cloud-pricing-api VS infracost

u/ErikHumphrey yep, by default Infracost connects to our hosted Cloud Pricing API but you can self-host that part (which fetches the 3M+ prices from AWS+Azure+Google and self-updates), see https://www.infracost.io/docs/cloud_pricing_api/self_hosted/ and the "DISABLE_TELEMETRY" env variable that is mentioned in https://github.com/infracost/cloud-pricing-api

Infracost has two versions: a VSCode addon and a command line program. Both do the same thing: parse Terraform code, pull the current cost price points from a cloud pricing API, and output an estimate.

The complexity is crazy for sure. Around 10 years ago I started looking at cloud costs as part of my PhD - back then there were around 10,000 price points that I was scraping manually, today there are more than 3 million prices between AWS, Azure and Google that we're fetching in https://github.com/infracost/cloud-pricing-api

yup, checkout this example. Happy to help with the other filters you might need, I spend a lot of time exploring pricing params

‍Infracost is a cost estimation tool that generates cost estimates for Terraform projects, which is crucial for budget planning and cost optimization, especially in cloud environments where resource costs can vary significantly.

Infracost is a tool that provides cloud cost estimates for infrastructure managed by Terraform. It enables engineers to view and understand the financial impact of their infrastructure changes before they are applied. Infracost integrates directly into the workflow, offering cost breakdowns in various environments like the terminal, Visual Studio Code, or directly within pull requests. This feature allows for more informed decision-making regarding infrastructure modifications, promoting cost-awareness and budget management in the early stages of development. Infracost is particularly useful for teams looking to balance cloud resource utilization with budget constraints. Infracost Cloud is their SaaS product that builds on top of Infracost open source and works with CI/CD integrations. It gives team leads, managers and FinOps practitioners dashboards, guardrails, centralized cost policies and Jira integration so they can help guide the team (e.g. switch AWS GP2 volumes to GP3).

Inevitable end for every open source company since the free money ended. What bothers me is that wording is vague enough.

> HashiCorp considers a competitive offering to be a product or service provided to users or customers outside of your organization that has significant overlap with the capabilities of HashiCorp’s commercial products or services.

So, consider there is no cost estimate service and you built a thing that got popular (https://github.com/infracost/infracost). Then after 2 years Terraform Cloud catches up. What happens? Are you out of business?

I've started to work on Carbonifer, a tool that can estimate carbon emissions before deploying an infrastructure. A bit like infracost, this reads Terraform files and estimates carbon emissions if this plan is applied.

Infracost is an open-source project that helps us understand how and where we’re spending our money. It gives a detailed breakdown of actual infrastructure costs and calculates how changes impact them. Basically, Infracost is a git diff for billing.

Infracost: Estimativas de custos nos Pull Requests.

There is some discussion on the infracost issue tracker where it looks like this specific error is more common with tgenv

Cost:Infracost (estimation): https://github.com/infracost/infracostTerratag (tagging): https://github.com/env0/terratag (disclaimer, I am CEO at env0)

I use https://infracost.io 🤗