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Dev tools · February 17, 2021

Infracost

Open source cloud cost estimator in pull requests

Infracost launched on February 17, 2021 with 101 votes, #363 of 3,133 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

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What it does

Infracost is an open source cloud cost estimator in pull requests. When you change your infrastructure code (Terraform), we post a comment in the pull request, telling you the impact to your cloud bill, e.g. “this will increase your bill by 25% next month”.

FinOps governance for platform teams. Prevent cloud waste and budget overruns before every deploy.

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  • Infracost (YC W21) – Open-source cloud cost policies2022 · github.com · ▲121

    Hi, we’re Ali, Hassan and Alistair, co-founders of Infracost (https://www.infracost.io/). Infracost shows engineers the cost of each Terraform change in CI/CD before resources are launched. When something changes, it posts a comment with the cloud cost impact. e.g. you’ve added 2 instances and volumes, and have changed an instance type from medium to large, this will increase your bill by 25% next month from $1000 to $1250 per month. We launched the first version of Infracost just under a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588). As we said…

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    Infracost (YC W21): Be proactive with your cloud costs2023 · ▲86

    Hi, we are Ali, Hassan, and Alistair, co-founders of Infracost (https://www.infracost.io/). Infracost helps engineers see the cost of each Terraform change before launching resources. When changes are made, it posts a comment with the cloud cost impact. For example, “you’ve added 2 instances and volumes, and change an instance type from medium to large, your bill will increase by 25% next month, from $1000 to $1250 per month”. We launched in February 2021 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588), and Infracost is now being actively used by over 3,000…

  • See the carbon impact of your cloud as you codeJan 2026 · dashboard.infracost.io · ▲67

    Hey folks, I’m Hassan, one of the co-founders of Infracost (https://www.infracost.io). Infracost helps engineers see and reduce the cloud cost of each infrastructure change before they merge their code. The way Infracost works is we gather pricing data from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. What we call a ‘Pricing Service’, which now holds around 9 million live price points (!!). Then we map these prices to infrastructure code. Once the mapping is done, it enables us to show the cost impact of a code change before it is merged, directly in GitHub, GitLab etc.…

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    See the impact on your cloud costs as you code2024 · ▲179

    Hey folks, my name is Owen and I recently started working at a startup (https://infracost.io/) that shows engineers how much their code changes are going to cost on the cloud before being deployed (in CI/CD like GitHub or GitLab). Previously, I was one of the founders of tfsec (it scanned code for security issues). One of the things I learnt was if we catch issues early, i.e. when the engineer was typing their code, we save a bunch of time. I was thinking … okay, why not build cloud costs into the code editor. Show the cloud cost impact of the code as the engineers are…

  • Infracost VSCode Extension2022 · github.com · ▲78

    See cost estimates for Terraform right in your editor

  • I'm building a cloud cost tool for Terraform2020 · github.com · ▲10

    Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests💰📉 Love your cloud bill! - aliscott/infracost

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