Infracost is a cloud cost estimator that integrates directly into GitHub and GitLab, providing developers with real-time cost estimates for code changes before deployment. It ensures compliance with budget constraints and FinOps best practices by automating approval workflows and enforcing tagging policies, helping teams manage cloud expenses effectively.
Funding
$2.3M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Cloud infrastructure costs are often unpredictable, and developers lack visibility into the financial impact of their code changes before deployment. This can lead to budget overruns, inefficient resource utilization, and difficulty in enforcing FinOps best practices.
Solution
Infracost provides developers with real-time cost estimates for infrastructure-as-code (IaC) changes directly within their existing workflows. By integrating with GitHub, GitLab, and Jira, Infracost analyzes Terraform plans and other IaC configurations to identify potential cost increases or savings before resources are provisioned. The platform automates FinOps policies by checking code changes against predefined budgets and tagging requirements, triggering approval workflows when necessary. This proactive approach enables engineering teams to optimize cloud spending, enforce cost governance, and foster a cost-aware engineering culture.
Target Audience
Infracost targets engineering teams, DevOps professionals, and FinOps practitioners who use infrastructure-as-code to manage cloud resources and need to control and optimize cloud spending.
Features
- Integration with GitHub and GitLab to display cost estimates directly in pull requests and merge requests
- Support for Terraform, Kubernetes, and other infrastructure-as-code formats
- Real-time cost analysis based on cloud provider pricing data, including custom enterprise pricing
- Automated checks for tagging compliance and FinOps best practices
- Budget enforcement with customizable approval workflows for cost-exceeding changes
- Integration with Jira for product management and cost tracking
- Daily export of raw cost data for integration with existing FinOps and business intelligence dashboards
- Support for Enterprise Discount Programs (EDPs) and Enterprise Agreements (EAs)