Infracost
Cloud cost and FinOps policy platform that shows cost estimates and policy violations for infrastructure as code in IDEs, CLI, AI agents and pull requests.
At a Glance
About Infracost
Infracost, made by Infracost Inc, shifts cloud cost management into engineering workflows. It parses Terraform, CloudFormation and AWS CDK projects locally and shows cost estimates, FinOps policy violations and tagging issues across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud before deployment.
What It Is
Infracost is a cloud cost avoidance and FinOps governance platform that integrates with infrastructure as code workflows. Engineers see cost estimates in the CLI, IDE extensions, AI coding agents and CI/CD pull request comments, while FinOps teams configure policies, guardrails, price books and tagging policies in Infracost Cloud. The docs state that no cloud credentials or secrets are sent to the API and that Infracost does not change IaC state or cloud resources.
How the Workflow Runs
The vendor describes four steps: integrate, configure, optimize and report. Integration places cost estimates and best practices into local workflows and CI/CD. Configuration covers custom guardrails, price books and tagging policies. Optimization uses Issue Explorer to find waste in existing resources, and Infracost opens a pull request with fixes for review. Reporting measures time and money saved across teams.
Where You Use It
- CLI:
infracost scanreturns a resource cost breakdown, flagged policy violations and tagging issues. It can also estimate from Terraform plan JSON. - IDE: extensions show code lens cost estimates above resource blocks in VS Code, Cursor, JetBrains, Zed, Neovim and other editors.
- AI agents: agent skills for Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI let agents scan IaC, fix tagging violations and generate policy-compliant infrastructure within a budget.
- CI/CD: pull request comments show cost diffs and violations, with guides for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Azure DevOps.
Neovim Plugin
infracost.nvim is an Apache-2.0 Neovim plugin (Neovim 0.10+) that uses the infracost-ls language server. It provides inline code lens costs, hover breakdowns, diagnostics, code actions, a resource panel and OAuth login for Terraform and CloudFormation files.
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Pricing
CI/CD
Free tier of Infracost CI/CD with cost estimations for Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK
- Cost estimations for Terraform, CloudFormation, and CDK
- Integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps
- 1000 free runs per month
- Slack Community support
Starter
Best if you need more cost estimates
- Everything in CI/CD
- Email support
- 10,000 runs per month
Cloud
Best for teams with larger cloud spend and FinOps practitioners
- Everything in Starter
- 10 admin seats and developer seats available for additional fee
- FinOps policies and best practices
- Custom price book support
- Cost Guardrails
- Issue Explorer
- Autofix workflows
- Visibility dashboards
- Team management and workflows
- Audit trails
Enterprise
Best for enterprises with advanced security and compliance requirements
- Everything in Cloud
- Support for GitHub and GitLab Enterprise
- Complex security requirements
- SKU-level price overrides
- Reporting across business units
- Custom policies
- SSO & SAML Group Mappings
- Service level agreements
- Enterprise onboarding and support
Capabilities
Key Features
- Cloud cost estimates for Terraform, CloudFormation and AWS CDK
- FinOps policy and tagging policy checks
- Pull request cost diff comments
- IDE code lens cost estimates
- AI agent skills for cost-aware IaC generation
- Issue Explorer with auto-fix pull requests
- Custom guardrails and price books
- Savings reporting
- Terraform plan JSON support
Integrations
Demo Video
