See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code
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.…
See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code launched on January 21, 2026 with 67 votes, #495 of 14,584 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
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Infracost is a development tool that shows engineers the cost and carbon impact of cloud infrastructure changes before code is merged. It pulls pricing data from AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud—covering millions of price points—and maps them to infrastructure code. Teams can view cost and environmental impacts directly in GitHub, GitLab, and other platforms, helping them make informed decisions about infrastructure changes before deployment.
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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…
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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…
- IYInfracost (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…
Infracost (YC W21) – Open-source cloud cost policies2022 · github.com · ▲121Hi, 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…
Infracost VSCode Extension2022 · github.com · ▲78See cost estimates for Terraform right in your editor
Infracost diff – “Git diff” but for cloud costs2021 · github.com · ▲16Cloud cost intelligence for engineers, AI coding agents, and CI/CD 💰📉 Shift FinOps Left! - infracost/infracost
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