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Northflank pricing
Northflank publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $0.01667/hour
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Northflank plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbox (Free) | Free | 5 | Entry tier |
| Pay-as-you-go | On request | 5 | Priced on request |
| Enterprise | On request | 6 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Sandbox (Free)
FreeThe entry tier. It covers always-on compute with no sleeping, 2 free services, 1 free database, 2 free cron jobs, perfect for testing.
Pay-as-you-go
On requestOver Sandbox (Free), this tier adds:
- CPU: $0.01667 per vCPU per hour
- Memory: $0.00833 per GB per hour
- Network egress: $0.06 per GB
- Disk storage: $0.15 per GB per month
- GPU: L4 $0.80/hr through H100 $2.74/hr
Enterprise
On requestOver Pay-as-you-go, this tier adds:
- Custom pricing with volume discounts
- Invoice-based billing
- Annual commitments
- 24/7 support with SLAs
- White-label solutions
- Hybrid cloud deployments
Where Northflank stops being free
Sandbox (Free), Free
- Always-on compute with no sleeping
- 2 free services
- 1 free database
- 2 free cron jobs
- Perfect for testing
No paid tier on record
Northflank lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Northflank feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Deployment
- Application deployments
Compute
- GPU support
Development
- Preview environments
Data
- Database management
Infrastructure
- Multi-cloud support
DevOps
- GitOps integration
People bring Northflank in for deploying ai inference models with gpu acceleration, running training workloads on distributed gpus, building microservices with multi-cloud reliability. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Northflank are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cloud
Too few cloud tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northflank (this page) | Free, then $0.01667/hour | - | - | |
| Zipkin | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Northflank |
| HAProxy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Northflank |
| Thanos | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Northflank |
| Flux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Northflank |
| Kustomize | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Northflank |
| VictoriaMetrics | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Northflank |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Northflank badges page.
Before you pay for Northflank
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Northflank runs on aws, gcp, azure, on-premises, and is published by Northflank. The full record is on the Northflank review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.
Northflank pricing questions
- How much does Northflank cost?
- Northflank publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Sandbox (Free) up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Northflank have a free plan?
- Yes. The Sandbox (Free) tier costs nothing and covers always-on compute with no sleeping, 2 free services, 1 free database.
- What is the difference between Sandbox (Free) and Pay-as-you-go on Northflank?
- Pay-as-you-go costs On request against Free, and adds cpu: $0.01667 per vcpu per hour, memory: $0.00833 per gb per hour, network egress: $0.06 per gb, disk storage: $0.15 per gb per month.
- Which cloud tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Northflank have a free tier: Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux, Kustomize.
- What am I actually paying for with Northflank?
- The record lists 6 features across 6 areas: deployment, compute, development, data, infrastructure, devops. In practice it is brought in for deploying ai inference models with gpu acceleration, running training workloads on distributed gpus, building microservices with multi-cloud reliability.
- Does Northflank charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Northflank prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Northflank against before paying?
- The closest cloud tools in this directory are Zipkin, HAProxy, Thanos, Flux. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Northflank covering price, platforms and features.