Convox vs Northflank: two BYOC platforms, compared honestly

The Same Core Idea

Both platforms deploy and manage workloads inside your own cloud account on Kubernetes. If you are comparing these two, you have already decided infrastructure ownership matters. Good instinct.

Where Convox Stands

In production since 2014, with enterprises like Oracle and Schibsted among its users, running one workflow across AWS, GCP, Azure, and DigitalOcean.

Where Northflank Stands

A younger platform in the same bring your own cloud category with an actively growing feature set. Evaluate both against your own requirements; their public documentation describes their coverage best.

How to Choose

Weigh cloud coverage, production track record, compliance requirements, and the migration path from your current setup. Then run a proof of concept on a real workload; both platforms support one.

What Convox Optimizes For

Boring reliability for production teams: standard Kubernetes underneath, no proprietary runtime to escape later, security controls as settings, and a deploy workflow the whole team can operate.

Try the Comparison Yourself

Install a Rack into your own account and deploy a real service today. The Console free tier covers the evaluation.

Don't just take our word for it.

“Convox made it possible for us to distribute dev-ops responsibilities from one individual to the entire team. Their platform makes it super simple for our developers to fully manage their applications in production without the operational overhead of managing Kubernetes.”

Jim Myers — Flipside Crypto

“The Convox advantage is that operations work is reduced to an absolute minimum. We used to have an extra consultant just to keep our servers safe, taking care of updates, logs and backups, whereas now our developers manage the entire infrastructure by themselves.”

Cesare Navarotto — Monrif

“Convox helped us migrate everything to AWS quicker than I ever thought was possible. Unlocking all the advantages of the cloud through Convox is easily one of the best decisions we made.”

Ryan Jackson — Paid Labs