# Northflank

Sandboxes on Northflank's container platform, in microVMs for CPU workloads and gVisor for GPUs, billed per second for vCPU and memory on Northflank Cloud or in your own cloud.

- Operated by: Northflank Ltd
- Status: Active [1]
- Website: https://northflank.com
- Categories: Agent sandboxes
- Checked: 31 Oct 2026

## Northflank Sandboxes (Northflank Cloud) (Agent sandboxes)

- Price: $0.0167 /vCPU-h (+ $0.00833 per GB-hour)
- 1-hour session: ≥ $0.0667 (2 vCPU / 4 GB · rank 6 of 26)
- Fleet month: ≥ $586.61 (50 × 8 h × 22 days)
- Billed on: Running time (per second)
- Isolation: Kata Containers microVM (sessions up to Unlimited)

What to know:

- Max 2 running: At most 2 sandboxes run at the same time.

### Plans

- Sandbox: Free; No card; 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 [4]
- Pay as you go: Free; Usage-based from $0.01667 per vCPU hour; unlimited users, deployments and workloads; GPUs, autoscaling, RBAC [4]
- Enterprise: unknown (Custom platform fee, usage, support and SLA); Your VPC, on premises or air-gapped; SAML, SCIM, audit logging; custom SLA [4]

### Billing

- Payment: Metered: usage billed afterwards [2]
- Plan minimum: None [2]
- Billing increment: Per second [2]
- Minimum charge: unknown (No minimum is stated; the product page shows a run billed for 2.71 seconds) [2]
- Per-job fee: None [2]

### Runtime

- Billed on: Running time [2]
- Isolation: Kata Containers microVM [2]
- Max session: Unlimited [2]
- Concurrent sandboxes: 2 [2]
- Largest vCPU: 288 [2]
- Largest memory: 2048 GB [2]

### Lifecycle

- Survives a stop: Disk [5]
- Snapshots: No [5]
- Pause and resume: Yes [5]
- Fork: No [5]
- Compute billed while stopped: No [5]
- Auto-stop: Unlimited [5]
- Start time (vendor claim): 800 ms [5]

### Capabilities

- GPU: Yes [1]
- Desktop: None [1]
- Coding agents installed: None [1]
- Agent prompt API: No [1]
- SSH: Yes [1]
- Docker inside: Yes [1]
- SDKs: Python, TypeScript, CLI, REST, MCP [1]
- SOC 2: Yes [1]

### Storage and network

- Disk included: 2 GB [4]
- Extra disk: $0.117 per GB-month [4]
- Snapshot storage: unknown (Backup storage is listed under Other services on the pricing page without a rate) [4]
- Egress: $0.06 per GB [4]

### Platform

- Regions: africa-south, asia-east, asia-northeast, asia-south-delhi, asia-southeast, australia-southeast, canada-central, europe-west, europe-west-frankfurt, europe-west-netherlands, europe-west-zurich, southamerica-east, us-central, us-east-ohio, us-east1, us-west, us-west-california [3]
- Your cloud (BYOC): Yes [3]
- Self-host: No [3]

### Free allowance

- Minutes a month: None [4]
- Credit a month: $20 [4]
- One-time credit: None [4]

### Prices

| Resource | Price | Per hour |
|---|---|---|
| per vCPU | $0.0167 /h [4] | $0.0167 |
| per GB of memory | $0.00833 /h [4] | $0.00833 |

- Billed per second for vCPU and memory; sandboxes are created with a compute plan (nf-compute-10 at 0.1 vCPU / 256 MB to nf-compute-32-488 at 32 vCPU / 488 GB) priced at these rates.
- GPU sandboxes on Northflank Cloud run under gVisor, per GPU per hour from $0.80 (NVIDIA L4) to $5.87 (NVIDIA B200).
- In your own cloud (BYOC) Northflank bills $0.02083 per node vCPU per hour; the cloud provider bills the machines.
- Paused sandboxes stop compute billing and lose ephemeral storage; attached volumes keep their data and are still billed.
- Vendor claim, not a measurement - ready in 0.8 seconds with a cached image.

## Sources

[1] https://northflank.com/product/sandboxes (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[2] https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/sandboxes/sandboxes-on-northflank-cloud (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[3] https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/run/deploy-to-a-region (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[4] https://northflank.com/pricing (checked 31 Oct 2026)
[5] https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application/sandboxes/configure-and-manage-sandboxes (checked 31 Oct 2026)