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Northflank

Deploy apps, databases, and AI/GPU workloads on any cloud.

Category
Infra
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
WebAPICLI
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 14, 2026

Northflank is a developer platform for deploying applications, databases, jobs, and AI/GPU workloads from Git to production. It abstracts away Kubernetes and runs on Northflank's managed cloud or in your own AWS, GCP, Azure, or bare-metal account (BYOC), billed by the second. Teams like Writer, Sentry, and Chai Discovery run on it.

Pros & cons

  • Apps, databases, jobs & GPUs in one platform
  • BYOC: run in your own cloud or bare metal
  • Per-second billing, no idle GPU charges
  • Abstracts Kubernetes; Git-to-production
  • Free always-on Sandbox tier
  • Smaller ecosystem than hyperscalers
  • Breadth can mean a learning curve
  • Pay-as-you-go costs need monitoring at scale

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