Northflank is a developer platform for services, jobs, databases and GPUs, on its own cloud or in your cloud account (BYOC). Quave ONE Connect runs our platform in your own cloud account, and Direct runs it on our regions.
Facts checked on November 10, 2026, with a source link on every row.
Northflank is a strong, self-serve choice for running in your own cloud: a published per-vCPU BYOC price, a free Sandbox plan that includes one BYOC cluster (your cloud bill still applies), support for many providers (EKS, GKE, AKS, OKE, Civo, CoreWeave and more), GPUs, logs kept 30 days, and SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA.
Quave ONE Connect is sold as a platform license (from $399/month, plus a one-time setup fee and a 12-month minimum), with your cloud bill paid directly to your provider. It fits teams that want Disaster Readiness for their databases without an Enterprise plan, eligible idle app environments that scale to zero automatically, node pools that stop on a schedule, and a team that helps with every step of the move.
| Quave ONE | Northflank | |
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| Pricing model | Connect: a platform license from $399/month, set by a capacity tier of the vCPU and memory you provision, plus a one-time setup fee and a 12-month minimum contract. You pay your cloud provider directly. The license and setup fee cover one region and one provider. | BYOC: $0.02083 per managed node vCPU per hour, with volume discounts under a CSA. Northflank Cloud: from $0.01667 per vCPU-hour. Every plan includes unlimited users; Enterprise adds a platform fee. |
| Entry point | Tier 1 covers up to 25 vCPU / memory. Tier prices and the setup fee are in your agreement; talk to our team for current pricing. | The free Sandbox plan includes 1 BYOC cluster, up to 12 vCPU and 48 GB; your cloud provider still bills you for that infrastructure. |
| Free option | Sandbox: no card needed, up to $20/month of resources on Northflank Cloud, always on with no sleeping. | |
| Run in your own cloud | Yes, with Connect: the same platform in your AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account, or on-premise. 12-month minimum and a one-time setup fee. | |
| Who runs the cluster | The Quave team runs the Kubernetes cluster in your cloud account: cluster and platform upgrades, monitoring and infrastructure alerts, with 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages. You pay your cloud provider directly. | BYOC: Northflank provisions and manages Kubernetes clusters in your cloud. With an imported cluster, you manage the cluster lifecycle and Northflank handles application deployment and operations. |
| Regions | Regions of your own cloud account (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, another provider) or on-premise. The license covers one region and one provider; more may cost extra. | BYOC runs in your own cloud account. Northflank Cloud has 17 regions, including one in South America (Southamerica East). |
| Bandwidth | You pay your cloud provider directly for the underlying infrastructure. The Connect license tier is set by the vCPU and memory you provision. | |
| Managed databases | Managed MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis work the same on Connect as on Direct, and Disaster Readiness can keep recoverable data in another region. | |
| Long-running apps and WebSockets | Long-running containers, so WebSockets work. Idle connections close after 60 seconds without data by default; keep-alive pings (such as Meteor DDP heartbeats) keep them open. | |
| Autoscaling | App environments autoscale warm containers on CPU and memory (enabled per account on request). On Connect, eligible environments can also scale to zero when idle and wake on traffic. | |
| Logs and metrics | Included: logs kept 20 days, Grafana metrics, alerts to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, email or webhooks, and OpenTelemetry tracing (enabled per account). | Logs and metrics kept 30 days. Log sinks forward logs to external tools (not on Sandbox). |
| Preview environments | Branch previews per pushed branch with the Quave ONE CLI and GitHub Action, cleaned up after a TTL. | Preview blueprints create ephemeral environments when you open pull requests or push to branches. |
| Support | Email support, Monday to Friday, 9AM–5PM São Paulo time, usually answered within an hour. 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages on every plan. | Onboarding and migration support: best effort on Sandbox, proactive on Pay as you go, custom on Enterprise, with a 99.99% uptime SLA and a dedicated Slack channel. |
| Compliance | Working towards SOC 2 (preparing for the audit). Customers with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications run on Quave ONE; with Connect, workloads stay in your own cloud account. | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA, with Business Associate Agreements under an Enterprise contract. |
| AI agents (MCP) | Remote MCP server included: AI clients can inspect logs, review deployments, manage environments and run approved Jobs, within your account permissions. | Official hosted MCP server (mcp.northflank.com), connected with a CLI login or an API token; no OAuth. |
Every fact on this page links to the public page it came from: our own docs for Quave ONE, and the vendor's own pricing or docs pages for everyone else. We checked them on November 10, 2026. Prices and features change, so check the source before you decide. If something here is wrong or out of date, email support@quave.one and we will fix it.