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Ranked #2 of 10 · 85 / 100

Northflank

Containers, jobs and databases on Northflank's cloud or in your own.

Vendor-hosted or your cloud northflank.com

Last reviewed

Verdict: The most flexible option here, strong on both hosting models and on GPUs; compliance paperwork comes through its enterprise tier.

Best fitTeams that want to start vendor-hosted and move into their own VPC later without switching platforms, and AI teams that want GPUs across several clouds from one place.
Not forTeams that need SOC 2 and HIPAA paperwork on a self-serve plan, or that want the fewest possible concepts to learn.

Strengths

  • Both hosting models: Northflank Cloud, or bring your own cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, bare metal).
  • Published per-second rates, with no seat fees.
  • GPUs on its own cloud (NVIDIA L4 up to B200 listed) and any GPU your cloud offers in BYOC.
  • A free Sandbox tier that includes one BYOC cluster.

Limits

  • SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and ISO 27001 are presented under its enterprise offer.
  • Broad feature set (services, jobs, add-ons, pipelines) means more to learn than the simplest platforms.
  • In BYOC mode you pay Northflank per node vCPU and your cloud provider for the nodes.

What it costs

Free Sandbox; pay as you go from $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and $0.00833 per GB-hour on Northflank Cloud; BYOC at $0.02083 per node vCPU-hour plus your cloud bill. GPUs on Northflank Cloud from $0.80 an hour (L4).

On the criteria

Where apps run (25)StrongNorthflank Cloud, or fully managed clusters in your own VPC on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle or bare metal.
Compliance (20)GoodSOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and ISO 27001 listed in its enterprise section; no public price for that tier.
GPU support (15)StrongGPU rates published for its cloud; in BYOC, any GPU your cloud offers at $1.00 per GB of VRAM per month.
Cost model (15)StrongPer-second usage billing with published rates and no seat fees, on its cloud and in BYOC.
Ease of exit (15)GoodWorkloads are standard containers; in BYOC the cluster is in your account. It does not publish what keeps running if you leave.
Operations handled (10)GoodBuilds, deploys, previews, logs and autoscaling are handled; more configuration surface than push-and-forget platforms.
Score85 / 100Rank 2 of 10. How the score is worked out.

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