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Infracost Dev — Cloud cost awareness for your coding agent or IDE

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Introducing Infracost Dev Install in minutes and eliminate cloud waste from your IaC configurations — before you go to PR review. Get started free No credit card · 1,000+ services supported " We used to dedicate one person's time to updating GCP labels to match our tagging policies. With Infracost, we exceeded last year's labeling work in minutes. CA Chris Avila Staff DevOps Engineer @ EvolutionIQ " Our tagging backlog went to zero on day one. The efficiency gain was so steep it literally crashed our graph. JH Joe Hutchinson Head of Platform @ Vega Investments " Our software teams are shipping code at a breakneck pace. With Infracost, we're preventing 95% of new cost issues before deployment. SE Sr Staff Software Engineer Fortune 100 company Works with the tools you already use AI Coding Agents Claude Code GitHub Copilot OpenAI Codex Cursor Gemini CLI IDEs & Editors VS Code Cursor Windsurf JetBrains Antigravity VSCodium Eclipse Theia Neovim Infrastructure as Code Frameworks Terraform CloudFormation CDK What you get Cost intelligence wired into every IaC change Five capabilities that turn your agent or IDE into a cost-aware engineering partner. Coverage Supports 1,000+ services across all three clouds AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — every priced resource your IaC can deploy. Whether you're spinning up an EC2 fleet, a Cosmos DB instance, or a GKE cluster, Infracost Dev returns accurate, region-aware pricing in real time. No spreadsheets, no stale rate cards, no guessing at instance families. Region- and SKU-accurate pricing Updated continuously from cloud provider price feeds Terraform, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK > is a 3-tier app with a SQL db cheaper on AWS or GCP? AWS  ALB + ECS Fargate + RDS Postgres   $847/mo GCP  Load Balancer + Cloud Run + Cloud SQL  $612/mo Cloud Run scale-to-zero saves on idle compute.

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Caveat: AWS becomes cheaper above ~80% utilization. Inline reasoning Make cost tradeoffs without looking up a calculator Ask your agent "what if we move this workload to spot instances?" or "compare gp3 vs io2 for this volume" and get a real answer with real numbers — right in the chat. No tab-switching, no copy-pasting into a pricing calculator, no waiting for a FinOps review. Cost reasoning becomes part of how you write infrastructure. Natural-language cost queries against your live IaC Side-by-side resource comparisons Reasoning that respects budgets and constraints > can we hit <$400/mo on this 3-tier app? − instance_type = "m5.2xlarge" + instance_type = "m6g.large" m6g.large meets your performance budget at the target price. Free 14-day trial of Infracost Cloud included Provide best practices, include custom prices, and enforce FinOps policies in your coding agent, IDE, and CI/CD pipeline with a free trial of Infracost Cloud. Best practices FinOps practices from each cloud's Well-Architected Framework Infracost Dev applies the cost optimization pillar of AWS, Azure, and GCP's Well-Architected Frameworks automatically. The same guidance your cloud architect would surface in a review — applied during the write step, not after deployment. Right-sizing and instance family recommendations Storage tier and lifecycle policy guidance Reserved capacity and savings plan signals > set up an S3 bucket for our access logs   access logs are write-heavy and rarely re-read   a lifecycle rule moves them to Glacier after 90d At your projected ingestion (~2 TB/mo), this saves $312/mo by year one. Want me to include the lifecycle rule? AutoFix Fix tagging issues in seconds instead of months Tagging compliance is the FinOps backlog that never gets done — until your agent does it. Infracost Dev reads your tagging policy, scans your IaC, and proposes a single PR that fixes every violation across the repo. Months of cleanup, condensed to one merge.

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Detects missing, malformed, and inconsistent tags Propagates required tags through modules One PR per repo — review and merge 31resource "aws_lambda_function" "api" { 32  function_name = "acme-api" 33  runtime       = "nodejs20.x" +34  tags = { +35    Owner      = "platform-team" +36    CostCenter = "eng-1042" +37  } 34 resources fixed in one PR All resources now match your tagging policy. Ready to open a single PR for the whole repo. Enterprise Integrate custom prices and policies Bring your enterprise discount program (EDP) rates, private pricing agreements, and internal FinOps policies. Infracost Dev applies them everywhere — in your agent's reasoning, in IDE code lenses, and in PR comments — so the cost numbers your developers see match the costs your finance team actually pays. Custom price books for negotiated rates Org-specific tagging and cost guardrails Centrally managed, locally enforced > scaffold the new analytics pipeline I described EKS + Kafka + Redshift   $6,240/mo guardrail   $5,000 This stack exceeds your team's $5K/mo budget by $1,240. I can swap Redshift for BigQuery + scale Kafka to 2 brokers — same throughput, $4,680/mo. Get started Two ways to roll out Infracost Dev Install it on your own machine in five minutes, or talk to us about deploying it across your team. Set it up for yourself Install the AI agent skill or IDE extension and get cost-aware IaC in your local workflow. Free to try, no credit card. Read the docs Set it up for your team Roll out custom price books, FinOps policies, tagging standards, and more across every developer and repo in your org. Contact us