Northflank Sandboxes
Northflank runs each sandbox in its own Cloud Hypervisor microVM (gVisor for GPU), on Northflank's cloud or inside your own AWS, GCP, Azure or Oracle account. For teams that want no runtime limit and BYOC.
- 2 vCPU + 4 GiB
- $0.067/hr 0.40x E2B
- Isolation
- Cloud Hypervisor microVM
- Pause / resume
- Yes
- Max session
- No time limit (runs until deleted)
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Priced next to Northflank Sandboxes
All providers against E2B| Provider | 2 vCPU + 4 GiB$/hr | vs E2B | Relative cost | Isolation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox | $0.055 (source: Alibaba Cloud Agent Sandbox billing overview) | 0.33x | VM | |
| Northflank Sandboxes | $0.067 (source: Northflank Pricing) | 0.40x | Cloud Hypervisor microVM | |
| Prime Intellect Sandboxes | $0.090 (source: Prime Intellect Sandboxes docs) | 0.54x | microVM | |
| Freestyle | $0.132 (source: Freestyle Pricing) | 0.80x | VM |
Every field
Source on each value- Isolation Isolation technology the vendor states for each sandbox.
- Cloud Hypervisor microVM (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- Other isolation options Alternative runtimes the vendor offers besides the default (e.g. VM runtime, gVisor for GPU).
- gVisor for GPU sandboxes (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- Deployment Managed cloud service, self-hosted software, or both.
- managed (source: Northflank Pricing)
- Billing basis What the meter counts: wall-clock allocated resources, active CPU only, requests/plan quota, session-hours, or free software.
- wall clock (source: Northflank Pricing)
- vCPU price $/vCPU-hr Published on-demand CPU rate normalised to USD per vCPU-hour (per-second rates multiplied by 3,600; per-core rates divided by vCPUs per core where the vendor defines it). Lowest public tier, default region.
- $0.0167 (source: Northflank Pricing)
- Memory price $/GiB-hr Published memory rate normalised to USD per GiB-hour (GB treated as GiB where the vendor does not distinguish). 0 means the vendor states memory is free.
- $0.0083 (source: Northflank Pricing)
- Sandbox from $/sandbox-hr Smallest published per-sandbox hourly price, where the vendor publishes one.
- Not published
- Paid plan from $/mo Cheapest paid platform plan fee (before usage).
- Not published
- Free tier A free plan, free monthly allowance or sign-up credit exists.
- Yes (source: Northflank Pricing)
- Free tier detail What the free tier or credit includes, as published.
- Free Sandbox plan: up to $20/month of resources on Northflank Cloud, no card. (source: Northflank Pricing)
- Cold start ms Vendor-published create/boot time in milliseconds. Only filled when the vendor publishes a number; see startup_claim for context (percentile, conditions).
- Not published
- Resume time ms Vendor-published resume-from-pause/standby/snapshot time in milliseconds.
- Not published
- Startup claim The vendor's startup/resume wording with conditions, quoted or closely paraphrased.
- "Cold start < 1s"; example cached image ready in 0.8 s (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- Max session length Longest single sandbox session by plan, as published.
- No time limit (runs until deleted) (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- Persistence / snapshots Filesystem state can be kept between runs (snapshots, persistent disks, volumes).
- Yes (source: Northflank Pricing)
- Pause / resume A sandbox can be paused, suspended, hibernated or put in standby and resumed later.
- Yes (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- Memory state kept Pause/hibernate preserves running memory state, not only the filesystem.
- Not published
- Fork / branch A running or snapshotted sandbox can be cloned into new sandboxes.
- Not published
- GPU GPU sandboxes are offered.
- Yes (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- Self-host Can run on your own hardware or cluster (open source or licensed).
- Yes (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- BYOC / VPC Vendor-managed deployment inside your own cloud account.
- Yes (source: Northflank Pricing)
- Open source Core sandbox runtime is published under an open-source licence.
- Not published
- Licence Open-source licence of the runtime, if any.
- Not published
- SDKs / languages Official SDK languages (or supported execution languages where noted).
- REST API, CLI (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- Regions Published regions or region count.
- Not published
- Max vCPU per sandbox vCPU Largest published vCPU count per sandbox on any self-serve or enterprise plan.
- 288 (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- Max memory per sandbox GiB Largest published memory per sandbox.
- 2,048 (source: Northflank Sandboxes)
- Concurrency Published concurrent sandbox limits by plan.
- Not published
- SOC 2 SOC 2 status as stated by the vendor.
- Type II (source: Northflank Security)
- HIPAA Vendor offers HIPAA-compliant usage/BAA (on any plan).
- Yes (source: Northflank Security)
- Pricing from
- $0.0167 per vCPU-hour
- Pricing as published
- Northflank Cloud $0.01667/vCPU-h, $0.00833/GB-h; BYOC $0.02083 per managed vCPU-h plus your cloud bill; GPUs from $0.80/h (L4). Pricing checked 2026-11-09.
Sources
- Northflank Pricing accessed 2026-11-09
- Northflank Sandboxes accessed 2026-11-09
- Northflank Security accessed 2026-11-09
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