Northflank

The runtime platform for AI-native companies

As of 29 August 2026, Northflank has a free plan and paid plans start at $0.01667/hour. Northflank is a runtime platform designed for deploying applications, databases, jobs, and AI models across any cloud with GPU support, preview environments, and multi-cloud flexibility. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Northflank is available on Self-hosted.

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Overview

What Northflank does

Northflank is a runtime platform built for AI-native companies seeking one governed path from AI-generated code to production. The platform enables rapid deployment of applications, databases, jobs, and AI models across AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises infrastructure. Northflank provides managed abstractions over Kubernetes complexity, supporting GPU workloads with options from L4 to H100, automatic scaling, and preview environments created from pull requests. The platform offers comprehensive features including CI/CD with Git integration, build and release pipelines, sandboxes, and managed databases like PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, and RabbitMQ. With support for over 330 availability zones globally, bring-your-own-cloud deployments, and built-in observability with backup and restore capabilities, Northflank serves organizations deploying inference, APIs, notebooks, and training workloads.

What people use it for

Deploying AI inference models with GPU acceleration
Running training workloads on distributed GPUs
Building microservices with multi-cloud reliability

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Northflank.

Pricing complexity with multiple rate dimensions
GPU costs can be expensive for large-scale deployments
Learning curve for Kubernetes concepts

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Pricing

What Northflank costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Sandbox (Free)

Free

Always-on compute with no sleeping
2 free services
1 free database
2 free cron jobs
Perfect for testing

Pay-as-you-go

On request

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 request

Custom pricing with volume discounts
Invoice-based billing
Annual commitments
24/7 support with SLAs
White-label solutions
Hybrid cloud deployments

Capabilities

Features

Application deployments
Run containerized applications and microservices
GPU support
Deploy on L4, H100, and other GPU accelerators
Preview environments
Spin up ephemeral environments from pull requests
Database management
Managed PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ
Multi-cloud support
Deploy across AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises
GitOps integration
Git-based CI/CD with templates and automation

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

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What is included in the free Sandbox tier?

The Sandbox includes always-on compute, 2 free services, 1 free database, 2 free cron jobs, and is perfect for testing applications.

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How much does CPU cost on Northflank?

CPU costs $0.01667 per vCPU per hour on pay-as-you-go pricing.

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What GPUs are available?

GPU options include NVIDIA L4 at $0.80/hr through H100 at $2.74/hr.

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