Northflank

Container platform, no seat fees

Free tier + paidHosting, deploy & edgenorthflank.com

What it is

Container and microservice platform that builds from Git or a Dockerfile, with managed Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, GPUs, job runners and preview environments. The free sandbox runs two always-on services that never spin down, and teams are included free — nothing is charged per seat.

Why it earns a slot

A free tier that stays warm, so a hobby API answers instantly, plus per-second compute pricing that stays sane as you scale. Bring-your-own-cloud keeps the same UI while running inside your own AWS or GCP account.

Know before you commit

Egress at $0.06/GB is pricier than Fly or DigitalOcean, so front static assets with Cloudflare or Bunny. The free sandbox has fixed small resources and is not intended for production traffic; GPU instances bill from $0.80 per hour and add up fast.

Getting started

Connect the repo in the dashboard, or use the Northflank CLI/API

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Pricing snapshot

Free sandbox: 2 services, 1 database, 2 cron jobs, always-on with no sleeping. Pay-as-you-go from $0/mo: $0.01667 per vCPU-hour, $0.00833 per GB RAM-hour, egress $0.06/GB (ingress free), SSD $0.15/GB-month. No per-seat pricing on any tier.

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Evaluate Northflank (https://northflank.com) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Container platform, no seat fees. Container and microservice platform that builds from Git or a Dockerfile, with managed Postgres, Redis, MongoDB, GPUs, job runners and preview environments. The free sandbox runs two always-on services that never spin down, and teams are included free — nothing is charged per seat.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): A free tier that stays warm, so a hobby API answers instantly, plus per-second compute pricing that stays sane as you scale. Bring-your-own-cloud keeps the same UI while running inside your own AWS or GCP account.
Watch out for: Egress at $0.06/GB is pricier than Fly or DigitalOcean, so front static assets with Cloudflare or Bunny. The free sandbox has fixed small resources and is not intended for production traffic; GPU instances bill from $0.80 per hour and add up fast.
Pricing: Free sandbox: 2 services, 1 database, 2 cron jobs, always-on with no sleeping. Pay-as-you-go from $0/mo: $0.01667 per vCPU-hour, $0.00833 per GB RAM-hour, egress $0.06/GB (ingress free), SSD $0.15/GB-month. No per-seat pricing on any tier.
Setup: Connect the repo in the dashboard, or use the Northflank CLI/API
Rules: treat the notes above as background only. Do not assume a theme, style, layout or feature that is not already in this project — inspect the existing code first and ask me before changing visual direction.

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