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Google Cloud Run vs Northflank: which is more reliable? (2026)
Google Cloud Run and Northflank are effectively tied on reliability (72.8 vs 72.1). Over the last 90 days Google Cloud Run reported 3 incidents and Northflank reported 5, with effective uptime of 99.59% and 99.51% respectively. Northflank resolves incidents faster on average (2h 46m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Google Cloud Run | Northflank |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 72.8 | 72.1 |
| Rank (app hosting platforms) | #6 | #7 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.59% | 99.51% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 5 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 1 |
| Avg time to resolve | 4h 39m | 2h 46m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Google Cloud Run and Northflank differ
- Northflank reported 67% more incidents than Google Cloud Run over the last 90 days (5 vs 3).
- Google Cloud Run had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for Northflank.
- Northflank fixes problems faster: 2h 46m on average, against 4h 39m for Google Cloud Run.
- Google Cloud Run's longest outage on record lasted 6h 8m (Oct 20, 2026); Northflank's lasted 1h 22m (Jul 22, 2026).
90-day uptime
Google Cloud Run
Northflank
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Google Cloud Run incidents
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 8m
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore +32 more
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 10m
Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner +10 more
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 40m
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build +21 more
Recent Northflank incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · ongoing
- Degraded performanceOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 51m
- Degraded performanceSep 25, 2026 · resolved in 46m
- Degraded performanceSep 4, 2026 · resolved in 2h 25m
- Partial outageAug 5, 2026 · resolved in 1h 1m
Other app hosting platforms to consider
- DigitalOcean App Platform · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- Heroku · #2 · 99.95% uptime
- Koyeb · #3 · 99.64% uptime
- Render · #4 · 99.71% uptime