Engineers are now able to assess the carbon footprint of their infrastructure decisions before deployment, thanks to a new partnership between Infracost and Greenpixie. The collaboration introduces InfraCarbon, a feature within Infracost Cloud that integrates carbon impact data into pull requests, alongside existing cost visibility.
Infracost, a platform known for bringing cost visibility and FinOps guardrails into pull requests, has teamed up with Greenpixie, a company specializing in accurate cloud emissions reporting. This partnership aims to extend the principle of “Shifting FinOps Left”—empowering engineers with early data—to include sustainability metrics.
InfraCarbon leverages Greenpixie’s emissions models to estimate the carbon impact of infrastructure changes across major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. This information is displayed directly in pull request comments, adjacent to cost estimates and policy recommendations. To make the data more accessible and impactful, Infracost translates carbon metrics into real-world equivalents, such as the number of flights or miles driven, which early access users found particularly motivating.
Hassan Khajeh-Hosseini, cofounder and CEO of Infracost, highlighted the challenge: “We have seen the impact of Shifting FinOps Left by giving engineers visibility into the cost of their code changes before deployment. Most developers also want to reduce their environmental impact; they simply have not had access to the data.” He added that the goal is to address this data gap for sustainability, similar to how FinOps previously tackled cost visibility.
John Ridd, CEO of Greenpixie, emphasized the strategic placement of this data: “Our goal is to help engineering teams make environmentally responsible choices by providing defendable data they trust. By integrating directly into code reviews, Infracost is in a unique position to bring carbon visibility to the people who can actually take action.” He noted that this partnership allows Greenpixie’s data to reach software engineers at the source of potential waste.
InfraCarbon is designed to support organizations moving beyond high-level sustainability reports to proactive emission reduction. While many companies are now required to disclose cloud infrastructure emissions, reporting often occurs retrospectively. InfraCarbon provides this information at the point of decision, enabling teams to choose more efficient instance families, right-size overprovisioned resources, or select regions with cleaner energy mixes.
Both Infracost and Greenpixie view this collaboration as the start of a broader movement. They anticipate that cost efficiency and carbon efficiency will increasingly align, and developers will play a crucial role in achieving sustainability outcomes as more visibility reaches their workflows.
InfraCarbon is currently available to Infracost Cloud customers, with existing users able to enable the feature through their organization settings. New users can sign up via infracost.io and integrate with GitHub, GitLab, or Azure repositories to begin receiving both cost and carbon insights in their pull requests.
Infracost, founded in 2021 and backed by Pruven Capital, Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital, Mango Capital, TIAA Ventures, and Alumni Ventures, helps organizations manage cloud costs by integrating directly into developer workflows. Greenpixie provides cloud emissions intelligence, building models to quantify cloud-related carbon emissions across major service providers to support sustainability teams and engineering leaders.
