Northflank

British platform running containers, jobs and managed databases on its own cloud, in the customer's cloud account, or on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.

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Classification

Categories: Platform as a Service, Containers as a Service, GPU cloud
Operating system: Self-managed
Metal: Resells someone else's, You bring your own 2
Use cases: Web apps, API backends, AI and LLM apps, Background jobs and queues, Data pipelines, Internal tools
Audience: Startups, Small and medium businesses, Enterprises, Agencies

Tech stack

Runtimes: Docker, Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Anything
GPU: GPU instances

Pricing

Pricing model: Metered usage2
Entry price: Under $5 a month 2
Starting price: from $2.70 a month2
Typical ceiling: $150 to $500 a month2
Currencies: USD 2
Billed: Hourly, Monthly2
Paid: In arrears, for usage already run up2
Free tier: Permanent2

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Northflank runs long-lived services, cron jobs, build pipelines and managed databases from a single console. Compute is billed per vCPU-hour and gigabyte-hour with per-second granularity and no per-seat charge, and GPU instances are rented by the hour alongside the CPU ones. A permanent free sandbox tier covers a small number of services, jobs and one database.

The distinguishing choice is where the work runs. The same platform will use Northflank’s own managed cloud, deploy into the customer’s account at one of the large public clouds, or drive a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster — which turns the question of who owns the infrastructure into a per-project setting rather than a decision made when signing up. That is why the record carries two infrastructure contracts rather than one.

Worth knowing

Bring-your-own-cloud shifts the infrastructure bill to the customer’s cloud account, so the Northflank price and the total cost are separate numbers. The headline region count belongs to those underlying clouds rather than to Northflank, and its own managed region list names a country or city for only some entries; the regions recorded here are the ones that do.

Identity

Reach: ↑803 1
Ownership: VC-backed
Status: Active

Deployment

Deployment: Git, Container image

Regions and law

Regions: United States, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, India, Australia 3
Headquarters: United Kingdom

Other features

Collaboration: Team members5
Staging: Included4

Automation

CLI: Official
API: Public

Sources

2026-09-07: Reach
majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
2026-08-01: Starting price, Entry price, Typical ceiling, Currencies, Billed, Paid, Pricing model, Free tier, Metal
northflank.com/pricing
2026-08-01: Regions
northflank.com/docs/v1/application/getting-started/create-a-project
2026-08-12: Staging
northflank.com
2026-08-12: Collaboration
northflank.com/docs

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