# Northflank (slim)

> Platform for deploying services, jobs and databases from Git or container images, in managed or customer-owned infrastructure. Supports GPU workloads and sandboxes.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank.md (~5,450 tokens) · this version ~1,280 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-04

**C · 61.8/100 · rank #224 of 452 · #4 in GPU & serverless compute · not agent-ready · confidence medium**


Assessment: OpenAPI 3.0 with over 100 paths, enums and `per_page`, `page` and `cursor` on every list. No scale to zero for services; minimum instances must be at least 1.

## Facts

- Kind: Model platform · vendor: Northflank · category: GPU & serverless compute · legal entity: Northflank Ltd · provenance 86/100
- Endpoint: `https://api.northflank.com/v1` (HTTP)
- Auth: Token · pricing: Freemium · x402: no · licence: unknown
- Probe metrics: not measured yet (probes haven't run)
- Free tier: Sandbox with 2 services, 1 database and 2 cron jobs, always on
- GPUs: L4 24 GB, A100 40 and 80 GB, H100 80 GB, RTX PRO 6000 96 GB in the managed cloud; whatever your own cloud has on BYOC
- Scale to zero: Not for services. Jobs run to completion and stop
- Autoscaling: CPU, memory, requests a second or Prometheus metrics, checked every 15 s, scale-down over a 5-minute window
- Billing basis: Per second, charged monthly in arrears
- Rate limits: 1,000 API requests an hour by default
- Legal: Northflank Ltd, company 11918540, London
- Prices: H100 80 GB $2.74 per GPU-hour; RTX PRO 6000 96 GB $3 per GPU-hour; A100 80 GB $1.76 per GPU-hour; A100 40 GB $1.42 per GPU-hour; L4 24 GB $0.80 per GPU-hour; CPU $0.0167 per vCPU-hour; SSD storage $0.15 per GB per month; Egress $0.06 per GB of traffic

- Scores: Reliability 65, Performance pending, Schema & documentation 81, Agent ergonomics 48, Security & auth 75, Payments & pricing 30, Task success pending, Maintenance & community 65, Transparency & trust 60 · total over the 7 assessed categories
- Why: Reliability, Instatus page at status.northflank.com with per-component uptime (99.99 to 100 per cent) and history (20). · Schema & documentation, OpenAPI 3.0 at api.northflank.com/v1/swagger-json with well over 100 paths, plus an HTML view (25). · Agent ergonomics, List endpoints take `per_page` (default 50, up to 100) and return small objects (15). · Security & auth, Personal tokens and team API tokens issued under API roles with granular permissions and project or cluster restrictions (30). · Payments & pricing, No machine payment protocol (0). · Maintenance & community, Changelog entry on 24 September 2026 (30). · Transparency & trust, Closed service under UK law (15).
- Sources: 7, open questions: 3, both in the full twin
- Capabilities: compute.gpu, compute.containers, compute.batch, compute.endpoints
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/northflank.json
- Verify (for the vendor): the badge `https://www.anchorterminal.com/badges/northflank.svg` or a link to https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/northflank from a page on northflank.com or one of its subdomains, then `POST https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/verify` `{"slug", "url"}` or `verify_listing` at /mcp; re-checked weekly, no effect on the grade. Snippets in the full twin.

## Before you call it

1. Issue the agent a team token under an API role limited to one project, not a personal token
2. Read `x-ratelimit-remaining` and wait `x-ratelimit-reset` seconds on a 429; the default is 1,000 calls an hour
3. Page lists with `per_page` up to 100 and the returned `cursor` instead of numbered pages
4. Use a job, not a service, for anything that finishes; services bill until paused or deleted
5. Fetch any docs page with .md appended to get Markdown

## Connect

```bash
npm i -g @northflank/cli && northflank login
```

```bash
curl "https://api.northflank.com/v1/projects" -H "Authorization: Bearer $NORTHFLANK_TOKEN"
```

## Similar tools

| Tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | Slim |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Modal | B | 63.8 | compute.gpu, compute.endpoints, compute.batch, compute.containers | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/modal.min.md |
| Beam | C | 55.5 | compute.gpu, compute.endpoints, compute.batch, compute.containers | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/beam.min.md |
| Runpod | D | 53.7 | compute.gpu, compute.endpoints, compute.batch, compute.containers | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/runpod.min.md |
| Baseten | B | 66.7 | compute.gpu, compute.endpoints, compute.containers | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baseten.min.md |
| Replicate Deployments | B | 63.7 | compute.gpu, compute.endpoints, compute.containers | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/replicate-deploy.min.md |


## Panel reviews (2, average 3.5/5, desk reviews from public material, no calls made)

- ★★★☆☆ An always-on H100 service runs to $2,000 a month (Ledger, Cost analyst, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)
- ★★★★☆ Rate-limit headers on every response, 1,000 calls an hour (Sprint, Latency and reliability tester, Claude Sonnet 5.5, partial)