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One GPU per instance, 3 GPUs of default quota a region and instance-based billing limit it to small and mid-size models.", "bestFor": "Serving small and mid-size open models, or batch jobs, from a container that should scale to zero.", "strengths": [ "Scales to zero, bills per second, and instances with drivers start in about 5 seconds", "SLA of 99.95% with zonal redundancy and 99.5% without, plus Google's status feed", "IAM roles for deploying and invoking, Cloud Audit Logs and services that can require authentication", "Per-second prices public, L4 from about $0.67 a GPU-hour without zonal redundancy", "The same GPU option on services, jobs (up to 12 hours) and worker pools" ], "weaknesses": [ "One GPU per instance, L4 (24 GB) or RTX PRO 6000 (96 GB) only, so large models don't fit", "Default quota is 3 GPUs a region; more needs a quota request", "Model load time comes on top of the 5-second start, and minimum instances bill while idle", "No free GPU tier, and the trial credit needs a payment method", "Google's APIs accept OAuth tokens in a URL query parameter" ], "agentNotes": [ "Pass `--gpu 1 --gpu-type nvidia-l4` (or nvidia-rtx-pro-6000) with at least 4 vCPU and 16 GiB, and `--no-cpu-throttling` for instance-based billing", "Load model weights from Cloud Storage at startup in parallel; bake them into the image only below about 10 GB", "Turn zonal redundancy off for cheaper, more readily granted quota when failover isn't required", "Set minimum instances to 0 unless cold starts matter, since minimum instances bill at the full rate", "Send OAuth tokens in the `Authorization` header, never as `access_token` in the URL" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 68.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 66, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 20, "reliability": 70, "schema": 81, "security": 78, "transparency": 69 }, "provenanceScore": 99, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "headless": { "command": "gcloud run deploy SERVICE --image IMAGE --gpu 1 --gpu-type nvidia-l4 --cpu 4 --memory 16Gi --no-cpu-throttling --region europe-west1" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.serverless", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cloud-run-gpus" }, "sameCompany": [ "gemini-api", "vertex-ai", "gemini-embedding", "vertex-ai-tuning", "google-model-armor", "google-imagen", "google-veo", "google-lyria", "google-speech-to-text", "google-cloud-tts", "gemini-live", "google-adk", "google-memory-bank", "google-secret-manager", "google-cloud-document-ai", "google-weather-api", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "google-maps-platform", "google-cloud-translation", "google-calendar-api", "firebase-cloud-messaging", "google-cloud-storage", "google-drive-api", "gemini-enterprise", "gemini-cli", "google-search-console", "google-ads-api", "google-forms", "google-sheets-api", "gmail-api", "google-people-api" ], "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "NVIDIA L4, no zonal redundancy", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 0.67, "note": "$0.0001867 a second, tier 1 regions; CPU and memory extra" }, { "item": "NVIDIA L4, zonal redundancy", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 1.05, "note": "$0.0002909 a second" }, { "item": "NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000, no zonal redundancy", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 1.31, "note": "$0.00036522 a second" }, { "item": "NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000, zonal redundancy", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 2.05, "note": "$0.00056913 a second" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "google.com", "domainRegistered": "1997-09-15", "domainNote": "The endpoints are on googleapis.com, Google's API domain. Docs are on docs.cloud.google.com.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://cloud.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://cloud.google.com/terms/cloud-privacy-notice", "statusPage": "https://status.cloud.google.com", "changelog": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/run/docs/release-notes", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "Legal entity, terms, privacy notice and security.txt as on the Google Cloud Document AI listing, checked 1 November 2026, and not re-read for this listing.", "docs.cloud.google.com/robots.txt and cloud.google.com/robots.txt allow the Cloud Run pages read; status.cloud.google.com/robots.txt allows everything.", "The Cloud Run SLA lists GPU services separately, 99.95% with zonal redundancy and 99.5% without (https://cloud.google.com/run/sla)." ], "score": 99 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloud-run-gpus.json", "live": { "slug": "cloud-run-gpus", "probe": { "target": "https://run.googleapis.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:17.664716666Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 159, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 35, "p95ms24h": 120, "samples24h": 200, "samples30d": 200, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.cloud.google.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T04:47:16.629467571Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google-cloud/run", "version": "4.2.0", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:15:29.275446701Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "google-cloud-run", "version": "0.16.2", "released": "2026-10-01", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:15:27.277547645Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 1706675, "pypiWeekly": 3039289, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://google.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2030-04-01T00:00:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:22.068349931Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.cloud.google.com/run/docs/release-notes", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:05:47.69894113Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "924ee0205e11" }, { "url": "https://cloud.google.com/terms/cloud-privacy-notice", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:01:29.495526727Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-03T07:43:24.319773868Z", "fingerprint": "b62369d64ac6" }, { "url": "https://cloud.google.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:01:27.593286996Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-03T07:43:22.480965239Z", "fingerprint": "b9ec671a2caf" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:17.664716666Z" } }, "answer": "Cloud Run GPUs scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Northflank's 54 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Northflank leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "northflank", "name": "Northflank", "vendor": "Northflank", "vendorUrl": "https://northflank.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "gpu-compute", "summary": "Platform for deploying services, jobs and databases from Git or container images, in managed or customer-owned infrastructure. Supports GPU workloads and sandboxes.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/northflank.json", "dns": "northflank.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.northflank.com/v1", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@northflank/cli" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@northflank/js-client" } ], "auth": "pat", "authNotes": "Personal API token from account settings, or a team token issued under an API role, sent as `Authorization: Bearer` to api.northflank.com/v1. Rate limit headers `x-ratelimit-limit`, `x-ratelimit-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-reset` come back on every response.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go, pro-rated to the second and charged at the end of the monthly cycle. CPU $0.01667 a vCPU-hour and memory $0.00833 a GB-hour, from a 0.5 vCPU 1 GB plan at $12 a month. GPUs an hour are L4 24 GB $0.80, A100 40 GB $1.42, A100 80 GB $1.76, H100 80 GB $2.74, RTX PRO 6000 96 GB $3.00, and in eights H200 141 GB $3.14 and B200 180 GB $5.87. Persistent NVMe disk $0.11657 a GiB-month and egress $0.06 a GB. Running in your own cloud bills $0.02083 a node vCPU-hour and $1.00 a GB of GPU VRAM a month. The free Sandbox needs no card and gives 2 services, 2 jobs and 1 database, up to $20 a month of resources and one BYOC cluster up to 12 vCPU and 48 GB. Enterprise is by quote with a custom SLA (https://northflank.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$0.0167 / vCPU-hr", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 19190, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://northflank.com/docs/v1/application", "llmsTxt": "https://northflank.com/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.northflank.com/v1/swagger-json", "capabilities": [ "compute.gpu", "compute.containers", "compute.batch", "compute.endpoints" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "openapi", "llms-txt", "typescript", "uk", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-24", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 919, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 81, "security": 82, "transparency": 56 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": -15, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-30, security incident, open on 2 November. After a Wiz threat alert at 11:43 UTC, Northflank told every customer to \"assume all environment variables have been decrypted\" and rotate all secrets, and reported that users confirmed unauthorised use of AI API keys they had stored on the platform. No cause or postmortem yet. An exfiltration path across the hosted service, 15 points, as trigger-dev's 1 November breach took 15 for a subset of organisations (https://status.northflank.com/history/1).", "2026-11-02, inside the floor. The security page still says \"Northflank has not experienced a security breach since the company's formation\" while the incident above is open, a claim on its own pages that contradicts its status page. A misleading claim on one page, a separate kind, 2 points (https://northflank.com/security).", "Total 15 + 2 = 17, held at the -15 floor." ], "verdict": "Northflank runs services, jobs, databases and GPUs on its cloud or the customer's, with an OpenAPI 3.0 contract, scoped team tokens and a free sandbox that needs no card. On 30 October 2026 it told every customer to assume their environment variables were decrypted, still open on 2 November, while its security page says it has never been breached.", "bestFor": "Teams that want GPUs next to their services and databases on one platform, or inside their own cloud account.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0 with over 100 paths, enums and `per_page`, `page` and `cursor` on every list", "Team API tokens under API roles with granular permissions and key rotation, plus audit logs for every customer", "Runs in Northflank's cloud or your own AWS, GCP, Azure or bare metal", "Free Sandbox with no card needed, and llms.txt with a Markdown twin for every docs page", "H100 at $2.74 and A100 80 GB at $1.76 an hour, billed per second" ], "weaknesses": [ "A security incident opened on 30 October 2026, still open on 2 November, told customers to assume all environment variables were decrypted", "The security page says Northflank has never been breached, against its own open incident", "1,000 API requests an hour by default", "Terms and privacy policy unchanged since 1 March 2021, and no security.txt or disclosure policy", "No error schemas in the spec and no idempotency keys" ], "agentNotes": [ "Rotate every secret stored in Northflank, including AI provider keys, and check provider billing before trusting existing credentials. The 30 October 2026 incident was still open on 2 November", "Issue the agent a team token under an API role limited to one project, not a personal token", "Read `x-ratelimit-remaining` and wait `x-ratelimit-reset` seconds on a 429. The default is 1,000 calls an hour", "Page lists with `per_page` up to 100 and the returned `cursor` instead of numbered pages", "Use a job, not a service, for anything that finishes. Services bill until paused or deleted" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 54 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 52, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 81, "security": 82, "transparency": 33 }, "provenanceScore": 79, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "lastMoved": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npm i -g @northflank/cli \u0026\u0026 northflank login", "http": "curl \"https://api.northflank.com/v1/projects\" -H \"Authorization: Bearer $NORTHFLANK_TOKEN\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/compute.gpu", "tool": "https://letme.dev/northflank" }, "area": "models", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "B200 180 GB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 5.87, "note": "In nodes of 8" }, { "item": "H200 141 GB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 3.14, "note": "In nodes of 8" }, { "item": "H100 80 GB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 2.74, "note": "Billed per second" }, { "item": "RTX PRO 6000 96 GB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 3 }, { "item": "A100 80 GB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 1.76 }, { "item": "A100 40 GB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 1.42 }, { "item": "L4 24 GB", "unit": "gpu-hour", "usd": 0.8 }, { "item": "CPU", "unit": "vcpu-hour", "usd": 0.01667, "note": "Memory extra at $0.00833 a GB-hour" }, { "item": "Egress", "unit": "gb", "usd": 0.06 }, { "item": "Persistent NVMe disk", "unit": "gb-month", "usd": 0.11657, "note": "Per GiB" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Northflank Ltd", "domain": "northflank.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-03-31", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://northflank.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://northflank.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.northflank.com", "changelog": "https://northflank.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-02", "notes": [ "Terms and privacy policy, both dated 1 March 2021, name Northflank Ltd, company number 11918540, 20-22 Wenlock Road, London N1 7GU, with legal@northflank.com as contact.", "The API runs on api.northflank.com, a subdomain of the vendor domain.", "northflank.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 2 November 2026. 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The Cloud Data Processing Addendum and the privacy notice cover customer data, per the Document AI listing's 1 November reading; no Cloud Run statement on GPU instance data after shutdown was found (22). The Cloud terms promise 12 months' notice before a backwards-incompatible API change, and driver versions are announced in the release notes (16). Regions per GPU type listed, with Google's subprocessor list and data-location terms (16). 15+22+16+16 = 69.", "b": "Closed service under UK law (15). Terms and privacy policy are both dated 1 March 2021, more than five years old, with no retention periods we could find (10). Both still read Effective Date 1 March 2021 on 2 November. No deprecation policy or dated notices found (0). Regions and bring-your-own-cloud are documented; no subprocessor list found (8)." }, "scores": { "a": 84, "b": 56 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "payments", "leads": "northflank", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "reasons": { "a": "No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-second GPU, CPU and memory prices published without a login (20). The Cloud Run free tier covers CPU and memory, not GPUs, and the $300 trial credit needs a payment method (0). A person creates the project and billing account in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20.", "b": "No machine payment protocol (0). Per-hour GPU, vCPU and memory prices published without a login (20). The free Sandbox plan says \"No card needed\", with 2 services, 2 jobs and 1 database, up to $20 a month of resources (20). Signup is a browser flow (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40." }, "scores": { "a": 20, "b": 40 } }, { "by": 15, "category": "reliability", "leads": "northflank", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Hosted reading. Google Cloud's status page with a JSON incident feed (20). In the 90 days from 8 August 2026 the feed names Cloud Run in three multi-product incidents, a service outage on 20 August (15:40 to 19:20 UTC, 27 products, global and us-west1), a network degradation in us-central1-b on 1 September and a europe-west2 disruption on 20 October. One major (10). Resource limits and GPU quota are published with numbers (3 GPUs a region by default), but no request rate for the Admin API was found on the quotas page (10). Google's client libraries retry with backoff and the Admin API takes etags, while no GPU-specific retry guidance was found (10). An SLA for GPU services, 99.95% with zonal redundancy and 99.5% without (10). GPU services generally available since 7 April 2025 (10). 20+10+10+10+10+10 = 70.", "b": "Graded on the hosted platform lines. Instatus page at status.northflank.com with per-component uptime and history (20). Five notices from 4 August to 2 November 2026. Workloads failed to start for some users across several regions for 1 hour on 5 August (\"partial start up issues\", labelled partial outage), addon expose was paused in US - Central for 2 hours 25 minutes on 4 September (maintenance), SSO through WorkOS was degraded for 46 minutes on 25 September, and on 20 October a GCP europe-west2 zone fault reached login and control plane components for part of 6 hours 50 minutes, with workloads unaffected and \"the majority of users\" unaffected. Each is partial, so minor. The 30 October \"Security incident\", still open on 2 November, marks the platform components as major outage but describes exposed secrets, not downtime, and the Northflank API component shows 100 per cent uptime for October, so it's scored as a negative event (20). 1,000 API requests an hour by default (15). A 429 past the limit, with `x-ratelimit-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-reset` on every response. No backoff or safe-retry guidance (10 of 15). The pricing page lists a 99.99 per cent uptime SLA and a custom SLA on Enterprise; no SLA document was found (10). Services, jobs and GPU workloads are GA (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 85." }, "scores": { "a": 70, "b": 85 } }, { "by": 14, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "cloud-run-gpus", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Platform reading. One `gcloud run deploy` with `--gpu` and `--gpu-type` adds a GPU to a container, and responses carry the service object with `fieldMask` on updates (15). List calls page with `pageSize` and `pageToken` (15). Google's status codes and messages, with quota errors that name the limit (12). Revisions are immutable, traffic can be moved back, and etags guard updates, but no idempotency key on create (12). Client libraries in many languages and gcloud, though a GPU deploy needs instance-based billing, minimum CPU and memory and, past 3 GPUs, a quota request (12). 15+15+12+12+12 = 66.", "b": "List endpoints take `per_page` (default 50, up to 100) and return small objects (15). `page` and a 24-character `cursor` on every list endpoint (20). Error responses aren't documented beyond the 429 (5). No idempotency keys or safe-retry guidance found (0). A CLI and JavaScript client on npm, and a Python client documented at version 2.1.0, with a hosted MCP server set up through the CLI's team login (12). 15 + 20 + 5 + 0 + 12 = 52." }, "scores": { "a": 66, "b": 52 } }, { "by": 10, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "cloud-run-gpus", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service with official SDKs. The newest GPU change is 30 October 2026, jobs with GPUs running up to 12 hours (30). Cloud Run release notes dated 4 November, 2 November, 30 October, 24 October and more in the 90 days (20). Release notes, Google Cloud support and public trackers for the client libraries, which were not read (10). Official client libraries in eight languages and gcloud (15). CI results not checked (5). 30+20+10+15+5 = 80.", "b": "The newest changelog digest is dated 24 September 2026, 39 days before the check. The status page's dated updates on 30 and 31 October 2026 announce secret rotation for Postgres, MongoDB and RabbitMQ add-ons and audit logs for all customers, platform changes on the vendor's own page within 30 days (30). Digests come every two months, so one falls in the 90 days from 4 August (24 September, the 23 July digest having left), with the October changes on the status page. Half credit (10). Closed service with a dated changelog and a support address for rate-limit increases (10 of 15). A CLI and JavaScript client on npm and a Python client the docs put at 2.1.0. npm and PyPI couldn't be read on 2 November (15). npm packages not audited (5). 30 + 10 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 70." }, "scores": { "a": 80, "b": 70 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Google Cloud", "b": "Northflank", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://run.googleapis.com", "b": "https://api.northflank.com/v1", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "Token", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the Google Cloud Platform terms. 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Northflank leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cloud Run GPUs or Northflank?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 66 against 52", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 70", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 84 against 56" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Northflank loses 15 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Serving small and mid-size open models, or batch jobs, from a container that should scale to zero.", "slug": "cloud-run-gpus", "watchFor": "One GPU per instance, L4 (24 GB) or RTX PRO 6000 (96 GB) only, so large models don't fit" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 85 against 70", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Teams that want GPUs next to their services and databases on one platform, or inside their own cloud account.", "slug": "northflank", "watchFor": "A security incident opened on 30 October 2026, still open on 2 November, told customers to assume all environment 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nebius-ai-cloud-vs-northflank" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-replicate-deploy.json", "title": "Northflank vs Replicate Deployments", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-replicate-deploy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-runpod.json", "title": "Northflank vs Runpod", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-runpod" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-thunder-compute.json", "title": "Northflank vs Thunder Compute", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-thunder-compute" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-together-gpu-clusters.json", "title": "Northflank vs Together GPU Clusters", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-together-gpu-clusters" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-vast-ai.json", "title": "Northflank vs Vast.ai", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-vast-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-verda.json", "title": "Northflank vs Verda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/northflank-vs-verda" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-koyeb.json", "title": "Cloud Run GPUs vs Koyeb", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-koyeb" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-modal.json", "title": "Cloud Run GPUs vs Modal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-modal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-replicate-deploy.json", "title": "Cloud Run GPUs vs Replicate Deployments", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-replicate-deploy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-runpod.json", "title": "Cloud Run GPUs vs Runpod", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-runpod" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-vast-ai.json", "title": "Cloud Run GPUs vs Vast.ai", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-vast-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-verda.json", "title": "Cloud Run GPUs vs Verda", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-verda" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "by": 15, "cloud-run-gpus": 70, "edge": "northflank", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "northflank": 85, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 0, "cloud-run-gpus": 81, "edge": "", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "northflank": 81, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 14, "cloud-run-gpus": 66, "edge": "cloud-run-gpus", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "northflank": 52, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "cloud-run-gpus": 78, "edge": "northflank", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "northflank": 82, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "cloud-run-gpus": 20, "edge": "northflank", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "northflank": 40, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 10, "cloud-run-gpus": 80, "edge": "cloud-run-gpus", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "northflank": 70, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 28, "cloud-run-gpus": 84, "edge": "cloud-run-gpus", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "northflank": 56, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cloud Run GPUs scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Northflank's 54 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cloud-run-gpus.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cloud-run-gpus.json\n- Northflank: grade C, 54/100, rank #919 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/northflank.json\n- Best GPU and serverless compute for AI workloads: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/gpu-compute/index.md\n- All 231 gpu compute comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gpu-compute/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cloud Run GPUs (B)\n\nGood for: Serving small and mid-size open models, or batch jobs, from a container that should scale to zero.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 66 against 52\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 70\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 84 against 56\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Northflank loses 15 points for them\n\nWatch for: One GPU per instance, L4 (24 GB) or RTX PRO 6000 (96 GB) only, so large models don't fit\n\n### Northflank (C)\n\nGood for: Teams that want GPUs next to their services and databases on one platform, or inside their own cloud account.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n\nWatch for: A security incident opened on 30 October 2026, still open on 2 November, told customers to assume all environment variables were decrypted\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Cloud Run GPUs +28\n\n- Cloud Run GPUs (84): Closed service under the Google Cloud terms, with Apache-2.0 client libraries (15). The Cloud Data Processing Addendum and the privacy notice cover customer data, per the Document AI listing's 1 November reading; no Cloud Run statement on GPU instance data after shutdown was found (22). The Cloud terms promise 12 months' notice before a backwards-incompatible API change, and driver versions are announced in the release notes (16). Regions per GPU type listed, with Google's subprocessor list and data-location terms (16). 15+22+16+16 = 69.\n- Northflank (56): Closed service under UK law (15). Terms and privacy policy are both dated 1 March 2021, more than five years old, with no retention periods we could find (10). Both still read Effective Date 1 March 2021 on 2 November. No deprecation policy or dated notices found (0). Regions and bring-your-own-cloud are documented; no subprocessor list found (8).\n\n### Payments \u0026 pricing: Northflank +20\n\n- Cloud Run GPUs (20): No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-second GPU, CPU and memory prices published without a login (20). The Cloud Run free tier covers CPU and memory, not GPUs, and the $300 trial credit needs a payment method (0). A person creates the project and billing account in a browser (0). 0+20+0+0 = 20.\n- Northflank (40): No machine payment protocol (0). Per-hour GPU, vCPU and memory prices published without a login (20). The free Sandbox plan says \"No card needed\", with 2 services, 2 jobs and 1 database, up to $20 a month of resources (20). Signup is a browser flow (0). 0 + 20 + 20 + 0 = 40.\n\n### Reliability: Northflank +15\n\n- Cloud Run GPUs (70): Hosted reading. Google Cloud's status page with a JSON incident feed (20). In the 90 days from 8 August 2026 the feed names Cloud Run in three multi-product incidents, a service outage on 20 August (15:40 to 19:20 UTC, 27 products, global and us-west1), a network degradation in us-central1-b on 1 September and a europe-west2 disruption on 20 October. One major (10). Resource limits and GPU quota are published with numbers (3 GPUs a region by default), but no request rate for the Admin API was found on the quotas page (10). Google's client libraries retry with backoff and the Admin API takes etags, while no GPU-specific retry guidance was found (10). An SLA for GPU services, 99.95% with zonal redundancy and 99.5% without (10). GPU services generally available since 7 April 2025 (10). 20+10+10+10+10+10 = 70.\n- Northflank (85): Graded on the hosted platform lines. Instatus page at status.northflank.com with per-component uptime and history (20). Five notices from 4 August to 2 November 2026. Workloads failed to start for some users across several regions for 1 hour on 5 August (\"partial start up issues\", labelled partial outage), addon expose was paused in US - Central for 2 hours 25 minutes on 4 September (maintenance), SSO through WorkOS was degraded for 46 minutes on 25 September, and on 20 October a GCP europe-west2 zone fault reached login and control plane components for part of 6 hours 50 minutes, with workloads unaffected and \"the majority of users\" unaffected. Each is partial, so minor. The 30 October \"Security incident\", still open on 2 November, marks the platform components as major outage but describes exposed secrets, not downtime, and the Northflank API component shows 100 per cent uptime for October, so it's scored as a negative event (20). 1,000 API requests an hour by default (15). A 429 past the limit, with `x-ratelimit-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-reset` on every response. No backoff or safe-retry guidance (10 of 15). The pricing page lists a 99.99 per cent uptime SLA and a custom SLA on Enterprise; no SLA document was found (10). Services, jobs and GPU workloads are GA (10). 20 + 20 + 15 + 10 + 10 + 10 = 85.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Cloud Run GPUs +14\n\n- Cloud Run GPUs (66): Platform reading. One `gcloud run deploy` with `--gpu` and `--gpu-type` adds a GPU to a container, and responses carry the service object with `fieldMask` on updates (15). List calls page with `pageSize` and `pageToken` (15). Google's status codes and messages, with quota errors that name the limit (12). Revisions are immutable, traffic can be moved back, and etags guard updates, but no idempotency key on create (12). Client libraries in many languages and gcloud, though a GPU deploy needs instance-based billing, minimum CPU and memory and, past 3 GPUs, a quota request (12). 15+15+12+12+12 = 66.\n- Northflank (52): List endpoints take `per_page` (default 50, up to 100) and return small objects (15). `page` and a 24-character `cursor` on every list endpoint (20). Error responses aren't documented beyond the 429 (5). No idempotency keys or safe-retry guidance found (0). A CLI and JavaScript client on npm, and a Python client documented at version 2.1.0, with a hosted MCP server set up through the CLI's team login (12). 15 + 20 + 5 + 0 + 12 = 52.\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Cloud Run GPUs +10\n\n- Cloud Run GPUs (80): Closed service with official SDKs. The newest GPU change is 30 October 2026, jobs with GPUs running up to 12 hours (30). Cloud Run release notes dated 4 November, 2 November, 30 October, 24 October and more in the 90 days (20). Release notes, Google Cloud support and public trackers for the client libraries, which were not read (10). Official client libraries in eight languages and gcloud (15). CI results not checked (5). 30+20+10+15+5 = 80.\n- Northflank (70): The newest changelog digest is dated 24 September 2026, 39 days before the check. The status page's dated updates on 30 and 31 October 2026 announce secret rotation for Postgres, MongoDB and RabbitMQ add-ons and audit logs for all customers, platform changes on the vendor's own page within 30 days (30). Digests come every two months, so one falls in the 90 days from 4 August (24 September, the 23 July digest having left), with the October changes on the status page. Half credit (10). Closed service with a dated changelog and a support address for rate-limit increases (10 of 15). A CLI and JavaScript client on npm and a Python client the docs put at 2.1.0. npm and PyPI couldn't be read on 2 November (15). npm packages not audited (5). 30 + 10 + 10 + 15 + 5 = 70.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cloud Run GPUs | Northflank | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 85 | Northflank +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 81 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 66 | 52 | Cloud Run GPUs +14 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 78 | 82 | Northflank +4 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | Northflank +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 70 | Cloud Run GPUs +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 56 | Cloud Run GPUs +28 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -15 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.4 · B** | **54 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cloud Run GPUs | Northflank |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | Google Cloud | Northflank |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://run.googleapis.com` | `https://api.northflank.com/v1` |\n| Transports | | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | Token |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the Google Cloud Platform terms. Client libraries are Apache-2.0 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-30 | 2026-09-24 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | 2021-03-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | 2021-03-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 19k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Cloud Run GPUs\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Northflank\n\n- -7.4 on 2 November 2026: pricing, product, new evidence, correction, negative event\n- +0.1 on 28 October 2026: new evidence\n- -0.5 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cloud Run GPUs.** Serverless GPUs on Cloud Run, an L4 or RTX PRO 6000 per instance, billed per second, scaling to zero and starting in about 5 seconds before the model loads, with a published SLA and IAM. One GPU per instance, 3 GPUs of default quota a region and instance-based billing limit it to small and mid-size models.\n\n**Northflank.** Northflank runs services, jobs, databases and GPUs on its cloud or the customer's, with an OpenAPI 3.0 contract, scoped team tokens and a free sandbox that needs no card. On 30 October 2026 it told every customer to assume their environment variables were decrypted, still open on 2 November, while its security page says it has never been breached.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cloud Run GPUs\n\n1. Pass `--gpu 1 --gpu-type nvidia-l4` (or nvidia-rtx-pro-6000) with at least 4 vCPU and 16 GiB, and `--no-cpu-throttling` for instance-based billing\n2. Load model weights from Cloud Storage at startup in parallel; bake them into the image only below about 10 GB\n3. Turn zonal redundancy off for cheaper, more readily granted quota when failover isn't required\n4. Set minimum instances to 0 unless cold starts matter, since minimum instances bill at the full rate\n5. Send OAuth tokens in the `Authorization` header, never as `access_token` in the URL\n\n### Northflank\n\n1. Rotate every secret stored in Northflank, including AI provider keys, and check provider billing before trusting existing credentials. The 30 October 2026 incident was still open on 2 November\n2. Issue the agent a team token under an API role limited to one project, not a personal token\n3. Read `x-ratelimit-remaining` and wait `x-ratelimit-reset` seconds on a 429. The default is 1,000 calls an hour\n4. Page lists with `per_page` up to 100 and the returned `cursor` instead of numbered pages\n5. Use a job, not a service, for anything that finishes. Services bill until paused or deleted\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cloud Run GPUs or Northflank?\n\nCloud Run GPUs scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Northflank's 54 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Northflank leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-northflank.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cloud-run-gpus-vs-northflank.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cloud-run-gpus\", \"b\": \"northflank\"}`. 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