Northflank
Container platform with bring-your-own-cloud, GPUs and a sandbox-shaped API.
Overall in sandbox providers
15of 19 · score 62
Overall in vercel alternatives
6of 13 · score 65.6
Data coverage
92%
48 of 52 fields sourced
Best for
- •Compliance requires the workload inside your own VPC
- •Sandboxes are long-lived per customer, not per request
- •You also need databases, jobs and GPUs on one platform
- •Teams that need workloads inside their own cloud account for compliance
- •Full-stack preview environments including databases
- •Batch jobs and cron alongside long-running services
Strong on
- +MCP server Yes 1/18
- +GPU Yes 1/15
- +SDKs typescript, rest-api, cli 2/19
- +CLI quality 4 3/13
- +GA year 2021 3/13
Weak on
- −Snapshot & fork No 16/19Better: Daytona: Yes
- −Isolation container 17/19Better: E2B: microvm
- −Idle cost full-rate 18/19Better: Fly.io Machines: free-when-stopped
- −Meter per-minute 13/19Better: Cloudflare Sandbox: per-10ms
vs Deno Deploy
- •Ahead on Image opt billing: byo vs none
- •Ahead on Self-hostable: Partial vs No
- •Behind on Runtime model: container vs edge-only
- •Behind on Sydney region: Partial vs Yes
How Northflank scores among 19 sandbox providers48 of 52 fields known
Runtime13
Cold start
12s
15/16
Leader: Riza · 120ms
Max runtime1st
24h
1/18
Snapshot & fork
No
16/19
Leader: Daytona · Yes
Runtimes
any-oci-image
11/18
Leader: boat · python, javascript-typescript, bash, go, rust, java, ruby, php, any-oci-image
Browser inside3rd
Partial
3/18
Leader: E2B · Yes
File up/download
Partial
11/19
Leader: E2B · Yes
Sydney region
Partial
5/18
Leader: Fly.io Machines · Yes
Concurrent limit
200 sandboxes
4/15
Leader: Vercel Sandbox · 2,000 sandboxes
Isolation & network3
Isolation
container
17/19
Leader: E2B · microvm
Root in guest
Partial
16/19
Leader: E2B · Yes
Egress control1st
allowlist
1/19
Agent integration3
MCP server1st
Yes
1/18
SDKs2nd
typescript, rest-api, cli
2/19
Leader: Runloop · python, typescript, rest-api, cli
Pricing3
Price / hour
$0.07/hr
4/17
Leader: boat · $0.018/hr
Meter
per-minute
13/19
Leader: Cloudflare Sandbox · per-10ms
Idle cost
full-rate
18/19
Leader: Fly.io Machines · free-when-stopped
Traction2
GitHub stars
—
Funding
series-a
7/15
Leader: Fly.io Machines · series-c-plus
Positioning1
Positioning
Run agent workloads, services and GPUs in your own cloud account.
Timeline1
Shipped
2021
14/16
Leader: Daytona · 2025
How Northflank scores among 13 vercel alternatives48 of 52 fields known
Platform12
Frameworks
nextjs, nuxt, sveltekit, astro, dockerfile
4/13
Leader: Vercel · nextjs, nuxt, sveltekit, astro, remix, static
Next.js parity
self-managed
5/13
Leader: Vercel · full
Runtime model
container
6/13
Leader: Vercel · edge+node
Fn timeout
—
Cold start1st
0ms
1/13
Preview deploys1st
Yes
1/13
WAF & DDoS
Partial
4/13
Leader: Vercel · Yes
Observability2nd
included-basic
2/13
Leader: Deno Deploy · included-full
Sydney region
Partial
9/13
Leader: Vercel · Yes
Monorepo support1st
Yes
1/13
Rollback1st
instant
1/13
Pricing & overage7
Overage behaviour3rd
bill
3/13
Leader: Coolify · throttle
Bandwidth price
$100/TB
5/11
Leader: Cloudflare Workers & Pages · $0/TB
Price @ 1 TB
$120/mo
8/11
Leader: Cloudflare Workers & Pages · $5/mo
Build minutes incl.
—
Image opt billing2nd
byo
2/13
Leader: Netlify · included
Analytics cost
—
Free tier
3
6/13
Leader: Cloudflare Workers & Pages · 5
Portability2
Exit friction
2
4/13
Leader: Coolify · 1
Automation2
CLI quality3rd
4
3/13
Leader: Vercel · 5
Agent/CI deploy1st
Yes
1/13
Traction2
GA year3rd
2021
3/13
Leader: Sevalla · 2024
Funding
growth
5/13
Leader: Cloudflare Workers & Pages · public
Positioning1
Pricing clarity
3
7/13
Leader: Coolify · 5
AWS Amplify Hosting
Blaxel
boat
Cloudflare Sandbox
CodeSandbox SDK
Coolify
Daytona
