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v0.5.3 — Reframe: The FinOps MCP server

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@alialbaker alialbaker released this 09 May 09:34
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v0.5.3 — Positioning: The FinOps MCP server

No code changes. Pure positioning + metadata update.

What changed

  • README now leads with "The FinOps MCP server" instead of "MCP server that compares cloud pricing." Same product — sharper framing.
  • Replaced the "Ask things like" examples with four concrete FinOps decision queries:
    1. Reserved Instance break-even on 6× t3.2xlarge — what does the AI call, what payback period comes back
    2. 5 TB cold-storage migration with exit-egress + payback period
    3. 50 TB/month egress arbitrage — OCI's 12× moat
    4. Full 3-tier SaaS workload — chains 4 tools (compare_workload + compare_egress + multi-AZ + commitment)
  • PyPI metadata:
    • description now leads with FinOps decision-making
    • keywords expanded from 7 generic terms to 14 targeted ones (finops, cost, tco, oci, reserved-instances, savings-plan, claude, copilot, cursor) — improves PyPI search ranking on FinOps-adjacent queries

Why this is its own release

Same code, but the PyPI listing is the first thing FinOps practitioners see when they search. Aligning the description + keywords with the audience matters for organic discovery via PyPI search — and it makes the Glama "Finance" categorization consistent across our owned channels.

Upgrade

No reason to upgrade if you're on v0.5.2 — there are no behavior changes. v0.5.3 is purely for new users discovering cloudprice-mcp through PyPI search.

pip install --upgrade cloudprice-mcp   # picks up new description in `pip show`

Background

The FinOps reframe was driven by real-world usage: two queries today through Claude / Copilot via the MCP layer produced (a) a Reserved Instance break-even analysis with month-by-month payback math, and (b) a "don't move this storage" recommendation with a 35-month payback that killed a bad migration before it started. That's FinOps work — not just price lookups. We're naming the product accordingly.

Coming in v0.6 as a follow-up: dedicated FinOps decision tools (assess_migration, optimize_commitment, compare_total_cost_of_ownership, find_egress_arbitrage) that bake the analysis primitives into single-call tools instead of leaving them to AI chaining.

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