Northflank pricing 2026: plans and costs
Quick pricing summary
- Sandbox Free: $0 month
- Pay as you go: $0.017 vCPU hour
- Enterprise: Custom (custom)
- Worth noting: Sandbox includes up to $20/mo of free resources on Northflank Cloud plus one BYOC cluster up to 12 vCPU and 48 GB; your cloud provider still bills that infrastructure. Pricing is billed by the second in USD. Enterprise pricing is custom.
Plans
Sandbox Free
$0 month
- 2 services, 2 jobs, and 1 database
- Up to $20/mo of resources on Northflank Cloud
- 1 BYOC cluster, up to 12 vCPU and 48 GB
- Always on, no sleeping
Pay as you go
$0.017 vCPU hour
- Unlimited users, deployments, and workloads
- Northflank Cloud, or your own cloud billed per node vCPU
- GPUs, autoscaling, RBAC, and the Platform SDK
Enterprise
Custom custom
- Your VPC, on premises, or air-gapped
- SAML, SCIM, and audit logging
- Custom SLA and a dedicated Slack channel
- White labelling, and bring your own tooling
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Sandbox Free | Pay as you go | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Services | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Jobs | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Addons (databases) | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Compute | Limited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Cloud providers | 1 | All | All |
| Teams users | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Sandboxing (microVMs and gVisor) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hidden costs & add-ons
| Cost driver | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Persistent disk (NVMe) | $0.11657 / GiB / month | Addon and service volumes on Northflank Cloud |
| Additional IOPS | $7.37 / 1,000 IOPS / month | Beyond first 3,000 IOPS per disk |
| Egress gateway dedicated IP | $15.00 / gateway / month | Static IP egress gateway |
| GPUs on BYOC | $1.00 / GB VRAM / month | Northflank fee on GPUs in your own cloud; provider bills the GPU |
Northflank pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northflank | Free; paid from $0.017 / mo | Yes | Usage-based | — | |
| GitLab | Free; paid from $29 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | Scaling development teams and enterprises that need advanced security and compliance capabilities | Compare → |
| GitHub | Free; paid from $4 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | Development teams, from individuals to enterprises, that build, review, and ship software on one platform. | Compare → |
| Buildkite | Free; paid from $30 per seat / mo | Yes | Per seat | Engineering teams that want CI to run on their own infrastructure and need it to scale to large build volumes | Compare → |
| Jenkins | — | — | — | Developers who need to build, test and deploy software reliably | Compare → |
List prices as published on northflank.com/pricing. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.