{"id":1693,"date":"2026-06-24T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/show-hn-cost-dev-yc-w21-making-agents-cost-aware-and-cheaper-to-call\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:34:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T03:34:51","slug":"show-hn-cost-dev-yc-w21-making-agents-cost-aware-and-cheaper-to-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/show-hn-cost-dev-yc-w21-making-agents-cost-aware-and-cheaper-to-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) \u2013 making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We launched Infracost on HN five years ago (https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=26064588) where our CLI generated cost estimates for infra-as-code, e.g. &#8220;this Terraform PR adds $400\/mo&#8221;. The idea was to shift cloud costs (FinOps) left, so engineers get visibility of costs before deployment and make better decisions.Earlier this year we started seeing agent traffic in our logs and it looked like coding agents were calling our CLI. But that CLI wasn&#8217;t designed with coding agents in mind. We went &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cost.dev\/\">\u67e5\u770b\u539f\u6587 \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><small>\u6765\u6e90\uff1aHacker News \u00b7 RSS \u91c7\u96c6<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We launched Infracost on HN five years ago (https:\/\/new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.rungobag.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}