What is Render?
Cloud platform for deploying and scaling applications, agents, databases, and background jobs with zero-ops infrastructure.
Render pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From free (Hobby) to $499/mo (Scale) + compute usage. Pay-as-you-go compute per service instance.
Hobby
FreeFor individuals building personal projects and prototypes
- services
- 25
- bandwidth
- 5 GB/mo
- Deploy up to 25 services
- 5 GB bandwidth included
- Single-service previews
- Global regions & CDN
- Custom domains with TLS
- Firewall & DDoS mitigation
- Database PITR
- Chat support
Pro
For teams deploying production-grade apps and agents
- bandwidth
- 25 GB/mo
- All Hobby features
- Unlimited team members
- No service maximum
- 25 GB bandwidth included
- Full-stack previews
- Horizontal autoscaling
- AWS private links & OIDC
- Isolated environments
- Workspace audit logs
Scale
For teams that need advanced governance and compliance
- bandwidth
- 1 TB/mo
- All Pro features
- Multiple workspaces
- 1 TB bandwidth included
- Extended metrics retention
- Inbound IP rules
- HIPAA-compliant workspaces
- SAML SSO & SCIM
- Advanced RBAC roles
- Organization audit logs
Enterprise
Contact salesFor teams that need dedicated support and uptime SLAs
- All Scale features
- Contractual uptime SLAs
- Technical account manager
- Support Slack channel
- Support response SLAs
Add-ons
- Compute (per service instance)$7/mo + $25/mo + $85/mo + $175/mo + $225/mo + $450/mo
- Render Postgres$0/mo + $6/mo
- Render Key Value$0/mo
- Storage (SSD)$0.25 per GB
- Postgres Storage$0.30 per GB
What Render does
The capabilities that matter for paas & hosting, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Git-push auto-deploy
- ✓
- Deploy arbitrary container image
- ✓
- Per-PR preview environments
- ✓
- Build system
- Buildpacks
- Runtime / language breadth
- Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Elixir, Docker
- Autoscaling
- Horizontal
- Geographic reach
- Global edge
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Bundled managed data services
- ✓
- Built-in global CDN / edge
- ✓
- Custom domains + automatic TLS
- ✓
- Env vars & secrets management
- ✓
- Instant rollbacks
- ✓
- CLI + deploy API
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Git (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
- Docker
- AWS
- Cloudflare
- Google Cloud Platform
Render alternatives
Other paas & hosting we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- VercelAgentic Infrastructure to ship apps and agentslow · 49%
- NetlifyPush your ideas to the webmedium · 64%
- KoyebHigh-performance Infrastructure for APIs, Inference, and Databasesmedium · 60%
- RailwayThe all-in-one intelligent cloud providermedium · 62%
- CoolifySelf-hosting with superpowerslow · 21%
- DokkuThe smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seenlow · 21%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Render, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 85 | 22.00 | 1870.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 12.00 | 1152.3 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 16.00 | 358.1 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"cloud","regions":"global_edge","edge_cdn":true,"runtimes":"Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Elixir, Docker","rollbacks":true,"autoscaling":"horizontal","cli_and_api":true,"env_secrets":true,"build_system":"buildpacks","git_push_deploy":true,"preview_deploys":true,"container_deploy":true,"managed_databases":true,"custom_domains_tls":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |