Northflank free tier includes Build and deploy microservices, jobs, and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI… Verified October 2026. Compare with 29 alternatives in Cloud Hosting.

Northflank Free Tier 2026

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Northflank's free tier offers Build and deploy microservices, jobs, and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI… It's stable — the change we last considered recording restated the terms we already publish. Best for cloud hosting workloads — 29 alternatives available.

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Build and deploy microservices, jobs, and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI. Seamlessly scale containers from version control and external Docker registries. The free Sandbox includes 2 services, 2 jobs and 1 database, up to $20 a month of resources on Northflank Cloud, 1 BYOC cluster up to 12 vCPU and 48 GB, always on with no sleeping.

Northflank runs its own MCP server. "Connect your coding agent to Northflank to deploy applications, manage databases, and inspect resources." (From https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/ai-agents/mcp-server.md, read 2026-10-30.) The endpoint is https://mcp.northflank.com/mcp, the transport is Streamable HTTP, and authentication uses the Northflank CLI login, which the command "nf agent setup" connects, or a team API token in the header "Authorization: Bearer <token>"; Northflank MCP does not support OAuth login.

We read that on 2026-10-28 from https://northflank.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Northflank as "northflank" and states "$20".

From northflank.com/pricing, read 2026-10-28:

Sandbox Free No card needed Start free 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

Northflank's pricing page lists the free Sandbox as "No card needed". (From northflank.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.)
Northflank's billing docs still say all users must add a payment method to start creating resources, regardless of plan. (From northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/pricing-on-northflank, read 2026-10-23.)
Northflank says the free Developer Sandbox is for exploring the platform, hobby projects and testing ideas, and should not be used for production applications. (From northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/pricing-on-northflank, read 2026-10-04.)
Pay as you go on Northflank Cloud: CPU $0.01667 per vCPU per hour; memory $0.00833 per GB per hour (the smallest plan, 0.1 vCPU and 256 MB, is $2.70 a month); persistent disk $0.11657 per GiB per month; network egress $0.06 per GB. GPUs per hour: NVIDIA L4 $0.80; A100 40GB $1.42; A100 80GB $1.76; H100 80GB $2.74; RTX PRO 6000 $3.00; H200 $3.14; B200 $5.87. (From northflank.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.)

When You'll Outgrow Northflank's Free Tier

At 1 database, you'll need to upgrade.
At that point, the 29 alternatives in Cloud Hosting are each listed with the free tier they offer, so you can compare what they give you against what you have outgrown.

Pricing Change History (0 recorded)

No recorded pricing changes for Northflank. This is a good sign — stable pricing.

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Alternatives in Cloud Hosting

How Northflank compares against every one of the 29 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service	Free Tier	Stability
Northflank	Free	stable
Apply.build	Free Build and deploy your GitHub app for free with 0.5 vCPUs / 512 MiB RAM, European servers, automatic firewall, real-time performance metrics. Run Node.js, Python, Go, Java, static sites, microservices, and more.	stable
PandaStack	Free Free tier with $5.40/mo usage credit. No card.	unrated — change unconfirmed
leapcell	Free Serverless platform for web services, APIs and background jobs. The free Hobby plan ($0 per seat a month) includes 20 projects with up to 3 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM each, 1 free PostgreSQL database, and each month 100,000 serverless invocations, 3 GB-hours of serverless duration, 10,000 async…	stable
Vercel	Hobby Hobby plan, $0 a month, for non-commercial personal use only. Includes 100 GB Fast Data Transfer, 1M Edge Requests, 1M Function Invocations, 4 hours Fluid Active CPU, 360 GB-hrs Fluid Provisioned Memory, 1 GB Blob Storage and 5K image transformations a month.	stable
Google Cloud Run	Always Free Always Free: 2M requests/month, 360K GB-seconds memory, 180K vCPU-seconds compute, 1 GB North America egress. Fully managed serverless containers.	unrated
Val Town	Free Serverless scripting platform, shutting down on January 10, 2027, with no new signups since November 10, 2026. Free plan for existing users: 100K runs/day, 1 minute wall clock per run, unlimited public vals, MCP integration Val Town is winding down: new signups and plan upgrades ended on November 10, 2026, Val Town becomes read-only on December 10, 2026 (except SQLite and blob storage), and all other services end on January 10, 2027. Billing is paused, and existing subscriptions continue free until then. (From blog.val.town/winding-down, read 2026-11-11.)	stable
surge.sh	Free Static web publishing for Front-End developers. Unlimited sites with custom domain support	stable
Railway	Free Free $0 per month. Start with a 30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1 of free credit per month.	stable
Cloudflare Pages	Free Up to 100 projects, unlimited bandwidth, 500 builds/month, 100 custom domains per project. The project limit is not routinely increased. Cloudflare recommends starting new projects on Workers, its primary platform for building applications. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages, read 2026-10-06.) Pages Functions and Workers requests share a daily free limit of 100,000 that resets at midnight UTC. Static asset requests are free and unlimited. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/pricing, read 2026-10-06.) At the daily limit, fail open serves static assets without Functions. Fail closed returns an error page. Each project chooses one mode. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/routing, read 2026-10-06.) On the Free plan, one build runs at a time per account. Builds time out after 20 minutes. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.) Cloudflare's terms prohibit processing or collecting credit card information on any site using its free services. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-06.) Cloudflare's subscription agreement's list of restrictions does not include commercial use. The only restriction specific to free services bars processing or collecting credit card information on the site. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-29.) Cloudflare's subscription agreement bars signing up for the services on behalf of a third party unless Cloudflare permits it in writing. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-29.) Cloudflare may change a project's pages.dev subdomain for any reason, and aims to give at least a week's notice. Custom domains are not affected. (From cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-developer-platform, read 2026-10-06.) Cloudflare Pages' free plan needs no credit card. (From cloudflare.com/products/pages, read 2026-10-22.) The Free plan allows up to 20,000 files per site. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.) Paid plans such as Pro, Business and Enterprise allow up to 100,000 files per site once the environment variable PAGES_WRANGLER_MAJOR_VERSION=4 is set in the Pages project's settings. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.) The maximum file size is 25 MiB. Larger files can be served from R2 public buckets. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.) Pages Functions requests are billed as Workers requests. The Workers Paid plan has a $5 minimum monthly charge per account. It includes 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds per month. Overages are $0.30 per million requests and $0.02 per million CPU milliseconds. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) Cloudflare's Pro and Business plans raise Pages' limits. Pro allows 5 concurrent builds, 5,000 builds per month and 250 custom domains per project. Business allows 20 concurrent builds, 20,000 builds per month and 500 custom domains per project. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.) Cloudflare's Pro plan costs $20 per month billed annually, or $25 billed monthly. Business costs $200 per month billed annually, or $250 billed monthly. (From cloudflare.com/plans, read 2026-10-29.)	stable
GitHub Pages	Free Static site hosting — 1 GB published site size, 100 GB bandwidth/month, 10 builds/hour. Included with all GitHub accounts GitHub Pages needs no credit card: a GitHub account with a verified email address is enough to start. (From docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/how-tos/account-management/creating-an-account-on-github, read 2026-10-22.)	stable
dAppling Network	Free Decentralized web hosting platform for Web3 frontends focusing on increasing uptime and security and providing an additional access point for users.	stable
Neocities	Free Static, 1 GB free storage with 200 GB Bandwidth.	stable
Sevalla (formerly Kinsta)	Free Deploy up to 100 static sites for free, custom domains with SSL, 100 GB monthly bandwidth, 260+ Cloudflare CDN locations. Rebranded from Kinsta in February 2026.	stable
Daestro	Free Run compute jobs across Cloud Providers & On-Prem. The free tier includes up to 10 concurrent job runs, 2 compute spawns, self-hosted compute, 1 cloud provider, 1 container registry and 1 cron job.	stable
Render	Hobby Hobby plan, $0 a month plus compute. Free web services (512 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU) spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, with 750 free instance hours per workspace a month.	stable
Cloudflare Workers	Free Edge compute with 100K requests/day, 10ms CPU time per invocation, 5 cron triggers/account. KV: 1 GB storage, 100K reads/day, 1K writes/day.	stable
Qoddi	Free App hosting platform for Node.js, Python, Go, Java, Ruby and PHP apps. Free: your first 3 static sites, with Git deployments, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited team members; more static sites are $3 a month each.	stable
Deno Deploy	Free Edge runtime — 1M requests/month, 20 GiB egress, 10 hr active CPU/month, 150 GiB-hr memory time, 1 GiB KV storage, 1M KV read units/month, 500K KV write units/month Deno is joining Cloudflare. Deno said on 2026-10-09 that Deno Deploy will keep running for six months and then shut down; it gave no exact date. Deno will help paying customers move to Cloudflare Workers. (From deno.com/blog/cloudflare, read 2026-10-12.) Deno Deploy's Free plan has restricted limits until the organization links a credit card to verify itself. (From docs.deno.com/deploy/changelog, read 2026-10-22.)	caution
Ravion	Free Formerly Flightcontrol: flightcontrol.dev redirects to ravion.com, which states "Ravion is the successor to Flightcontrol." Deploy and operate applications in your own AWS account.	stable
Netlify	Free The Free plan is $0 with a limit of 300 credits per month, covering production deploys (15 credits each), compute (10 credits per GB-hour), bandwidth (20 credits per GB) and web requests (2 credits per 10k requests). Netlify says the Free plan is always free, with hard monthly limits that cannot be…	stable
Cloudflare Durable Objects	Free Stateful serverless compute — Workers Free plan : Only Durable Objects with SQLite storage backend are available. Free plan requests are limited to 100,000 / day and duration is limited to 13,000 GB-s / day. The Workers Paid plan bills Durable Objects usage past the free tier with a $5 minimum monthly charge per account. It includes 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-s of duration monthly, with overages at $0.15 per million requests and $12.50 per million GB-s. (From developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) On the Workers Paid plan, 25 billion SQLite rows read, 50 million rows written and 5 GB-month of stored data are included a month. Rows read over 25 billion cost $0.001 per million. Rows written over 50 million cost $1.00 per million. Stored data over 5 GB-month costs $0.20 per GB-month. (From developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) On the Free plan, exceeding any free limit causes further operations of that type to fail with an error. Daily free limits reset at 00:00 UTC. (From developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.) A SQLite-backed Durable Object has a 10 GB storage limit on Workers Paid and 1 GB on Free. At the limit, write operations fail with "database or disk is full: SQLITE_FULL"; reads and deletes still work. (From developers.cloudflare.com/durable-objects/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)	stable
ampt.dev	Free Ampt lets teams build, deploy, and scale JavaScript apps on AWS without complicated configs or managing infrastructure. Free Preview plan includes 500 invocations hourly, 2,500 invocations daily and 50,000 invocations monthly.	source unconfirmed
gigalixir.com	Free Gigalixir provides one free instance that never sleeps and a free-tier PostgreSQL database limited to 2 connections, 10, 000 rows and no backups for Elixir/Phoenix apps.	stable
encore.dev	Free Backend framework with static analysis for automatic infrastructure provisioning. Free cloud hosting for hobby projects, up to 2 environments, built-in monitoring and tracing	stable
Clever Cloud	Free European PaaS with automated deployments, autoscaling, managed databases, and Git-based workflows. Includes €20 free credits at signup, a limited DEV plan with free MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, and free allowances for services like Heptapod and FS Buckets.	source unconfirmed
Choreo	Free Choreo is now WSO2 Developer Platform, an internal developer platform as a service. Its free Developer plan, for proofs of concept and low-traffic workloads, allows up to 5 components and gives US$1,000 a year of data plane credits.	unrated
MDB GO	Free Free hosting for one project with two weeks Container TTL, 500 MB RAM per project, SFTP - 1G disk space.	source unconfirmed
Koyeb	Legacy Free Serverless platform for web services, workers and Postgres databases. No free plan for new users since February 2026: new organizations must subscribe to Pro ($29 a month plus compute, with $10 of compute included) or a higher plan.	unrated
Fly.io	Legacy Free Pay-as-you-go only — no free tier for new accounts (since Oct 2024). Legacy accounts (Hobby/Launch/Scale plans) retain: 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs (256 MB RAM), 3 GB volume storage, 100 GB transfer/month.	unrated

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Northflank free?

Yes, Northflank offers a free tier: Free. Build and deploy microservices, jobs, and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI. Seamlessly scale containers from version control and external Docker registries. The free Sandbox includes 2 ... Northflank runs its own MCP server. "Connect your coding agent to Northflank to deploy applications, manage databases, and inspect resources." (From https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/ai-agents/mcp-server.md, read 2026-10-30.) The endpoint is https://mcp.northflank.com/mcp, the transport is Streamable HTTP, and authentication uses the Northflank CLI login, which the command "nf agent setup" connects, or a team API token in the header "Authorization: Bearer <token>"; Northflank MCP does not support OAuth login.

What is Northflank's free tier?

Northflank's free tier is called "Free". Build and deploy microservices, jobs, and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI. Seamlessly scale containers from version control and external Docker registries. The free Sandbox includes 2 services, 2 jobs and 1 database, up to $20 a month of resources on Northflank Cloud, 1 BYOC cluster up to 12 vCPU and 48 GB, always on with no sleeping. Northflank's pricing page lists the free Sandbox as "No card needed". (From https://northflank.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.) Northflank's billing docs still say all users must add a payment method to start creating resources, regardless of plan. (From https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/pricing-on-northflank, read 2026-10-23.) Northflank says the free Developer Sandbox is for exploring the platform, hobby projects and testing ideas, and should not be used for production applications. (From https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/pricing-on-northflank, read 2026-10-04.) Pay as you go on Northflank Cloud: CPU $0.01667 per vCPU per hour; memory $0.00833 per GB per hour (the smallest plan, 0.1 vCPU and 256 MB, is $2.70 a month); persistent disk $0.11657 per GiB per month; network egress $0.06 per GB. GPUs per hour: NVIDIA L4 $0.80; A100 40GB $1.42; A100 80GB $1.76; H100 80GB $2.74; RTX PRO 6000 $3.00; H200 $3.14; B200 $5.87. (From https://northflank.com/pricing, read 2026-10-23.) Northflank runs its own MCP server. "Connect your coding agent to Northflank to deploy applications, manage databases, and inspect resources." (From https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/ai-agents/mcp-server.md, read 2026-10-30.) The endpoint is https://mcp.northflank.com/mcp, the transport is Streamable HTTP, and authentication uses the Northflank CLI login, which the command "nf agent setup" connects, or a team API token in the header "Authorization: Bearer <token>"; Northflank MCP does not support OAuth login.

Is Northflank's free tier reliable?

Northflank's free tier is considered stable.

Is Northflank's free tier good for production?

No. Northflank's free tier is not for production use, by Northflank's own terms: "Our free tier is a great way to explore the platform, spin up hobby projects, or test new ideas. However, it should not be used for production applications." (From northflank.com/docs/v1/application/billing/pricing-on-northflank, read 2026-10-04.) We rate Northflank's pricing stable. This rating is about how its terms have changed, not what they allow. Consider free alternatives in Cloud Hosting.

What changed in Northflank's pricing?

The last change we considered recording for Northflank restated the terms we already publish, so we published none.

What are the best free alternatives to Northflank?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 29 free alternatives to Northflank in Cloud Hosting, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 21 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 6 are demoted with the reason named, 2 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

When will I outgrow Northflank's free tier?

At 1 database, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.

What category is Northflank in?

Northflank is categorized under Cloud Hosting on AgentDeals. We list 29 other Cloud Hosting services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.