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. The peak number of managed resources in a given hour determines the cost.

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. You can find the total cost in the HashiCorp Cloud Platform portal. It is refreshed hourly.

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

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 x $0.0001359 = $0.14
• Per Month Price: (Per Hour Price x 24 x 30) = $97.85

Another example calculation factors in billable managed resource counts, partial hour billing, and peak managed resources over a 3-hour period:

• The first hour, 1000 resources are created, calculated to cost $0.14 per hour.
• Over the next hour, 1000 new resources are added, 500 are changed, and then 500 are destroyed for a peak managed resource count of 2000, billing that previous hour for $0.27 and a total consumption of $0.41.
• There are no changes in the third hour, for a peak managed resource count of 1500, billed for $0.20 and a total consumption of $0.61.

Manage your plan

To edit your organization's plan, navigate to the Plan & Billing page and click Edit Plan. If you cannot edit your organization's plan due to an active contract, contact your HashiCorp account team.

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

Downgrade your plan

Pay-as-you-go customers can downgrade to HCP Terraform Free Edition. To downgrade your organization's plan, navigate to the Plan & Billing page and click Downgrade to the free plan.

HCP Terraform displays a list of the features that you will lose access to when you downgrade to the free edition. Click Downgrade to free plan to confirm.

Optimize 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.