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Infracost

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Founded 2020Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Infracost shifts cloud costs left and makes FinOps proactive. It sits in the engineering workflow (CI/CD), and shows the cost impact of code changes (IaC) before the code is shipped to production. This catches costly mistakes before any money has been spent. It also checks to make sure all resources are tagged with your set tagging policy, and runs checks on the code against our FinOps policy packs, ensuring best practices are followed (e.g. using Graviton processors and storage lifecycle rules).

This creates a cost-aware engineering culture.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Ali Khajeh-Hosseini

Founder

Ali Khajeh-Hosseini is the co-founder of Infracost, where he leads Product and Customer Success. He has spent over a decade at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and cost optimization, including earning a PhD in cloud cost modeling—before "FinOps" was even a term. Prior to Infracost, Ali co-founded two cloud startups that were acquired. Today, he works closely with some of the world’s largest enterprises to make cloud costs actionable, automated, and developer-first.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Alistair Scott

Founder

Co-founder of Infracost. Developer at heart. Love to ski and cook. Currently on a mission to cook a dish from every country in the world.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
25team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2020 · Source

Origins

In our first startup, we built one of the first cloud cost management products, which was later acquired and is now part of the Flexera One product. That was back in 2012. The cloud cost management space hasn’t changed in 10 years. Every company still starts from the bills, meaning they look for issues and react. With Infracost, we wanted to apply the shift left philisophy, which worked great is security to cloud costs. That’s what Infracost has become - we [Shift FinOps Left](https://www.infracost.io/) into the engineering workflow.

Founder account As recorded 2026-09-15

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Sequoia · Y Combinator

Profile depthenriched profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedRemote
Pricing evidenceA pricing page was detected
Maturity: Launched · 4 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-09-16

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