configure8 vs Northflank

Configure8 is a developer portal for cataloging engineering systems and enabling standards-based self-service. Its catalog organizes applications, services, data pipelines, ML jobs, environments and cloud resources with related information. Engineers can use a no-code interface to run provisioning, maintenance and other day-two actions through existing automations and guardrails. Scorecards assess reliability, security, architecture, development maturity, DORA metrics and other standards using built-in or custom checks.

Listed integrations include GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, AWS Security Hub, Jira, PagerDuty, Datadog, Okta and Microsoft Entra ID. An API can ingest and organize data from other tools. Configure8 states that it holds SOC 2 certification and encrypts cloud customer data in transit with TLS 1.2+ and at rest with AES-256. The free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited catalog users and integrations, subject to data and feature limits. Paid plans start at $19 per user per month billed annually. Enterprise is listed at $22.89 a month, while the plan details also state $22.89 per month per user.

Northflank is a developer platform for building and running applications made up of microservices, databases, background jobs, and scheduled tasks. It handles container builds, networking, and orchestration, and offers managed Kubernetes across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Deployments can use Northflank infrastructure, cloud accounts from AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, or CoreWeave, or imported Kubernetes clusters, including bare-metal and on-premises environments. Git integrations include hosted and self-hosted services; the platform also supports container registries and observability tools. Teams can use its UI, CLI, REST API, GitOps, reusable templates, pipelines, and preview environments. Northflank says secrets and files are encrypted at rest with AES-256, secrets are injected at runtime, and managed-cloud workloads use isolation controls. It states that it is SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliant; ISO 27001/27018 is listed as unavailable. The free Sandbox includes two services, one database, and two cron jobs with always-on compute. A payment method is required before creating resources, including on the free plan. Basic email support is included in all plans.