Frugal vs. Infracost

Go beyond basic infrastructure PR review.

Frugal and Infracost both review IaC code changes for cost issues but that is where the similarity ends. Frugal looks at all code, not just Infrastructure code. Frugal also reviews your deployed code to find issues that might have slipped through the cracks - finding waste and savings.

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Cost coverage

Frugal covers all your costs - not just Infrastructure

Frugal covers all your costs - not just Infrastructure
Coverage Frugal Infracost
IaC (Terraform, Kubernetes...) Costs Yes Yes
AI Usage Costs Yes No
Database Usage Costs Yes No
Observability Costs Yes No
Serverless Costs Yes No

Lifecycle coverage

Frugal covers the whole SDLC from design to production.

Coverage
Design Review
Code Review
Code Generation
Production Monitoring and Optimization
Frugal
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Infracost
No
Partial (IaC only)
Partial (IaC only)
No

Cost attribution

Frugal has powerful attribution - giving context to engineers and agents

01/ Cost to code

Unlike Infracost, Frugal attributes all costs to the code that drives them, so FinOps can track costs back to the engineering teams that own them.

02/ Application spend

Unlike Infracost, Frugal shows what applications spend across all cloud services, so engineering teams can see their spending and what to do about it

03/ Call-site detail

Unlike Infracost, Frugal details cost data to the call site in the code, so engineers have the info they need to optimize