# Infracost

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/finops/infracost/

A cost estimator that runs in CI against Terraform and CloudFormation, billed by how many times it runs rather than by what it finds.

## Who it suits

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.

Consider something else if 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.

## iScore

89 / 100 (80% interval 85–92), rank 2 of 3 in finops — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every finops peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/finops/infracost/alternatives/

- Price: 79 (73–85), weight 50%, 3 of 3 criteria scored
- Trust and compliance: 100 (94–100), weight 30%, 0 of 1 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: sso_saml
- Evidence: 95 (95–95), weight 20%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/), read 2026-09-16)
- Kind of free offer: Free tier ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/), read 2026-09-16)
- What the free plan includes: 1,000 runs a month, with GitHub, GitLab and Azure DevOps integrations and Slack community support. ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/), read 2026-09-16)
- 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. ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/), read 2026-09-16)
- 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. ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/), read 2026-09-16)

### Limits

- Build allowance: 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. ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/), read 2026-09-16)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: Slack community support on the free tier; email support starts at $250 a month. ([source](https://www.infracost.io/pricing/), read 2026-09-16)

## Compared with

- [Infracost vs Vantage](https://inetgeek.com/compare/vantage-vs-infracost/)
- [Infracost vs ProsperOps](https://inetgeek.com/compare/infracost-vs-prosperops/)