Embodiments are provided for intelligent recommendations for program code. In some embodiments, a system can include a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in memory. The computer-executable components can include an evaluation component that determines that first program code pertains to a defined category representing a defined cost to execute the first program code by a cloud computing service. The computer-executable components also can include a recommendation component that generates a recommendation for second program code that satisfies a similarity criterion with respect to the first program code. The second program code pertains to a category representing a cost to execute the second program code by the cloud computing service, where the cost is less than the defined cost.