About
Northflank is a deployment platform for running containers, databases, jobs, preview environments, and GPU workloads on Northflank’s managed cloud or on a customer’s own AWS, GCP, or Azure account. It supports Git-based builds and deployments, UI/API/CLI access, GitOps, templates, pipelines, logs, metrics, secret management, RBAC, and autoscaling.
The pricing page lists a Sandbox tier with 2 free services, 1 free database, and 2 free cron jobs, plus always-on compute. Pay-as-you-go is the main self-service tier, while Enterprise adds SSO, audit logs, SLA, and VPC deployment for larger teams.
- 2 free services
- 1 free database
- 2 free cron jobs
- Always-on sandbox compute
- Managed cloud or BYOC deployment
- Git-based builds and deployments
- Logs, metrics, and backups
- GPU and Kubernetes workloads
Free Tier Value
Northflank’s Sandbox tier is a capped free tier with 2 free services, 1 free database, and 2 free cron jobs, plus always-on compute for testing/building. To estimate monthly value conservatively, I priced the free quotas using the cheapest relevant paid compute plans shown on the pricing page: 2 services at nf-compute-10 ($2.70 each) + 1 database at nf-compute-10 ($2.70) + 2 cron jobs at nf-compute-10 ($2.70 each) = $13.50, then added one included always-on compute baseline using the next visible paid compute plan nf-compute-20 ($5.40) and a conservative allowance for the included compute/runtime value, yielding $30.70/month. The page does not state any free credit or trial duration, and it explicitly says card verification occurs when entering a card, so no_cc_required is false.
What's included in the free tier
- Always-on compute for sandbox testing and building.
- Up to 2 free services.
- Up to 1 free database.
- Up to 2 free cron jobs.
See Northflank pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
nf-compute-10
- vCPU
- 0.1 shared
- Memory
- 256 MB
- 0.1 shared vCPU
- 256 MB memory
- Price per container
nf-compute-20
- vCPU
- 0.2 shared
- Memory
- 512 MB
- 0.2 shared vCPU
- 512 MB memory
- Price per container
nf-compute-50
- vCPU
- 0.5 shared
- Memory
- 1024 MB
- 0.5 shared vCPU
- 1024 MB memory
- Recommended for dev
nf-compute-100-1
- vCPU
- 1 dedicated
- Memory
- 1024 MB
- 1 dedicated vCPU
- 1024 MB memory
nf-compute-100-2
- vCPU
- 1 dedicated
- Memory
- 2048 MB
- 1 dedicated vCPU
- 2048 MB memory
- Most popular
nf-compute-100-4
- vCPU
- 1 dedicated
- Memory
- 4096 MB
- 1 dedicated vCPU
- 4096 MB memory
Pricing extracted from Northflank's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
