💰 infra-cost

Multi-cloud FinOps CLI tool for comprehensive cost analysis and infrastructure optimization

Take control of your cloud costs across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, and Oracle Cloud 🚀

Installation • Quick Start • Features • Documentation • Contributing

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✨ What's New in v1.11.0

Advanced Cost Analysis & Security Fixes

• 📊 Cost Forecasting: Predict 1-12 months ahead with 4 statistical models (linear, exponential, seasonal, auto)
• 🌐 Multi-Cloud Comparison: Compare costs across AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, Alibaba with service-level breakdowns
• 📈 Cost Trends: Analyze spending patterns with ASCII visualization and volatility detection
• 🔒 Security Hardening: CORS restrictions, API key auth by default, memory leak fixes
• ⚡ Performance: Async file operations, automatic cache cleanup, 85% faster responses

See CHANGELOG.md for complete release notes.

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🎯 Why infra-cost?

Save money. Optimize resources. Make informed decisions.

• 💸 Reduce cloud spend by up to 30% with actionable insights
• 🔍 Multi-cloud visibility - see costs across all your providers in one place
• ⚡ Real-time analysis - get instant cost breakdowns and trends
• 🤖 AI-powered recommendations for optimization opportunities
• 📊 Executive reports - beautiful PDF reports for stakeholders
• 🔔 Smart alerting - proactive cost anomaly detection
• 💬 Team collaboration - Slack integration for cost awareness

🚀 Features

🌐 Multi-Cloud Support

• AWS ✅ Full support with Cost Explorer integration
• Google Cloud ✅ BigQuery billing export, multi-project support
• Microsoft Azure 🚧 Architecture ready, coming soon
• Alibaba Cloud 🚧 Architecture ready, coming soon
• Oracle Cloud 🚧 Architecture ready, coming soon

📊 Comprehensive Analytics

• Cost Forecasting - 1-12 month predictions with confidence intervals
• Multi-Cloud Comparison - Side-by-side cost analysis across providers
• Cost Trends - Historical analysis with visualization
• Budget Monitoring - Track against budgets with smart alerts
• Resource Rightsizing - ML recommendations for optimal instance sizes
• Anomaly Detection - AI-powered cost spike identification

🎛️ Advanced Features

• Interactive Dashboards - Rich terminal UI with real-time data
• Terraform Cost Preview - Estimate costs before deployment
• Git Cost History - Correlate cost changes with commits
• IaC Annotations - Add cost comments to Terraform/CloudFormation files
• AWS Organizations - Multi-account cost management
• CI/CD Integration - GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI

🔧 Developer Experience

• Multiple output formats: Fancy tables, plain text, JSON, CSV, Excel
• Flexible authentication: Environment variables, IAM roles, profiles
• Zero-config quick commands: infra-cost now for instant cost checks
• API Server: REST endpoints for custom integrations
• Webhook Support: Real-time notifications and integrations

📦 Installation

npm (Recommended)

npm install -g infra-cost

Homebrew (macOS/Linux)

brew tap codecollab-co/tap
brew install infra-cost

npx (No installation required)

npx infra-cost

Docker

docker run --rm codecollab-co/infra-cost --help

GitHub Action

- uses: codecollab-co/infra-cost@v1.11.0
  with:
    provider: aws
    aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
    aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}

🎯 Quick Start

1. Instant Cost Check

# Zero-config daily cost check
infra-cost now

# Output: Today's Cost: $45.23 (+$3.12 from yesterday)
#         Top Services: EC2 $22.10 | RDS $15.30 | S3 $4.20

2. AWS Cost Analysis

# Analyze costs with default AWS credentials
infra-cost cost analyze

# Show cost trends over time
infra-cost cost trends --period 30d

# Get cost forecast
infra-cost cost forecast --months 3

3. Google Cloud Platform

# Analyze GCP costs
infra-cost cost analyze \
  --provider gcp \
  --project-id my-project \
  --key-file /path/to/service-account.json

4. Multi-Cloud Comparison

# Compare costs across providers
infra-cost cost compare --providers aws,gcp,azure

5. Optimization & Monitoring

# Get optimization recommendations
infra-cost optimize recommendations

# Check cost alerts and budgets
infra-cost monitor alerts
infra-cost monitor budgets

🔐 Authentication

AWS Authentication

Environment Variables (Recommended)

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your_access_key
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your_secret_key
export AWS_REGION=us-east-1
infra-cost cost analyze

AWS Profiles

infra-cost cost analyze --profile production

IAM Roles / AWS SSO

# Automatically uses attached IAM role
infra-cost cost analyze

# Or use AWS SSO
aws sso login --profile my-sso-profile
infra-cost cost analyze --profile my-sso-profile

Google Cloud Authentication

Service Account (Recommended)

export GOOGLE_PROJECT_ID=your-project-id
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=/path/to/service-account-key.json
infra-cost cost analyze --provider gcp

Application Default Credentials

gcloud auth application-default login
infra-cost cost analyze --provider gcp --project-id your-project-id

GCP Permissions Required:

• resourcemanager.projects.get
• bigquery.jobs.create
• bigquery.tables.getData

Setup BigQuery Billing Export:

1. Go to GCP Billing Console
2. Enable "BigQuery export"
3. Wait 24 hours for initial data

📖 Command Reference

infra-cost uses a modern subcommand-based architecture. Here's a quick overview:

Quick Commands

• infra-cost now - Instant daily cost check (zero config)
• infra-cost free-tier - AWS Free Tier usage tracker
• infra-cost annotate - Add cost comments to IaC files
• infra-cost history - Git cost history and blame analysis

Core Command Groups

Cost Analysis - See detailed docs

• cost analyze - Comprehensive cost analysis
• cost forecast - Predict future costs (1-12 months)
• cost compare - Multi-cloud cost comparison
• cost trends - Historical cost trend analysis

Optimization - See detailed docs

• optimize recommendations - AI-powered optimization suggestions
• optimize quickwins - Find immediate savings opportunities
• optimize rightsizing - Instance rightsizing recommendations
• optimize cross-cloud - Cross-cloud optimization analysis

Monitoring & Alerts - See detailed docs

• monitor alerts - Check cost alerts
• monitor budgets - Monitor budget status
• monitor watch - Real-time cost monitoring
• monitor anomaly - Detect cost anomalies

Export & Reports - See detailed docs

• export inventory json|csv|xlsx|pdf - Export resource inventory
• chargeback report - Generate chargeback reports
• chargeback slack - Send reports to Slack

AWS Organizations - See detailed docs

• organizations list - List all accounts
• organizations summary - Organization-wide cost summary
• organizations daily - Daily costs for all accounts

Configuration

• config init - Initialize configuration
• config show - Show current configuration
• config validate - Validate configuration
• config migrate - Migrate from v0.x

Interactive Dashboards

• dashboard interactive - Launch interactive TUI dashboard
• dashboard multicloud - Multi-cloud dashboard

Terraform Integration - See detailed docs

• terraform --plan <file> - Estimate costs before deployment

Get help for any command:

infra-cost --help
infra-cost cost --help
infra-cost cost analyze --help

🏗️ Architecture

infra-cost v1.0+ uses a clean architecture with:

• Subcommand Architecture - Domain-organized, discoverable commands
• Provider Pattern - Pluggable cloud provider implementations
• Type Safety - Comprehensive TypeScript with Zod validation
• Configuration First - Unified config system with profiles
• Clean Separation - CLI, core logic, and providers are decoupled

See docs/code_flow.md for architecture details.

🤖 CI/CD Integration

GitHub Actions

name: Cost Analysis
on: [pull_request]

jobs:
  cost-check:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: codecollab-co/infra-cost@v1.11.0
        with:
          provider: aws
          command: now
          comment-on-pr: true
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Terraform Cost Gates

- name: Terraform Cost Preview
  uses: codecollab-co/infra-cost@v1.11.0
  with:
    command: terraform
    additional-args: '--plan tfplan --threshold 20'

See docs/commands/CI_CD.md for more examples.

📊 Example Output

Cost Analysis

infra-cost cost analyze --output fancy

Interactive Dashboard

infra-cost dashboard interactive

Real-time cost monitoring with keyboard navigation, multiple views (Services, Resources, Trends, Alerts), and auto-refresh.

📚 Documentation

User Documentation

• Installation Guide - Detailed installation instructions
• Quick Start Guide - Get started in 5 minutes
• Command Reference - Detailed command documentation
• Authentication Guide - AWS, GCP, Azure auth setup
• CHANGELOG.md - Version history and release notes
• MIGRATION_GUIDE.md - Migrate from v0.x to v1.0

Developer Documentation

• Architecture Guide - Codebase structure and design
• Contributing Guide - How to contribute
• Testing Guide - Test results and coverage
• Release Guide - Release procedures

See docs/README.md for complete documentation index.

🛠️ Development

# Clone and setup
git clone https://github.com/codecollab-co/infra-cost.git
cd infra-cost
npm install

# Build and test
npm run build
npm test

# Type checking and linting
npm run typecheck
npm run lint

# Run locally
npm run dev

See docs/DEVELOPMENT.md for detailed development guide.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Here's how you can help:

• ⭐ Star this repository to show your support
• 🐛 Report bugs via GitHub Issues
• 💡 Suggest features via GitHub Discussions
• 📝 Improve documentation - help others understand the tool
• 🔧 Add cloud provider support - help us expand to more providers
• 🧪 Write tests - improve code quality

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.

📞 Support & Community

Get Help

• 📚 Documentation: docs.codecollab.co/infra-cost (coming soon)
• 🐛 Bug Reports: GitHub Issues
• 💡 Feature Requests: GitHub Discussions
• 📧 Email: support@codecollab.co

Enterprise Support

For enterprise deployments, custom integrations, and professional support:

• 📧 Contact: enterprise@codecollab.co
• 🔒 SLA-backed support available
• 🎨 Custom branding and whitelabeling
• 🏗️ Professional services and consulting

🚀 Roadmap

✅ Completed (2024-2025)

• ✅ AWS full support with Organizations
• ✅ Google Cloud Platform support
• ✅ Cost forecasting (4 statistical models)
• ✅ Multi-cloud cost comparison
• ✅ Interactive TUI dashboard
• ✅ Terraform cost preview
• ✅ GitHub Actions integration
• ✅ Git cost history & blame
• ✅ IaC file annotations

Q1-Q2 2026 (In Progress)

• 🚧 Microsoft Azure integration
• 🚧 Alibaba Cloud support
• 🚧 Oracle Cloud support
• 📋 VS Code extension
• 📋 Enhanced forecasting models
• 📋 Advanced automation engine

Future Vision

• Carbon footprint tracking
• Multi-tenant SaaS platform
• Mobile app companion
• Natural language queries
• FinOps best practices automation

See full roadmap for detailed timeline.

📋 Requirements

AWS Permissions

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [{
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": [
      "iam:ListAccountAliases",
      "ce:GetCostAndUsage",
      "ce:GetRightsizingRecommendation",
      "budgets:ViewBudget",
      "sts:GetCallerIdentity"
    ],
    "Resource": "*"
  }]
}

System Requirements

• Node.js 20+ (required)
• Memory: 512MB+ available
• Network: Internet access for cloud provider APIs

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📄 License

MIT © Code Collab

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