# Infracost

This plugin allows you to have a cost estimation for your infrastructure from your Terraform code.

* [Home page](https://www.infracost.io/).
* [Source code on Github](https://github.com/infracost/infracost).

![Infracost plugin](https://2733077811-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F7YhVIZuz5Brv8kisTlFL%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-a11bf376b406980f89919dfaff2d009bdfbb96bf%2Finfracost-plugin.png?alt=media)

**Configuration options**

1. API key: you can generate it from your Infracost account.
2. Command: 2 commands supported
   * Breakdown: this command shows a breakdown of costs.
   * Diff: this command shows a diff of monthly costs between the deployed infrastructure and planned changes.
3. Version: always points to the latest version.
4. Ignore failure: if enabled, the execution of the following stage will be triggered even if the task fails.
5. Disable cache.
6. Project name.
7. Require approval: means that this task will not be executed until approved by people added in the approvers' list.
   * The task remains blocked until all approvers added in the list approve it.
   * When enabled, it allows you to add approvers to the list<br>

     <figure><img src="https://2733077811-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F7YhVIZuz5Brv8kisTlFL%2Fuploads%2FZKgvnPvOoj5vM7zhSMGV%2FCleanShot%202025-07-10%20at%2013.25.53%402x.png?alt=media&#x26;token=c0edd24a-3b3c-4062-b4fa-45852a04615c" alt=""><figcaption></figcaption></figure>
   * The approver has to be Brainboard user
8. Show skipped: list unsupported and free resources.

**Sample output**

![Infracost output](https://2733077811-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F7YhVIZuz5Brv8kisTlFL%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-e84bf08efe734cfb8d940c3bf2880a1dd0a5b0d9%2Finfracost-output.png?alt=media)

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