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 SST if sST/AWS teams who will stay on the free tier (≤350 active resources, no card) while they open a first
usage-metered deploy desk
SST Console for AWS apps. Free ≤350
Best for
Northflank Workloads you start at $0
SST Logs and deploys you start at $0
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
SST $0 · no card to start. Personal stages remain accessible if you go over
Lowest paid
Northflank Printed compute plans $12
SST Old invocation pricing $0.00002
Next step up
Northflank
SST Paid $0.086
Runs where
Northflank Local; you host it
SST Hosted
Watch out
Northflank Sandbox is 2 services, 2 jobs, 1 addon, and $20 of Cloud resources
SST AWS only
Last checked
Northflank 2026-10-23 · northflank.com/pricing
SST 2026-10-23 · sst.dev/docs/console
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 pagesST/AWS teams who will stay on the free tier (≤350 active resources, no card) while they open a first Console overview, then pay $0.086 per active resource / month when a workspace stays over 350.
Read the SST page