Northflank Network Egress Cut to $0.06 per GB and Disk Price Halving — when and how should I migrate?

Reassess Northflank for bandwidth-heavy workloads after request pricing was removed and egress and disk rates were cut in December 2025.

Use Northflank for bandwidth- or storage-heavy services if PaaS convenience matters; keep Railway only when pure usage metering and slightly cheaper egress win.

Blockers

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Candidates

Use Northflank for bandwidth-heavy or storage-heavy services

As of 2026-03-20, Northflank's 2025-12-11 pricing change has already occurred. Northflank's changelog states request pricing was removed entirely, network egress dropped from $0.15 to $0.06 per GB, and NVMe disk pricing dropped from $0.30 to $0.15 per GB per month. Northflank's pricing page currently lists network egress at $0.06 per GB, disk at $0.15 per GB per month, and example bundled compute plans such as 1 dedicated vCPU with 2 GB RAM at $24.00 per month. This materially improves Northflank's fit for workloads where public egress and attached storage are a meaningful part of total cost.

When to choose

Use this when you want a managed PaaS and bandwidth plus disk are blocker-level cost drivers. The decisive factor is that Northflank no longer adds request-based charges and now prices egress and disk at levels that are much closer to other usage-metered PaaS options.

Tradeoffs

Pros: request pricing is gone, egress and disk are both lower than Northflank's pre-2025-12-11 rates, and compute is available as predefined bundled plans. Cons: Northflank egress is still not the absolute lowest among comparable PaaS options in this card, and compute is plan-based rather than fully unbundled by resource line item.

Cautions

Do not evaluate Northflank using older pre-December-2025 calculators or internal assumptions. As of 2026-03-20, the key blocker facts are the removal of request pricing and the new $0.06 per GB egress and $0.15 per GB per month disk rates.

Sources

Keep Railway if slightly lower egress and pure usage metering matter more

As of 2026-03-20, Railway documents a subscription-plus-usage model: Free at $0 per month, Hobby at $5 per month, Pro at $20 per month, with the subscription fee counting toward usage. Railway's pricing docs list RAM at $10 per GB per month, CPU at $20 per vCPU per month, network egress at $0.05 per GB, and volume storage at $0.15 per GB per month. Relative to Northflank, Railway's listed egress is $0.01 per GB lower while volume storage is the same listed price. The main distinction is pricing structure: Railway exposes resource line items directly, while Northflank surfaces bundled compute plans.

When to choose

Use this when you prefer explicit per-resource metering and your workload economics are dominated by steady CPU, RAM, storage, and egress line items. The decisive factor is Railway's currently listed $0.05 per GB egress with usage offset by the monthly subscription fee.

Tradeoffs

Pros: slightly lower listed egress than Northflank and straightforward per-resource pricing. Cons: paid plans start with a subscription fee, and the decision benefit versus Northflank may be small if request pricing removal was the main blocker.

Cautions

Do not compare Railway only on headline subscription price. As of 2026-03-20, the relevant comparison is total usage cost after applying the included subscription credit, especially if your workload has persistent CPU and RAM usage.

Sources

Facts updated: 2026-03-20
Published: 2026-04-03

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