Northflank

northflank.com · Compute, Egress and tunnels · 2 records · JSON

Northflank Computefails: identitycardcardDwrite-gated
Northflank Egress and tunnelsfails: quotaemailno cardDvolume-quota

Northflank Compute

fails: identitycardcardDwrite-gated

northflank.com/pricing · platform host · compute/northflank · JSON · compare

Free tier	Sandbox plan at USD 0: 'Up to $20/mo of resources on Northflank Cloud', '2 services, 2 jobs, and 1 database', 'Always on, no sleeping', plus '1 BYOC cluster, up to 12 vCPU and 48 GB'. unit mixed; metered on wall-clock
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	2 services, 2 jobs and 1 database; no cap on a single service's size beyond the USD 20 monthly resource allowance
Retention	resources persist while the plan holds; the free allowance resets monthly and nothing states a deletion on exhaustion
Egress	Network egress USD 0.06 per GB, ingress free. The free plan publishes no separate egress allowance, so the inference recorded here is that egress is drawn from the same USD 20 resource allowance; the pricing page does not say so in as many words.
Identity	card A payment method is required for every plan: the billing documentation states 'all users must add a payment method to start creating resources on Northflank, regardless of plan selection'. The Sandbox plan card carries a 'No card needed' badge and the pricing FAQ answers 'when you enter a card we only verify the card', so the same page both advertises and presupposes a card. No hold amount is stated.
Limits	volume-quota USD 20 a month of resources; the cheapest compute plan is nf-compute-50 at USD 12.00 a month source per-ip-shaping egress USD 0.06 per GB with no free egress allowance stated source per-object-cap 2 services, 2 jobs, 1 database source A card entered for the paid tier is only verified: 'No — when you enter a card we only verify the card. Your card is only charged at the end of the billing cycle.' No hold amount is stated.
Binding	write-gated the card requirement is the first thing that fails: it is universal and it blocks the first service, whatever the plan.
Interface	ssh git deploy, a public endpoint, a CLI and an API
Tooling	the Northflank CLI and API, Docker and buildpacks, a managed database
Composes with	a container platform where the free tier never sleeps, and the card is the price of entry
Reliability	no reliability event observed the free tier is described as always-on, which is why the unresolved card question matters
Notes	Arithmetic: 730 h x (0.5 x USD 0.01667 + 1 x USD 0.00833) = USD 12.17 a month for an always-on 0.5 vCPU / 1 GB service, leaving USD 7.83 = 130 GB of egress at USD 0.06/GB if egress draws on the same allowance, which is inferred and not stated. What would settle the card question is a signup attempt that stops before payment: the pricing page says none is needed, the docs say one is. The 'No card needed' badge on the pricing page is refuted by the billing docs and by the page's own FAQ, which presupposes a card. The USD 20 a month of resources is real and sits behind the card. A 2026-10-24 re-read also found the plan is 'Always on, no sleeping', which is the only free-tier-shaped offer in this market that does not sleep, and 730 h x (0.5 x 0.01667 + 1 x 0.00833) = USD 12.17 of the allowance.
Evidence rung	documented plan contents, rates and the cheapest plan read on the pricing page today; the card requirement is documented on two first-party pages that disagree
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
Parsed numbers	`$.extras.m10h_usd` price USD0.0 / month `$.extras.m24h_usd` price USD0.0 / month

Evidence (7)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-23	northflank.com/pricing	quoted: 'Up to $20/mo of resources on Northflank Cloud', 'Always on, no sleeping', 'No card needed'
2026-10-23	northflank.com/pricing	quoted plan rows: nf-compute-50 0.5 vCPU/1 GB $0.01667/h $12.00/mo; nf-compute-100-2 1 vCPU/2 GB $0.03333/h $24.00/mo; nf-compute-200 2 vCPU/4 GB $0.06667/h $48.00/mo
2026-10-24	northflank.com/pricing	quoted: 'No card needed', 'Up to $20/mo of resources on Northflank Cloud', 'Always on, no sleeping', 'CPU $0.01667/ vCPU / hour', 'Memory $0.00833/ GB / hour', 'nf-compute-400 ... 4 vCPU · 8 GB ... $0.13 ... $96.00'.
2026-10-24	northflank.com/pricing	quoted: 'Am I charged when I enter my credit card? No — when you enter a card we only verify the card. Your card is only charged at the end of the billing cycle.' and 'Payments are handled by Stripe and we accept Visa, Mastercard, and American Express.'
2026-10-24	northflank.com/pricing	quoted: 'Free / No card needed / 2 services, 2 jobs, and 1 database / Up to $20/mo of resources on Northflank Cloud / Always on, no sleeping'
2026-10-24	northflank.com/pricing	quoted: 'nf-compute-50 ... 0.5 vCPU 1 GB ... $0.01667 ... $12.00'; 'Network egress ... $0.06/ GB'; CPU $0.01667/vCPU/hour, memory $0.00833/GB/hour
2026-10-24	northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/pricing-on-northf	quoted: 'all users must add a payment method to start creating resources on Northflank, regardless of plan selection. This is to verify user identity'

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  "ram_gib": 1,
  "disk_gib": null,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "billing_model": "monthly-allowance",
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "the vendor states 'Always on, no sleeping'"
 },
 "keep_rate": null,
 "persistent_storage": {
  "included_gib": null,
  "price_gib_month": "USD 0.15 per GB-month for persistent SSD",
  "durability": "pausing deletes ephemeral data",
  "survives_stop": true,
  "survives_destroy": false,
  "max_retention": "while the service exists"
 },
 "network_out": {
  "allow_outbound": true,
  "allow_inbound_listen": true,
  "ports": "the service's HTTP port plus TCP/UDP ports for non-HTTP services",
  "static_ip": false,
  "ipv6": false,
  "per_session_bytes": null
 },
 "free_tier_kind": "monthly-resource-allowance",
 "census_rows": [
  "northflank-sandbox"
 ],
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  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "burst_x": 1.0,
 "ps": {
  "gib": null,
  "price": "volumes and persistence are available on the plan",
  "durability": "volume",
  "on_stop": true,
  "on_destroy": false,
  "retention": "until deleted"
 },
 "net": null,
 "shape_smallest": {
  "vcpu": 0.5,
  "ram_gib": 1
 },
 "term": "monthly",
 "m10h_usd": 0.0,
 "m24h_usd": 0.0,
 "price_arithmetic": "free within the USD 20 monthly resource allowance; the 0.5 vCPU / 1 GB shape consumes USD 12.17 a month of it at the published per-second rates",
 "credit_usd": 20,
 "credit_months_at_shape": 0.21,
 "credit_hours_at_shape": 153.8,
 "credit_expiry": "monthly; unused allowance does not accumulate"
}

Corrections

2026-10-23 The credit ladder was widened to twenty, and nine more claims moved

Northflank Egress and tunnels

fails: quotaemailno cardDvolume-quota

northflank.com/docs/v1/application/network/configure-load-ba · paas l4 port · egress/northflank · JSON · compare

Free tier	Up to $20 a month of free resources on Northflank Cloud, across 2 services, 2 jobs, and 1 database. unit mixed; metered on unstated
Price	USD 0
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	Free Sandbox is a $20/month resource credit; network egress is $0.06/GB for everyone, so the credit buys at most 333 GB of egress if nothing else is spent.; ingress: tcp+udp free_allowance: none published
Identity	email "Sandbox Free No card needed".
Limits	volume-quota $20/month of resources; egress $0.06/GB source
Binding	volume-quota $20 of credit at $0.06/GB is 333 GB, 0.30 TiB, and only if no compute is spent. 1 TiB of egress alone would cost $61.44/month.
Interface	rest, cli "Load balancers can be included in Northflank templates for infrastructure as code" plus a REST API.
Tooling	Dashboard, API, and template YAML (kind: LoadBalancer); point an A record at the provisioned IP.
Composes with	A Northflank UDP load balancer in front of a wg-quick sidecar gives a stable endpoint; the $20 credit and $0.06/GB egress cap the volume, not the protocol.
Reliability	"Updating a load balancer triggers re-provisioning. There may be a brief traffic interruption during the update." Backends must be running, not paused.
Notes	The most capable L4 product technically, and the least clear commercially: the pricing page prices an egress gateway ($15/gateway/month) but never prices the load balancer, and the plan matrix has no load-balancer row. Treat free-tier LB access as open, not as granted.
Evidence rung	documented Whether the free Sandbox may create an L4 load balancer is not stated on any page read; that, and a live UDP probe on a provisioned IP, are what would settle it.
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers	`$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD0.0 TB / month

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-23	northflank.com/docs/v1/application/network/configure-load-ba	L4 load balancers route "external TCP or UDP traffic", stable public IP, up to 100 ports, no rate limiting
2026-10-23	northflank.com/pricing	Free Sandbox: $20/month of resources, 2 services, no card; network egress $0.06/GB
2026-10-23	northflank.com/docs/v1/application/network/configure-ports	"Only HTTP and HTTP/2 ports can be publicly exposed. TCP and UDP service ports require a separate Layer 4 load balancer"

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 "wg_path": "inside-udp",
 "wg_detail": "A team-level Layer 4 load balancer with Protocol: TCP or UDP, a stable public IP once Provisioned, up to 100 ports, no TLS termination and no rate limiting.",
 "ingress": "tcp+udp",
 "volume_tib_month": null,
 "volume_stated": "Free Sandbox is a $20/month resource credit; network egress is $0.06/GB for everyone, so the credit buys at most 333 GB of egress if nothing else is spent.",
 "bytes_transit": "yes",
 "transit_note": "Northflank's cloud provisions the L4 balancer; the datagrams land on the client's service."
}

Unknown or withheld values (2)

$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.retention.stated not-applicable