Consider switching to Infracost API

[gdubicki]

I have recently written an internal app that is using Infracost API and it works really well.

Infracost API is a third-party solution, not from GCP, but from a company that focuses on providing accurate cloud infra cost estimations. So they do their best to deal with the price scraping / using Catalog API in the backend and provide a nice GraphQL API in the front.

It's available for free but you can also self-host your own instance.

[Burekasim]

Hi @gdubicki

Are there any discrepancies between gcpinstances.info and Google Cloud official pricing?

if there is no issue with the pricing, I don't see a reason to rewrite the entire scraper.

[gdubicki]

No, I haven't noticed any discrepancies.

So sure, there is no need to do this now.

But I think it's worth considering in the future if the scraping would start to require a lot of work to maintain it.