---
name: Northflank
domain: northflank.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform
descGrounded: 0.81
---

# Northflank

A runtime platform for AI-native companies, deploying containers, databases, jobs, and AI models across any cloud or Kubernetes cluster.

**Route:** surfaced by the Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same deployment and infrastructure capability to the same frontend and full-stack developers, platform engineers, and AI/agent builders that Vercel targets, as a platform for building, deploying, and scaling web and AI applications.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> The runtime platform for AI-native companies

> Deploy and scale OSS models like Llama4, Deepseek

> Deploy applications, APIs, databases, and scheduled jobs

**Edges:**

- competitor [[fast-io]]
- competitor [[cloud-withgoogle-com]]
- competitor [[react-dev]]
- competitor [[huggingface-co]]
- competitor [[mongodb-com]]
- competitor [[expo-dev]]
- competitor [[heroku-com]]
- competitor [[supabase-com]]
- competitor [[trigger-dev]]
- competitor [[redis-io]]
- competitor [[nvidia-com]]
- competitor [[litellm-ai]]
- competitor [[fly-io]]
- competitor [[railway-com]]
- competitor [[cloud-google-com]]
- competitor [[aws-amazon-com]]
- competitor [[render-com]]
- competitor [[branch-io]]
- competitor [[amplify-aws]]
- competitor [[cloudflare-com]]
- competitor [[digitalocean-com]]
- competitor [[qovery-com]]
- competitor [[netlify-com]]
- competitor [[open-sandbox-ai]]
- competitor [[modal-com]]
- competitor [[e2b-dev]]
- competitor [[github-com]]
- competitor [[vercel-com]]
- competitor [[portkey-ai]]
- competitor [[modal-com]]
- competitor [[weweb-io]] *(inferred)*
- dependency [[appwrite-io]] *(inferred)*
- dependency [[getautonoma-com]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[webapp-io]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[kuberns-com]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[firebase-google-com]] *(inferred)*
- discusses [[news-ycombinator-com]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[truefoundry-com]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[catalyst-zoho-com]] *(inferred)*
- lists [[freestuff-dev]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[blaxel-ai]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[hostinger-com]] *(inferred)*
- covers [[dev-to]] *(inferred)*
- competitor [[bunnyshell-com]] *(inferred)*
