Begin vs. Celest vs. NXT1 LaunchIT vs. Northflank Comparison Chart

Write your backend like a Flutter app, and deploy it like magic. Celest is a cloud platform tailored for Flutter developers, enabling them to build, deploy, and manage backends entirely in Dart. By annotating any Dart function with the cloud, developers can transform it into a serverless function, streamlining backend logic within the Flutter ecosystem. Celest seamlessly integrates with Drift schemas, automatically generating databases to simplify data management. Deployment is efficient, requiring just a single command. This process initializes Celest, migrates the project, warms up the engines, and deploys to Celest cloud, culminating in a live project URL. The platform supports features like Dart cloud functions, Flutter on the server, server-side widgets (coming soon), hot reload, auto-serialization, and client generation. Celest is designed to enhance the development experience for Flutter developers.

The self-service developer platform for your apps, databases, and jobs. Start with one workload, and scale to hundreds on compute or GPUs. Accelerate every step from push to production with highly configurable self-service workflows, pipelines, templates, and GitOps. Securely deploy preview, staging, and production environments with observability tooling, backups, restores, and rollbacks included. Northflank seamlessly integrates with your preferred tooling and can accommodate any tech stack. Whether you deploy on Northflank’s secure infrastructure or on your own cloud account, you get the same exceptional developer experience, and total control over your data residency, deployment regions, security, and cloud expenses. Northflank leverages Kubernetes as an operating system to give you the best of cloud-native, without the overhead. Deploy to Northflank’s cloud for maximum simplicity, or connect your GKE, EKS, AKS, or bare-metal to deliver a managed platform experience in minutes.