Krova Cloud vs Northflank
A developer platform for services, jobs and sandboxed workloads. Here is the same machine priced both ways, the arithmetic that produced each number, and what a Cube gives you beyond the price.
Cubes from $2.92/moThis machine $10.22/moNo credit card to sign up
At 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM, Northflank costs
4.8×
more than Krova Cloud
Their figure read from their own pricing page on
The same machine, both prices
Both sides priced at 2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 40 GB disk, running 24/7. Theirs comes from their own pricing page; ours is computed from the live rate card the product bills from.
Krova Cloud
$10.22 /mo
$0.0140/hr · billed by the minute · no platform fee
Northflank
$48.66 /mo
$0.0667/hr
At this size Northflank costs 4.8× more than Krova Cloud.
What you get on a Cube that you don't get there
Price is the headline. This is the part that decides whether you stay.
Full root SSH into a real Linux server with its own kernel — install anything, run systemd, run Docker — rather than a container scheduled onto a shared platform.
Disk is included in the per-minute rate rather than metered separately at a per-GB-month charge on top of compute.
No session ceiling and no platform lifecycle: a Cube runs until you stop it, so one machine covers a short agent run and a service you leave up for a year.
Its own kernel in a per-cube jailer sandbox, which is the isolation boundary you actually want when the code being run is not yours.
Automatic scheduled snapshots with real retention, bundled into the plan with no per-GB snapshot charge.
Clone any snapshot straight into a new Cube, or export the whole machine as a portable .cube archive and take it elsewhere.
Before you decide
Where do these Northflank numbers come from?
From Northflank's own pricing page, opened in a browser and read off it on 2026-08-14 — not from a blog post, a comparison site or memory. The rates and the arithmetic are printed above so you can redo the sum yourself, and a build-time guard fails once any comparison on this site passes ninety days, so a stale reading cannot sit here quietly.
Why is Krova Cloud cheaper at the same size?
You pay per resource — $0.001 per vCPU-hour, $0.0025 per GB of RAM and $0.00005 per GB of disk — instead of buying a fixed plan and rounding up to whatever it includes. There is no platform fee and no subscription on top, so what you pay for is the machine you asked for, by the minute — and every GB of RAM and disk in it is reserved 1:1 against real hardware.
What am I committing to?
Nothing monthly. There is no subscription and no minimum — you top up prepaid credit and pay for the minutes a Cube runs, and powering one off stops compute billing that same minute, with only its disk still billing. Signing up is free and needs no card, and your first top-up of $5 or more earns a flat $5 bonus credit, one-time.
What exactly is a Cube?
A Firecracker microVM with its own Linux kernel and full root SSH, inside a per-cube jailer sandbox — install anything, run systemd, run Docker, and leave it up as long as you like. Your app is public; your server isn't: outbound is unrestricted, so package installs, image pulls and API calls all work normally, while nothing reaches in until you map a port, and every mapping takes an IP allowlist. Custom domains run through the managed HTTPS ingress, so the origin is never exposed.
Run the same machine for $10.22 a month
No subscription and no minimum — top up prepaid credit, size a Cube however you like, and compute billing stops the minute you power it off. Signing up is free and needs no card, and your first top-up of $5 or more earns a flat $5 bonus credit, one-time.