How much does Render cost?

Render publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $7/month for Starter. The entry tier costs nothing.

Does Render have a free plan?

Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 1 web service, 1 static site, shared cpu. Paying starts at $7/month for Starter.

What is the difference between Free and Starter on Render?

Starter costs $7/month against Free, and adds unlimited services, dedicated cpu, 2gb ram, 1tb bandwidth.

Does Render charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Render prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Render against before paying?

Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Render to make a useful price comparison.

Software · pricing

Render pricing

Render publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Usage-based
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Render plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Render pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Free	Free	5	Entry tier
Starter	$7/month	4	+$7/month, 4 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Free

The entry tier. It covers 1 web service, 1 static site, shared cpu, 0.5gb ram, 100gb bandwidth.

Starter

$7/month

Over Free, this tier adds:

Unlimited services
Dedicated CPU
2GB RAM
1TB bandwidth

Where Render stops being free

Free, Free

1 web service
1 static site
Shared CPU
0.5GB RAM
100GB bandwidth

Starter, $7/month

The first thing you pay for:

Unlimited services
Dedicated CPU
2GB RAM
1TB bandwidth

What the product covers

The full Render feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Web services
Static sites
Background workers
Postgres database
Redis database
Scheduled jobs
Environment variables
Custom domains

Integrations

GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
Docker
Python
Node.js
Go

Security

HTTPS
Automatic SSL
DDoS protection

Deployment

Cloud deployment

Platform

Web support
Api support

People bring Render in for deploying web services, static sites and cron jobs from a git repository without managing servers, running managed postgres and redis alongside application services, preview environments per pull request for small teams. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Render are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

Before you pay for Render

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $7/month, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Render runs on web, api, and is published by Render of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Render review.

Render pricing on the vendor's own site

Render pricing questions

How much does Render cost?: Render publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $7/month for Starter. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Render have a free plan?: Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers 1 web service, 1 static site, shared cpu. Paying starts at $7/month for Starter.
What is the difference between Free and Starter on Render?: Starter costs $7/month against Free, and adds unlimited services, dedicated cpu, 2gb ram, 1tb bandwidth.
What am I actually paying for with Render?: The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for deploying web services, static sites and cron jobs from a git repository without managing servers, running managed postgres and redis alongside application services, preview environments per pull request for small teams.
Does Render charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Render prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Render against before paying?: Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Render to make a useful price comparison.

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