CloudCostTree for VS Code

Interactive cost analysis, FinOps recommendations, policy checks, and a what-if simulator for your infrastructure — right inside the editor.

This extension is a thin UI layer over the cloudcosttree CLI: every number you see comes from a real cloudcosttree analyze --export json:- call, not a reimplementation. No pricing/parsing logic is duplicated here.

Requirements

None — the extension downloads the matching cloudcosttree CLI binary for your OS/CPU automatically the first time you run an analysis (shown as a one-time "downloading the cloudcosttree CLI" notification). If you already have cloudcosttree on your PATH (e.g. installed via curl -fsSL https://cloudcosttree.com/install.sh | sh, or built from source), the extension uses that instead of downloading its own copy. To pin a specific binary yourself, set the cloudcosttree.binaryPath setting.

Features

• Analyze Current File: right-click a .tf/.tfstate/.json/.yaml infrastructure file (or run the command with one open) to open an interactive report.
• Collapsible tree grouped by module/stack, with cost, policy-violation coloring, and a savings badge per resource.
• Pie + bar charts (cost distribution, cost by resource type).
• Click any resource for its full details, its own FinOps recommendations, its policy violations, and a What-If Simulator form scoped to fields that actually apply to it (instance type, IOPS, Multi-AZ, ...) — powered entirely by the CLI's existing --whatif flags.
• Export the current view as Markdown, HTML (via the CLI), or PNG (a snapshot of the whole panel).
• Follows the VS Code color theme automatically (styled with --vscode-* CSS variables — no separate dark/light code path).

Settings