Infracost offers real-time cost estimation tailored for developers using Kubernetes, empowering teams to make informed financial decisions during the development process.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Infracost | 0.2% |
| Finimize Daily News API | 0.3% |
| Genesis VNA | 0.3% |
| Other | 99.2% |
Infracost delivers comprehensive insights into cloud costs, tailored to developers. By providing precise breakdowns of expenses in Kubernetes environments, Infracost aids in financial planning, reducing the risk of unexpected charges. This fosters a culture of cost-awareness and accountability within tech teams, enabling better management and efficient allocation of cloud resources.
What are the key features of Infracost?In software development industries, Infracost can transform how teams approach budgeting for cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes. Developers gain visibility into costs, making deployment strategies more financially sound. This aligns project goals with budget limitations and optimizes resource usage, fostering innovation without financial surprises.
| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| DevOps Consultant at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees | 4.0 | I use Infracost with Terraform to pre-align costs, gaining autonomy and security. Its visual dashboard aids in significant cost savings before deployment, though I wish for better native cloud integration and clearer free tier features, despite its stability and good ROI. |
| SRE II at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees | 4.0 | I use Infracost in CI/CD for cost analysis, showing precise financial impact in pull requests. This boosts cost consciousness and saves money. While processing speed and UI need improvement, it's stable and offers great ROI. |
| Devops Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees | 3.5 | I use Infracost with Terraform to check infrastructure cost impact on AWS, saving around $500 by identifying unnecessary elements. It directly shows cost increases, though I feel its processing and UI could be enhanced. |
I use Infracost in all my projects. A specific example of how I use Infracost in my projects is that I need to create infrastructure as code using Terraform and then I connect Infracost in the project to all people in the project and all stakeholders to know what the cost is for each resource in the environment.
Infracost is a simple application but very helpful because we can know what we can save in cost before implementation.
Infracost has positively impacted our organization because we can have more autonomy and we can pre-align with any person in the project. It provides more security and we can know what the costs will be.
When I say we have more autonomy and security, I mean that when we have some modules on Terraform, we can know what the cost of a resource or feature in the project will be, and then we can decide to decline or accept each resource type.
The best feature Infracost offers is that the dashboard is very helpful because it is more visual to all stakeholders.
I appreciate that I can configure a breakdown on pipelines after applying the form and all dashboards are very clear to know what the cost will be for each resource and how we can promote each environment.
I think Infracost can be improved by connecting native and cloud practices; we could use some tools according to each cloud, but as a service, Infracost is very helpful. However, in this case, we need to connect and then use it as a local tool or utilize some features, which I think have a ramp-up that is harder.
I think some parts of the free account can be more user-friendly. It is not so difficult or hard, but in some cases, it needs some time to connect.
I have been using Infracost for up to six years.
In my experience, Infracost is stable.
Infracost's scalability is good; it is a simple application, and I am not facing any lack of performance or issues during usage.
When I use Infracost, I am not facing any problems that require requesting customer support.
I previously used CloudFormation to know what the cost would be, and I switched to Infracost because CloudFormation has vendor lock-in on AWS. Infracost allows us to use it in multiple clouds.
I have seen a return on investment because with Infracost, we can know what the cost will be for each project, and then we can separate data for creation. We can use strategies such as creating low environments, and then after use, we can delete each resource during business hours to save money. It is very helpful.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I need to create each resource using the tools as I promote. In many cases, I use Terraform free locally and then Infracost locally in the free tier.
Before choosing Infracost, I did not evaluate other options; I am aware of other options such as Apptio, but I have been using Infracost many times.
I would rate Infracost overall an eight out of ten.
I chose eight out of ten because some tools are not very clear. As a best application, it gives us much flexibility, autonomy, and security because we know what the cost will be for each resource, but in some cases, it is not very clear. For instance, when comparing with CloudFormation on AWS, we have the specific value. In some cases, when we use Infracost to know what the cost will be, we need to separate a technical reserve.
Regarding Infracost's AI capabilities, I am not using much of its AI capabilities because it is only an on-premises application, a local application, but we can commit to a repository to know what the cost will be and share the application API key for stakeholders and other managers on the project. I do not have much experience in this area because it is recent.
In my opinion, Infracost's AI capabilities are more accurate because it has been on the market for a long time, and over time, Infracost will be improved because many more people are using it. However, I think the AI capabilities are much more useful in the paid part, not in the free.
I have used Infracost mostly in public cloud and private cloud, and the cloud provider I use most often with Infracost is AWS.
My advice to others looking into using Infracost is that it is a simple application, and we can use a very helpful free tier. However, I think the maintenance of the application could improve some features of the free tier, but I have not encountered any issues.
My main use case for Infracost is tracking and analyzing the cost impact of infrastructure changes before they are actually provisioned. This manages the entire multi-cloud infrastructure that we are setting up with Terraform, and we integrate Infracost into our CI/CD. Every time a person opens a pull request, we can see the finance changes related to this pull request in terms of the infrastructure setup required.
I can give you a specific example of how this works in my workflow: there were cases when people submitted some EC2 instance change, such as increasing it when there was no real need, and just due to checking costs via Infracost and our CI/CD, we were able to identify that we do not actually need it.
The best features Infracost offers include shift-left visibility, so we see the impact before it actually happens, and we do not manually consult with cloud pricing each time, and we do not guess. We have precise information instead. It pulls the pricing difference and drops it in the code review interface.
Having that precise information in the code review interface makes us question the changes.
Infracost has positively impacted my organization by enhancing our engineering team's cost consciousness. We no longer treat the FinOps operations as something that we do at the end of the month. We do this regularly and this changes a lot for us, so this is super important.
I would appreciate some improvements in terms of processing speed, and I would be happy to see a slightly better user interface from my perspective, but everything else is excellent.
I have been using Infracost for around two years.
Infracost is stable.
Infracost's scalability is great.
The customer support is great.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is straightforward and excellent.
I have seen a return on investment through money saved.
The customer support is great.
My advice to others looking into using Infracost is to try it, as it is a really great technology. I would rate this review at eight out of ten.
My main use case for Infracost is checking the cost impact as my infrastructure would be increasing if I add a particular element. I use Terraform for managing my infrastructure, and whenever I make changes to that code structure, Infracost helps me understand what the increase in cost or impact on cost would be.
A specific example of when I used Infracost with Terraform to check the cost impact of a change was recently when I added a service hosted on EC2 servers along with load balancers and other AWS architecture. After adding it to my Terraform codebase, Infracost helped me identify the cost increase.
The best features Infracost offers include the fact that the increase in cost is directly provided by the tool, and I do not have to manually calculate what all costs would increase when adding a service or making a particular change to my Terraform code.
The way Infracost calculates and displays the cost impact helps me in my day-to-day work because, as a DevOps engineer, I work extensively with automations and building infrastructure through them. Infracost helps me identify and analyze the cost increase from adding particular infrastructure.
Infracost has positively impacted my organization by helping me reduce my infrastructure cost and review expenses, and I am able to remove all unnecessary infrastructure. I was able to save around $500.
Infracost could be improved in terms of processing and the user interface, as there are times that these aspects could be enhanced.
I have been using Infracost for a while now.
Infracost is stable.
Infracost's scalability is good; however, I have not explored much about it, so I cannot provide exact details.
The customer support is adequate.
Negative
I have seen a return on investment, as I have saved money.
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been great.
My advice to others looking into using Infracost is that this is a great tool and it can help with pricing decisions about AWS infrastructure or any other infrastructure that can be managed by infrastructure as code. I would rate this product a seven out of ten.
