# State of FinOps 2026

**Source:** FinOps Foundation · **Published:** Jan 1, 2026 · **Format:** Survey data · **Category:** Market data
**Measures:** Adoption, Cost

The Foundation's annual benchmarking survey on FinOps maturity, now extending into AI spend management and governance. A useful adoption baseline to read against the AI-specific surveys elsewhere in this index, since it is measuring a practitioner population rather than a vendor-selected one.

**Useful for:** Grounding a deck, Building methodology

Source: https://data.finops.org/