact with a deadline. The best check is to test your answers against your real bill. If you picked Run for commitments but coverage is 40%, the bill wins. Re-assess every quarter. How your score moves over time is worth more than the number itself.
FAQ
What is the FinOps maturity model?
The FinOps Foundation describes maturity in three stages. Crawl is reactive and manual, with limited visibility. Walk means the core processes exist and are repeated. Run means they are automated, measured against targets and built into decisions. Maturity is assessed per capability, not for the organisation as a whole.
What is a good FinOps maturity score?
It depends on how much you spend and how fast it changes. An organisation spending millions a month, or growing quickly, usually needs Run in allocation, anomaly management and commitments, because gaps there cost the most. The comparison that matters is your own score this quarter against last quarter.
Is this an official FinOps Foundation assessment?
No. It's an independent self-assessment that follows the Framework's domains and the Crawl, Walk, Run model. The FinOps Foundation publishes its own assessment guidance at finops.org.
Related: the cloud cost governance framework · building a Cloud Center of Excellence · FinOps for AI: the complete framework · cloud cost savings calculator