Our take
Pick Northflank if app teams who will stay on Sandbox at $0 (2 services, 2 jobs, 1 database, $20 of Cloud resources, no seat fee) while they ship a first project canvas, then move to Pay as you go when they need unlimited services and horizontal scale — billed from $0.01667/vCPU-hour on Northflank Cloud. Pick Qovery if platform teams who will start the 14-day trial, then buy Starter at $299 / month (3 users, yearly)
usage-metered deploy desk
Best for
Northflank Workloads you start at $0
Qovery Dev / prod environments on your own cloud
Free plan
Northflank $0 · no card. 2 services, 2 jobs, 1 database. Up to $20/month of resources on Northflank Cloud. 1 BYOC cluster, up to 12 vCPU / 48 GB (your cloud still bills that infra). Always on, no sleeping. 2 projects. Best-effort support
Qovery No free plan
Lowest paid
Northflank Printed compute plans $12
Qovery Not published by the vendor
Runs where
Northflank Local; you host it
Qovery
Watch out
Northflank Sandbox is 2 services, 2 jobs, 1 addon, and $20 of Cloud resources
Qovery Starter is $299 / month, not $0
Last checked
Northflank 2026-10-23 · northflank.com/pricing
Qovery 2026-10-23 · qovery.com/pricing
app teams who will stay on Sandbox at $0 (2 services, 2 jobs, 1 database, $20 of Cloud resources, no seat fee) while they ship a first project canvas, then move to Pay as you go when they need unlimited services and horizontal scale — billed from $0.01667/vCPU-hour on Northflank Cloud.
Read the Northflank pageplatform teams who will start the 14-day trial, then buy Starter at $299 / month (3 users, yearly) to put first environments on their own AWS / GCP / Azure / Scaleway — and step to Team at $899 / month when they need 10 users and staging + production monitoring.
Read the Qovery page