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Paid plans start at $12/mo. There's also a free plan.
Northflank has a free Sandbox, but its $12 starting price is for a small compute plan, not a flat paid subscription. The Sandbox includes two services, two jobs and one database, with up to $20/month of Northflank Cloud resources. Pay as you go starts at $0.01667 per vCPU-hour, with billing by the second and no seat fees. Add storage, network, or GPU use separately; the pricing page lists no annual billing option.
01Every plan, line by line
| Plan | Billed annually | Billed monthly | Built for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbox | — | $0 | Trying Northflank or small workloads |
| Pay as you go | — | Quote | Teams scaling workloads with usage |
| Enterprise | — | Quote | Organizations needing enterprise controls |
Add-ons and overages
- Compute plan nf-compute-50: $12/month (0.5 vCPU, 1 GB); page lists four other compute plans from $24 to $192/month
- Northflank Cloud CPU: $0.01667/vCPU/hour; memory: $0.00833/GB/hour
- Persistent disk: $0.11657/GiB/month; first 3,000 IOPS and 140 MiB/s per disk included
- Additional IOPS: $7.37/1,000 IOPS/month; additional throughput: $5.85/100 MiB/s/month
- Network egress: $0.06/GB; ingress free; egress gateway: $15/month
- Northflank Cloud GPUs: $0.80–$5.87/hour, depending on GPU
- BYOC GPU fee: $1/GB VRAM/month; cloud provider bills GPU itself
02What the plan grid doesn't tell you
Compute is separate
The nf-compute-50 plan is $12/month for 0.5 vCPU and 1 GB; four other listed compute plans cost $24–$192/month.
Memory and CPU usage
Northflank Cloud CPU is $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and memory is $0.00833 per GB-hour.
Storage and network
Persistent disk is $0.11657/GiB/month. Egress is $0.06/GB; an egress gateway is $15/month. Extra IOPS and throughput cost more.
GPU costs vary
Northflank Cloud GPUs cost $0.80–$5.87/hour. BYOC adds a $1/GB VRAM/month Northflank fee, while your cloud provider bills the GPU itself.
03Which plan should you buy?
| If you are… | Get | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Trying it or running small workloads | Sandbox | It costs $0 and includes two services, two jobs, one database, and up to $20/month of Northflank Cloud resources. |
| Scaling usage-based workloads | Pay as you go | It starts at $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and includes unlimited users, deployments, and workloads. |
| Need enterprise controls | Enterprise | It offers custom pricing plus options including SAML, SCIM, audit logging, and deployment in your VPC or on-premises. |
04Is Northflank worth the money?
Northflank’s value case is breadth: one platform covers app deployments, managed databases, coding agents, and GPU workloads, with options for Northflank Cloud, your VPC, or your own hardware. The free Sandbox makes it possible to start without a subscription, but variable infrastructure charges make costs harder to forecast than a fixed per-seat plan. We’d check projected usage and investigate the security allegations raised on Reddit before committing sensitive workloads; the published material doesn’t establish their validity.
Northflank pricing FAQ
Is Northflank free?
Yes. The Sandbox plan is $0/month and includes two services, two jobs, one database, unlimited users, and up to $20/month of Northflank Cloud resources. It also lists one BYOC cluster, capped at 12 vCPU and 48 GB. Usage beyond included resources may add costs.
What is Northflank used for?
Northflank runs coding agents, apps, and production workloads. Its listed capabilities include isolated microVM sandboxes, remote coding agents with persistent storage, app deployments from Git or container images, managed databases, and GPU workloads. It can run on Northflank Cloud, in your cloud, or on your hardware.
How much does Northflank cost?
There is a free Sandbox. The listed nf-compute-50 plan costs $12/month for 0.5 vCPU and 1 GB, while Pay as you go starts at $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Storage, network egress, and GPUs have separate rates, so total cost depends on usage.
Does Northflank charge per user?
The pricing page lists unlimited users for both Sandbox and Pay as you go, and says there are no seat fees. Pay as you go is billed by the second based on usage. The page lists no annual billing option; Enterprise pricing is custom.