# Infracost vs ProsperOps

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/infracost-vs-prosperops/

Every value below is read from Infracost's and ProsperOps's own documentation. See https://inetgeek.com/methodology/ for how.

## At a glance

| Criterion | Infracost | ProsperOps |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind of free offer | Free tier | Free tier |
| What the free plan includes | 1,000 runs a month, with GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps integrations and Slack community support. | A savings analysis benchmarking you against industry peers, offered at no charge. There is no ongoing free product behind it — the paid model simply has no fee until savings exist. |
| Entry paid plan | $250 a month for Starter, which raises the allowance to 10,000 runs. Cloud is $1,000 a month with 10 admin seats. | No monthly fee to quote. Rate optimisation is billed purely as a share of realised savings, so the floor is zero until it saves something; the workload product adds a flat fee per managed resource. |
| Pricing model | Runs per month. A run is one cost estimate against Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK in your pipeline, so the meter tracks how often you ask rather than how much you spend or save — 1,000 free, 10,000 at $250 a month. | A share of the savings, not of the spend. ProsperOps takes a percentage of savings actually realised as determined by your provider's billing system — the page is explicit that this is not a percentage of cloud spend. Its workload product charges separately: a flat fee per managed resource per month. |

## Where they differ

### What the free plan includes

- Infracost: 1,000 runs a month, with GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps integrations and Slack community support. ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/))
- ProsperOps: A savings analysis benchmarking you against industry peers, offered at no charge. There is no ongoing free product behind it — the paid model simply has no fee until savings exist. ([source](https://www.prosperops.com/pricing/))

### Entry paid plan

- Infracost: $250 a month for Starter, which raises the allowance to 10,000 runs. Cloud is $1,000 a month with 10 admin seats. ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/))
- ProsperOps: No monthly fee to quote. Rate optimisation is billed purely as a share of realised savings, so the floor is zero until it saves something; the workload product adds a flat fee per managed resource. ([source](https://www.prosperops.com/pricing/))

### Pricing model

- Infracost: Runs per month. A run is one cost estimate against Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK in your pipeline, so the meter tracks how often you ask rather than how much you spend or save — 1,000 free, 10,000 at $250 a month. ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/))
- ProsperOps: A share of the savings, not of the spend. ProsperOps takes a percentage of savings actually realised as determined by your provider's billing system — the page is explicit that this is not a percentage of cloud spend. Its workload product charges separately: a flat fee per managed resource per month. ([source](https://www.prosperops.com/pricing/))

## Which should you choose?

Pick Infracost if Catching cost before it is spent. It runs in the pipeline against Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK, so the estimate lands in the pull request rather than in next month's invoice, and 1,000 runs a month are free.

Pick ProsperOps if Wanting the incentive pointed the same way as yours. The fee is a share of savings actually realised, measured by your provider's billing system rather than by ProsperOps — so a month that saves nothing costs nothing, which is true of nothing else in this category.

Consider something else: Infracost — You want the bill watched rather than the plan. The meter is runs, so it charges by how often you ask and not by what you spend or save — and support is a Slack community until $250 a month, where Vantage answers email on a free plan.

Consider something else: ProsperOps — You need to forecast the cost of the tool, or you want the tool to be a report. The percentage is never stated — "a small percentage" is the whole disclosure — and the workload product adds an unquantified flat fee per managed resource. There is no monthly price to compare.

## Documented by only one

- Free tier: Infracost: Yes
- When you exceed a cap: ProsperOps: There is no overage, because there is no allowance. The fee is a share of what was saved, so a month with no realised savings carries no rate-optimisation charge.
- Build allowance: Infracost: 10,000 runs a month on Starter against 1,000 free — a tenfold allowance for $250, where a run is one estimate in one pipeline execution.
- Support on entry paid plan: Infracost: Slack community support on the free tier; email support starts at $250 a month.

## Questions this comparison answers

**Entry paid plan: Infracost or ProsperOps?**

Infracost: $250 a month for Starter, which raises the allowance to 10,000 runs. Cloud is $1,000 a month with 10 admin seats.
ProsperOps: No monthly fee to quote. Rate optimisation is billed purely as a share of realised savings, so the floor is zero until it saves something; the workload product adds a flat fee per managed resource.

**Should I choose Infracost or ProsperOps?**

Pick Infracost if Catching cost before it is spent. It runs in the pipeline against Terraform, CloudFormation or CDK, so the estimate lands in the pull request rather than in next month's invoice, and 1,000 runs a month are free.
Pick ProsperOps if Wanting the incentive pointed the same way as yours. The fee is a share of savings actually realised, measured by your provider's billing system rather than by ProsperOps — so a month that saves nothing costs nothing, which is true of nothing else in this category.