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 bring your own sandbox 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 instead of moving every sandbox workload to a hosted platform meter.

Self-hosted pricing

$1 per self-hosted cluster per month, plus the infrastructure you already operate.

Managed pricing

Managed clusters use transparent usage meters: $0.0504 per vCPU-hour, $0.0162 per GiB memory-hour, $0.000108 per GiB storage-hour, H100 at $3.95 per GPU-hour, and RTX PRO 6000 at $3.03 per GPU-hour where available.

Decision guide

Pick the model that matches your workload.

Choose GlobalStacks when sandbox infrastructure needs to run across your own hosts, private networks, storage systems, and regional capacity choices. Self-hosted clusters keep the platform fee low while your team controls the underlying machines.

Use managed GlobalStacks clusters when you want the same control-plane model without operating the capacity yourself.

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

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