Provider comparison

GlobalStacks vs Northflank

Northflank is a broad managed developer platform with aggressive hosted compute pricing. GlobalStacks is a better fit when you want to combine owned and managed capacity.

Northflank

When Northflank fits

Best fit: Teams that want a broader managed platform with competitive hosted compute and GPU pricing.
Pricing: $0.01667 per vCPU-hour and $0.00833 per GB memory-hour on Northflank compute.
GPU: L4 at $0.80 per hour, A100 40GB at $1.42 per hour, A100 80GB at $1.76 per hour, H100 80GB at $2.74 per hour, and RTX PRO 6000 at $3.00 per hour.
Important tradeoff: If your team only compares hosted CPU and GPU rates, Northflank can be less expensive for several workload shapes.

GlobalStacks

When to choose GlobalStacks

GlobalStacks lets teams reuse hardware, cloud accounts, Proxmox nodes, and private networks while adding shared or dedicated managed capacity where it fits.

Platform subscription and BYO

One organization subscription across Studio, Products, and Infra: $10 per month with an annual commitment, billed monthly, or $12 with monthly flexibility.

Five BYO host slots and unlimited clusters are included. Additional hosts cost $2.50 per month with an annual commitment or $3 with monthly flexibility; workloads on eligible hosts are not metered.

Shared managed pricing

Planned annual-commitment rates: $0.08 per active vCPU-hour, $0.04 per reserved vCPU-hour, $0.01 per GiB-hour of memory, $0.10 per GiB-month of persistent storage, and $0.05 per GB of external network. Flexible-month rates are $0.096, $0.048, $0.012, $0.12, and $0.06 respectively.

Dedicated managed pricing

Provider infrastructure is passed through at cost. Management is 20% with a $25 monthly minimum per host on an annual commitment, or 24% with a $30 minimum on monthly flexibility. CPU and memory are not metered within the host.

Private mesh included

GlobalStacks includes a managed private mesh for encrypted control-plane, agent, and backend traffic across eligible GS-hosted and customer-owned hosts. Public traffic still enters through explicit ingress; customers do not have to run or configure a separate mesh service for the standard path.

Decision guide

Pick the model that matches your workload.

Choose GlobalStacks when Studio and Product workloads need to run across your own hosts, private networks, shared managed capacity, or customer-exclusive managed servers. One organization subscription includes Studio, Products, Infra, five BYO hosts, and unlimited clusters.

Combine BYO, shared managed, and dedicated managed infrastructure across development, staging, production, and burst capacity without changing the control-plane model.

The same model includes private encrypted mesh traffic for eligible control-plane, agent, and backend paths. Public exposure remains an explicit ingress decision rather than a side effect of joining the mesh.

Pricing reviewed June 14, 2026. Source: Northflank pricing.

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