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Infracost Pricing

freemiumopen source · Apache-2.0last verified September 6, 2026official site ↗

At a glance

Infracost Community CLI is 100% free and open source under Apache-2.0 (12.5k+ GitHub stars) offering unlimited local and CI/CD PR cost diff estimations across Terraform, OpenTofu, and Terragrunt. Infracost Cloud (Pro/Enterprise starting from ~$250/mo or custom annual plans) provides centralized FinOps governance, policy-as-code guardrails (budget caps, ARM Graviton recommendations, tagging enforcement), custom enterprise cloud price books, SAML SSO, Jira/Slack alerts, and SOC 2 Type II compliance.

Self-hosting cost

Infracost is open source under the Apache-2.0 license. Self-hosting does not add a software license fee, but you still pay for infrastructure, operations, and any external model or API usage. Any hosted, managed, or API plans remain separately priced.

Free & cheaper FinOps & Cost Management

same category, free plan or open-source license

Ciliumopen sourceFree and 100% open source under the Apache-2.0 license (with dual GPL-2.0/BSD-2-Clause BPF datapath templates) as a CNCF Graduated project. Cilium has no software licensing fees for self-hosted or cloud Kubernetes deployments (including GKE Dataplane V2 and Azure CNI Powered by Cilium); organizations pay only for their compute infrastructure. For mission-critical enterprise environments, Isovalent Enterprise for Cilium (by Cisco) provides quote-based annual subscriptions (per-node/environment) with 24/7 SLA support, hardened LTS builds, Customer Testing Environments (CuTEs), enterprise BGP/EVPN, and advanced multi-cluster security and observability retention.OrbStackFree for personal and non-commercial use, educational studies, and open-source development. Commercial and business use (or individuals generating >$10,000/year) requires a paid Pro license at $8/user/month billed annually ($96/year) or $10/month monthly, covering up to 5 devices per user with priority support and a 30-day trial. Enterprise plans provide custom volume pricing, centralized billing, MDM/SSO directory integration, and 99.9% uptime SLAs.Rayopen sourceRay is a free and open-source distributed computing framework governed by the PyTorch Foundation under the Apache 2.0 license. It can be self-hosted on any cloud or on-prem cluster with zero licensing costs, while managed execution is available via cloud providers like Anyscale.Actopen sourceFree and 100% open source under the MIT license. Act has no licensing costs or subscription tiers; it runs locally via Docker and saves billable GitHub Actions runner minutes.
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FAQ

How much does Infracost cost?

Infracost Community CLI is 100% free and open source under Apache-2.0 (12.5k+ GitHub stars) offering unlimited local and CI/CD PR cost diff estimations across Terraform, OpenTofu, and Terragrunt. Infracost Cloud (Pro/Enterprise starting from ~$250/mo or custom annual plans) provides centralized FinOps governance, policy-as-code guardrails (budget caps, ARM Graviton recommendations, tagging enforcement), custom enterprise cloud price books, SAML SSO, Jira/Slack alerts, and SOC 2 Type II compliance. Paid pricing starts at ~$250/mo.

Does Infracost have a free plan?

Yes — Infracost has a free plan alongside its paid tiers.

Can you self-host Infracost for free?

Infracost is open source under the Apache-2.0 license. Self-hosting does not add a software license fee, but you still pay for infrastructure, operations, and any external model or API usage. Any hosted, managed, or API plans remain separately priced.

What are free or cheaper Infracost alternatives?

Cilium, OrbStack, Ray are in the same category with a free plan or open-source license.

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