Northflank

What it is for

Northflank is a usage-metered deploy desk: you drop services, jobs, and a database on a project canvas, and Sandbox is $0 (no card; 2 services, 2 jobs, 1 database, up to $20/month of Northflank Cloud resources). Use it when the job is workloads you start at $0, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Northflank project canvas (My Project, Services / Jobs / Secrets / Pipelines / Addons) from the docs project-overview still — not a pricing card. The canvas itself is ops of Projects.

Key features

• Services — a Git repo or image you keep running (project still Services; pricing Services). A process, not a job. Continuous deploy and the cover “Staging / Production deployment” rows are ops of this. Sandbox is 2.
• Jobs — a cron or one-off run (cover Jobs). A task, not a service. Sandbox is 2.
• Addons — a managed datastore on the same canvas (cover Addons; pricing Addons). Postgres / MySQL / MongoDB / Redis, not a service image. Sandbox is 1. Disk is $0.11657/GiB-month on Northflank Cloud.
• Secret groups — env vars you inject (cover Secrets; pricing Secret groups). A vault, not a process. Unlimited on every printed card.
• Pipelines — a release graph across those resources (cover Pipelines; pricing Pipelines). A path, not a service. Unlimited on Sandbox.

CPU / RAM / egress are the usage meters, not extra desks. The CLI is install. BYOC (your VPC) is the same desk billed per node vCPU ($0.02083/node-vCPU-hour), not a sixth canvas.

Who it's for

Best fit: 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.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from northflank.com/pricing. “Billed to the second, with no seat fees.” There is no Hobby $5 tile — Sandbox is Free, then usage.

• Sandbox — $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.
• Pay as you go — usage-based. Unlimited users, deployments, workloads, projects. RBAC, GPUs, Platform SDK. Northflank Cloud compute $0.01667/vCPU-hour and memory $0.00833/GB-hour. Persistent disk $0.11657/GiB-month. Egress $0.06/GB. Extra IOPS $7.37/1,000 IOPS-month. Extra throughput $5.85/100 MiB/s-month. Egress gateway $15/month. BYOC node vCPU $0.02083/hour.
• Enterprise — custom platform fee + usage + SLA. SAML, SCIM, audit logs, white-label, 99.99% SLA, dedicated Slack. Confirm the live quote — do not invent an Enterprise dollar.
• Printed compute plans (Northflank Cloud, month column) — nf-compute-50 (0.5 vCPU · 1 GB) $12; nf-compute-100-2 (1 vCPU · 2 GB) $24; nf-compute-200 (2 vCPU · 4 GB) $48; nf-compute-400 (4 vCPU · 8 GB) $96; nf-compute-800-16 (8 vCPU · 16 GB) $192.
• GPUs (Cloud, per hour) — L4 $0.80; A100 40 GB $1.42; A100 80 GB $1.76; H100 $2.74; RTX PRO 6000 $3.00; H200 (8×) $3.14; B200 (8×) $5.87. BYOC GPU fee $1.00/GB VRAM/month on top of your cloud bill.

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Limitations / costs

• Sandbox is 2 services, 2 jobs, 1 addon, and $20 of Cloud resources. A third service is Pay as you go, not a second Free bucket.
• PAYG is a meter, not a $24 seat. The $12 / $24 / $48 plan column is a size if it ran all month; you are billed to the second.
• No self-host control plane on the Sandbox card. BYOC still pays Northflank $0.02083/node-vCPU-hour.
• A deploy desk, not a self-host PaaS you run alone. For a control plane on your VPS see Coolify or Dokploy.

Alternatives

• Railway — usage-metered PaaS with a $5 / $20 minimum when you want Railway’s canvas, not Northflank’s services/jobs/addons split.
• Coolify — a self-hosted PaaS when you will not pay Northflank vCPU hours.
• Dokploy — a Docker-compose control plane you host when the job is your VPS.

Official tutorial

Official Northflank channel video: Northflank | Platform walkthrough (oEmbed author: Northflank). First-party platform walkthrough; the docs project-canvas still is the cover.

Written path: northflank.com/pricing plus the project-overview still.

Website

https://northflank.com

Repository

https://github.com/northflank/deploy-to-northflank

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Northflank project canvas from the docs still. Dollars checked on northflank.com/pricing (Sandbox $0 with $20 Cloud resources; PAYG CPU $0.01667/vCPU-hour; memory $0.00833/GB-hour; disk $0.11657/GiB-month; 1 vCPU · 2 GB plan $24/month if always-on). Tutorial oEmbed author: Northflank.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.