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Scanned 7 Oct 2026 · Schema v5 · features v21
- From
- Free
Usage-based, billed per second (prorated) on Northflank Cloud: vCPU + memory + GPU + disk + egress. Predefined compute plans are priced per container. No seat pricing ('Teams included for free'). Tiers: Sandbox (free), Pay-as-you-go, Enterprise (custom, invoice, annual commit). BYOC adds no per-resource Northflank compute charge.
- Free tier
- Yes
Yes: 'Sandbox' tier ('for testing and building trust with Northflank'): always-on compute (no sleeping), 2 free services, 1 free database, 2 free cron jobs, 2 projects, limited compute; free projects support one Cloud Harness.
- Isolation
- Kata / gVisor
hardened or user-space kernel
- Regions
- 17
EMEA (africa-south) · Asia Pacific (asia-east) · Asia Pacific (asia-northeast) · Asia Pacific (asia-south-delhi) · Asia Pacific (asia-southeast) · Asia Pacific (australia-southeast) +11
- Capabilities
- 30 / 61
12 partial · 19 fail · 0 not assessed
- Agent readiness
- 9/11 · 8.5/11
read · drive, pre-login surface
Advertised for
Services (long running, combined/build/deployment) · Jobs (one off + cron) · Addons / managed databases + queues (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Memcached) and object storage buckets · Sandboxes (microVM, untrusted / agent code, sub second boot) · Cloud Harness coding agent workspaces · GPU workloads (inference, training, notebooks) · Preview environments · Workflows / release flows · Volumes
Built for
Developers, then technical
- · API / CLI / JS + Python SDK / GitOps / Dockerfile-first onboarding
- · microVM, Kata, gVisor, BYOC, Kubernetes, VPC vocabulary
- · usage-metered per-second pricing with compute plans
01 Pricing Usage-based, billed per second (prorated) on Northflank Cloud: vCPU + memory + GPU + disk + egress. Predefined compute plans are priced per container. No seat pricing ('Teams included for free'). Tiers: Sandbox (free), Pay-as-you-go, Enterprise (custom, invoice, annual commit). BYOC adds no per-resource Northflank compute charge.
| Tier | EntrySandbox (free) | Pay-as-you-go | TopEnterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0/mo | from $0/mo + usage | custom |
| Includes | 2 services, 2 jobs, 1 addon, 2 projects, limited compute, always-on; 1 Cloud Harness | Unlimited projects/services/jobs/addons/users; usage per second: vCPU $0.01667/hr, memory $0.00833/GB/hr, disk $0.15/GB-mo, egress $0.06/GB; GPUs L4 $0.80/hr -> RTX PRO 6000 $3.00/hr; 6+ cloud regions, 600 BYOC regions | Run in your VPC, 24/7 support + SLA, FDE onboarding, SSO SAML/OIDC, audit logs, global backups + HA/DR, white-label, BYO registry/Vault/DNS, self-deployable control plane, HIPAA BAA, invoice billing, volume discounts, annual commitment |
| Transfer overage | — | $0.06/GB | — |
| Storage overage | — | $0.15/GB | — |
| vCPU hours overage | — | $0.01667/h | — |
| Memory gb hours overage | — | $0.00833/h | — |
Free tier: Yes: 'Sandbox' tier ('for testing and building trust with Northflank'): always-on compute (no sleeping), 2 free services, 1 free database, 2 free cron jobs, 2 projects, limited compute; free projects support one Cloud Harness.
per vCPU-hour + per GB-memory-hour + per GPU-hour + per GB-month disk + per GB egress·Card required: No·northflank.com
Overages: vCPU $0.01667/hr; memory $0.00833/GB/hr; disk (SSD/HDD) $0.15/GB-mo; egress $0.06/GB (ingress free; cross-zone $0.02/GB with zonal redundancy). GPUs: L4 $0.80, A100-40 $1.42, A100-80 $1.76, H100 $2.74, RTX PRO 6000 $3.00 per hour. The June read's 'builds & backups $0.08/GB-mo' and 'logs & metrics $0.20/GB (first 10 GB free)' lines are no longer on the page.
02 Runtime Each fact carries its source; dots show confidence. Open a row for the evidence.
Isolation & lifecycle
Resources & limits
Access
Network & secrets
Placement & use
03 Capabilities 30 pass · 12 partial · 19 fail · 61 of 61 assessed
- Supported — Documented on the public surface and verified.
- Partially supported — Exists with caveats: gated, thin, or enterprise-only.
- Not supported — Checked and not offered.
- Not assessed — Scanned before this capability was tracked. Not a lack.
Compute & storage 6/11
Networking & delivery 6/9
Developer access 6/10
AI & agents 3/12
Data 1/4
Platform & operations 3/6
Organisation & security 5/9
Proposed, not verified
Capabilities the scan saw but the registry does not track yet. A key is admitted only once two distinct products exhibit it. These are not scored.
- Customer-managed envelope encryption (BYO cloud KMS key)customer-managed-encryption-keys
“You can now use your own cloud KMS key to wrap encryption keys, or opt into Northflank-managed envelope encryption.” northflank.com
04 Agent readiness Pre-login surface · counts, not a grade
Can an agent read it?
parse-ability · docs, metadata, machine-readable surfaces
9/11
8 full · 2 partial · 82% of applicable checks
- llms.txtSupported
- llms-full.txtPartially supported
- robots.txt AI policyPartially supported
- JSON-LDNot supported
- SitemapSupported
- Meta tagsSupported
- Markdown negotiationSupported
- Content efficiencySupported
- Docs discoverableSupported
- Machine-readable pricingSupported
- No anti-bot wallSupported
Can an agent drive it?
act-ability · APIs, SDKs, MCP, credentials, webhooks
8.5/11
7 full · 3 partial · 77% of applicable checks
- Public APISupported
- OpenAPI specSupported
- MCP serverNot supported
- SDK packagesSupported
- Auth documentedSupported
- Self-serve credentialsPartially supported
- WebhooksSupported
- CLI toolSupported
- Error modelPartially supported
- Rate limits documentedSupported
- Agent config filesPartially supported
05 Coding harnesses Which agents and IDEs are documented to run here
Advertised integrations 6
- Claude Code AnthropicSupported
- Codex CLI OpenAISupported
- Cursor AnysphereSupported
- OpenCode opencodeSupported
Pi earendil-works
Supported- Windsurf CodeiumSupported
Plausible compatibility 11
Derived, not stored: the product passes SSH access, so any CLI coding agent is installable inside it. This is plausible compatibility, not a supported integration.
AiderAmp
Antigravity
Devin
Droid
- Gemini CLI
Goose
Hermes AgentKilo Code
Kiro CLI
Qwen Code
06 Compliance & regions Standards held, with ordinal rigor; never a score
Certifications held 2
- SOC 2 Type IIcertifiedhosted
- HIPAAenterprise-onlyhostedNEW since 2026-06-05, when the same page read 'HIPAA: No'. No certifying body for HIPAA; usable for PHI only with an Enterprise BAA.
Regions 17
- EMEA (africa-south)Africa South
- Asia Pacific (asia-east)Asia East
- Asia Pacific (asia-northeast)Asia Northeast
- Asia Pacific (asia-south-delhi)Asia South Delhi
- Asia Pacific (asia-southeast)Asia Southeast
- Asia Pacific (australia-southeast)Australia Southeast
- Americas (canada-central)Canada Central
- EMEA (europe-west)Europe West
- EMEA (europe-west-frankfurt)Europe West Frankfurt
- EMEA (europe-west-netherlands)Europe West Netherlands
- EMEA (europe-west-zurich)Europe West Zurich
- Americas (southamerica-east)Southamerica East
- Americas (us-central)US Central
- Americas (us-east-ohio)US East Ohio
- Americas (us-east1)US East1
- Americas (us-west)US West
- Americas (us-west-california)US West California
17 Northflank Cloud regions (API ids in parentheses), region fixed per project; free-tier worker clusters on Azure, paid on GCP; control plane GCP London/Amsterdam. GPU availability varies by region (e.g. L4 in Netherlands, H100 in Frankfurt, RTX PRO in US West). Plus BYOC into any AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle/CoreWeave/Civo/Nebius region ('6+ cloud regions, 600 BYOC regions', '330+ availability zones').
07 Company & presence Facts only, not scored
Company
- Headquarters
- London, UK (20-22 Wenlock Road, N1 7GU)
- Founded
- 2019 (company formed 1 April 2019; 'running microVMs in production since 2021' per the 2026-05 intel)
- Team size
- Not disclosed. Platform metrics: 'Millions of containers', '130B+ requests processed', '100k+ developers in production' (was '80k+' in June), '330+ availability zones', 'Trusted by 2,000+ start-ups and enterprises'.
Activity
- Last release
- Changelog 'August & September 2026' published 24 Sep 2026 (Harnesses, BYOC microVMs, container snapshots, BYO-KMS encryption, Delhi region); PyPI northflank 2.0.0 on 2026-09-22; skills repo pushed 2026-09-16. northflank.com
- Last blog post
- Several posts dated 6 Oct 2026 (e.g. 'How to run AI coding agents in AWS', 'Best microVM sandboxes for AI coding agents in 2026'). northflank.com
Presence 12
- GitHub
- X / Twitter
- Blog
- Changelog
- Guides
- Stack templates
- Status
- Trust Center
- Docs
- skills.sh
- PyPI
- npm
Links found on the public surface scanned; not an exhaustive search.
08 Sources & method How this entry was produced
Public surface only
Everything here was read from northflank.com's unauthenticated pages, docs, pricing and repository on 7 Oct 2026. Nothing behind a login was used.
Statuses, not scores
Capabilities are pass, partial or fail against a written rubric (features v21). “Not assessed” means the scan predates the key.
Confidence is separate
Each fact carries its own confidence. Low-confidence facts are shown, never hidden, so you can weigh them.
- Schema
- scan v5
- Features registry
- v21
- Keys tracked today
- 61
- Assessed on this entry
- 61