Infracost
Prevent and remediate cloud waste by shifting FinOps left into the engineering workflow
By Infracost Inc · 4.0/5 verified-buyer score
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Platform engineering teams managing Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP
- FinOps practitioners who want cost policies and guardrails enforced inside CI/CD instead of dashboards alone
- Engineering organisations with delegated cloud budgets that need cost diffs reviewed alongside code
- Teams wanting a free starting point before committing to paid FinOps automation
Ideal size: 50–1,000 people · Scale-up with an IaC-driven platform or FinOps practice
Not for
- Organisations without infrastructure as code, where cloud resources are created by hand in the console
- Buyers looking for SaaS licence or non-cloud spend optimisation
- Companies that cannot change CI/CD pipelines or grant pipeline access
- Enterprises that need a self-hosted or air-gapped deployment, which is not offered on the published plans
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
Under a day (CI/CD setup ~15 min)
~1 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$12,000/yr
Starts at $0 · Free CI/CD tier with 1,000 runs/mo; Starter $250/mo (10,000 runs); Cloud $1,000/mo; Enterprise custom. Monthly plans with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Buyer Score
out of 5 · verified buyers
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Cloud plan includes 10 admin seats; developer seats are available for an additional fee
Add-on costs
- Developer seats beyond the 10 admin seats included in the Cloud plan
- Enterprise add-ons: SSO/SAML group mappings, custom policies, SKU-level price overrides, cross-business-unit reporting
Company & support
Who is behind Infracost, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- 2021 · 5 yrs in business
- Headquarters
- Not recorded
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailPaid plans
- Live chatEnterprise only
- Support portal / ticketsNot listed
- Community forumAll plans
- Help centre / docsAll plans
- Dedicated account managerNot listed
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Free plan includes the Slack community; Starter adds email support; Enterprise customers can set up a shared Slack Connect or Microsoft Teams channel with Infracost plus enterprise onboarding and support.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Infracost sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
The lines cross at the median of the solutions shown, so about half sit on each side of each line. A dashed ring marks an outlier pinned to the edge; hover for its value.
Companies on the chart 6 / 10
- Infracost
- ProsperOps
- Binadox
- Usage.ai
- Vantage
- Archera
Add or change companies
Up to 10 companies including Infracost. Listed closest first.
Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Infracost ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Infracost publishes Agent Skills that let AI coding agents (Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI) query cloud pricing and FinOps policies, scan IaC for cost and tagging violations, and generate compliant infrastructure. The home page also claims AI-assisted identification and remediation of cloud waste. No model-provisioning or AI audit details are published.
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Infracost shifts FinOps left by putting cloud cost estimates inside the engineering workflow. It parses Terraform, CloudFormation and AWS CDK to price AWS, Azure and GCP resources, then surfaces cost diffs, policy violations and tagging issues in pull requests, IDEs and CI/CD. A free CI/CD tier brings 1,000 runs a month and Slack community support; Starter ($250/mo) and Cloud ($1,000/mo) add email support, guardrails, campaigns and dashboards; Enterprise adds SSO, custom policies and SLAs. Founded 2021 by FinOps veterans.
Frequently asked questions
How is Infracost priced?
There is a free CI/CD tier with 1,000 runs per month and Slack community support. Starter is $250/month for 10,000 runs plus email support. Cloud is $1,000/month and adds FinOps policies, cost guardrails, issue explorer, autofix workflows, visibility dashboards, team management and audit trails, with 10 included admin seats. Enterprise pricing is quoted and adds GitHub/GitLab Enterprise support, custom policies, SSO and SAML group mappings, business-unit reporting and service level agreements. A 30-day money-back guarantee applies.
How quickly can we get value from Infracost?
Quickly. The CLI installs in minutes and the vendor states that adding Infracost to pull requests takes about 15 minutes. From that point every pull request receives an automatic cost diff, FinOps policy violations and tagging issues, so the first reviewed change already produces value.
Which clouds and infrastructure-as-code tools does Infracost support?
It prices resources on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, parsing Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, Azure ARM and Kubernetes. CI/CD integrations cover GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps, and IDE support spans VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Neovim, Zed and others, plus AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI.
Do we have to send cloud credentials or secrets to Infracost?
No. The documentation states that no cloud credentials or secrets are sent to the API and that Infracost does not make changes to IaC state or cloud resources. The project is parsed locally to determine the resource types and quantities needed to calculate costs.
What support is included at each tier?
The free tier relies on community Slack and the documentation. Starter adds email support via [email protected]. Enterprise customers can request a shared Slack Connect or Microsoft Teams channel with Infracost, and receive enterprise onboarding, support and service level agreements. Enterprise onboarding and support is listed on the Enterprise plan.
Is Infracost a good fit if we have not adopted infrastructure as code?
Less so. Infracost works by parsing IaC such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Azure ARM and Kubernetes manifests, and by commenting on pull requests. Teams that still create most cloud resources manually in the console get little value until their provisioning is codified.