Estimate HCP Terraform Cost

HCP Terraform offers multiple plans with increasing benefits to match your business scale. This page describes the flat rate per managed resource per hour for Standard Edition users on pay-as-you-go billing. Additional options are available such as greater discounts at larger scale with contracted plans. Contact Sales for additional information.

What is a Managed Resource?

A “Managed Resource” or “Resources Under Management (RUM)” is a resource in a Terraform-Cloud-managed state file where mode = "managed". HCP Terraform counts a resource as part of this count starting from the first terraform plan or terraform apply operation on the resource. HCP Terraform does not include resources defined as a null_resource or terraform_data resource in the total managed resource count.

Examples of managed resources include resources provisioned by a Terraform provider (e.g. an AWS VPC), by count and for_each meta-arguments, and resources provisioned by modules and no-code ready modules.

Standard Edition Cost on Pay-As-You-Go Billing

HashiCorp charges for each managed resource on a per-hour basis, from the time a managed resource is provisioned until it is destroyed. Each partial hour is billed as a full hour. Thus, the peak number of managed resources in a given hour is used for billing purposes.

For HCP Terraform Standard Edition, the first 500 managed resources are free every month. Your organization's Usage page reports the total number of managed resources, which you can use to determine the number of billable managed resources in use at any given time. Total consumption in monetary terms is also reported in the HashiCorp Cloud Platform portal and refreshed every hour.

The Usage report gives an at a glance view of general usage limits in the Organization:

A summary of projects, workspaces, and applies
General limits for managed resources, concurrency, and agents
Compliance feature set limits for run tasks and policies

Screenshot: An example of an organization's usage report, showing a count of 970 total managed resources

An example on HCP Terraform Standard Edition that assumes 24x7 usage for a full month for 1000 Managed Resources:

Per Hour Price: 1000 Managed Resources - 500 Free) x $0.0001359 = $0.07
Per Month Price: (Per Hour Price x 24 x 30) = $48.92

Another example over a 3-hour billing period that incorporates the concepts of:

Billable Managed Resource Counts (Resource count following a successful apply)
Partial Hour Billing (Resources provisioned mid-hour)
Peak managed resources (The greatest count of managed resources at any point in the current hour)

Manage Your Plan

In the Plan & Billing page in Organization settings, you can view a monthly estimate when you click Edit Plan. If your Organization cannot edit its plan due to an active contract, you will not be able to see the estimate in HCP Terraform and should instead contact your HashiCorp account team.

Screenshot: The screen for an HCP Terraform user to choose to upgrade their plan. Two plans are shown. The first is the Standard Edition, listed with the cost per resource per month. The second option is the Plus Edition, instructing the user to contact sales for a price.

Pay-as-you-go and HashiCorp Flex customers can self-activate their HCP Terraform Organizations. Refer to Changing Your HCP Terraform Plan for details.

Optimizing Cost

Contacting Sales is the best option to help you optimize your costs. There, we will discuss contract options such as when you commit to a certain amount of spend or usage. In our contract plans, the larger your usage, the greater your discount compared to the flat rate, pay-as-you-go model. Contact HashiCorp Sales to learn more.