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Infracost pricing
Infracost publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, Infracost pricing is free, then $250/month across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $250/month
- Model
- Free open source tool, then per month by run volume
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Infracost plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Starter | $250/month | 2 | +$250/month, 2 more features |
| Cloud | $1000/month | 4 | +$750/month, 4 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 1,000 runs a month, terraform, cloudformation and cdk estimates, community support.
Starter
$250/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- 10,000 runs a month
- Email support
Cloud
$1000/monthOver Starter, this tier adds:
- Ten admin seats, developer seats charged separately
- FinOps policies and cost guardrails
- Dashboards and audit trails
- Automated remediation
Enterprise
On requestOver Cloud, this tier adds:
- SKU-level price overrides for negotiated rates
- Business unit reporting
- SSO with SAML group mapping
- Service level agreements
Where Infracost stops being free
Free, Free
- 1,000 runs a month
- Terraform, CloudFormation and CDK estimates
- Community support
Starter, $250/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 10,000 runs a month
- Email support
What the product covers
The full Infracost feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Pull request cost diffs
- Multi-format parsing
- Apache-2.0 CLI
- FinOps policies
- Automated remediation
- IDE integration
People bring Infracost in for teams that want an expensive infrastructure change questioned at review rather than discovered on an invoice, platform groups enforcing tagging so cloud spend can be attributed to a team at all, organisations adopting finops practice without buying a full cloud management platform, engineers who want a cost figure in the editor while writing the terraform. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Infracost are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Too few cloud tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infracost (this page) | Free, then $250/month | Free open source tool, then per month by run volume | - | |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Infracost |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Infracost |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | - | vs Infracost |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Infracost |
| Qovery | On request | quote | - | vs Infracost |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Infracost |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Infracost badges page.
Before you pay for Infracost
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Infracost runs on web, macos, linux, windows, docker, and is published by Infracost Inc. of San Francisco, California, United States. The full record is on the Infracost review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Infracost pricing questions
- How much does Infracost cost?
- Infracost publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Infracost have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 1,000 runs a month, terraform, cloudformation and cdk estimates, community support. Paying starts at $250/month for Starter.
- What is the difference between Free and Starter on Infracost?
- Starter costs $250/month against Free, and adds 10,000 runs a month, email support.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Infracost worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is sku-level price overrides for negotiated rates, business unit reporting, sso with saml group mapping, service level agreements. It costs On request against $250/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Infracost have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.
- What am I actually paying for with Infracost?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for teams that want an expensive infrastructure change questioned at review rather than discovered on an invoice, platform groups enforcing tagging so cloud spend can be attributed to a team at all, organisations adopting finops practice without buying a full cloud management platform.
- Does Infracost charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Infracost prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Infracost against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Infracost covering price, platforms and features.