Render

A modern cloud platform for the next generation

As of 30 August 2026, Render is free to use. Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Render is launched in 2019, available on Web, API.

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Overview

What Render does

Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites. Deploy web services, APIs, static sites, scheduled jobs, and databases with zero configuration, pay only for what you use, and enjoy first-class support for Git, databases, and automatic SSL.

What people use it 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

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Render.

The free Hobby workspace is limited to 25 services and 5 GB of bandwidth
Every paid plan charges the workspace fee plus compute on top, so $25 per month for Pro is a floor rather than a total
SAML SSO and SCIM require the Scale plan at $499 per month
HIPAA-compliant workspaces, inbound IP rules and advanced RBAC roles are Scale plan features
Organization-level audit logs require Scale; Pro provides only workspace audit logs
Contractual uptime SLAs, support response SLAs and a technical account manager are Enterprise only, and Enterprise is custom priced with no published rate
Included bandwidth is 25 GB on Pro and 1 TB on Scale, with usage beyond that billed separately

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Render

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean: The developer cloud
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Grafana Cloud
Grafana Cloud: Composable observability platform
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Neon
Neon: Serverless Postgres for modern developers
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AWS (Amazon Web Services)
AWS (Amazon Web Services): The leading cloud computing platform

Pricing

What Render costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

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

Starter

$7 /mo

Unlimited services
Dedicated CPU
2GB RAM
1TB bandwidth

Capabilities

Features

Web services
Static sites
Background workers
Postgres database
Redis database
Scheduled jobs
Environment variables
Custom domains
GitHub
Integration with GitHub
GitLab
Integration with GitLab
Bitbucket
Integration with Bitbucket
Docker
Integration with Docker

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

What is Render's pricing?

Render's pricing details are not disclosed on the public pricing page. The site references workspace plans, compute services, and features but does not display specific costs. Users must visit the pricing page directly or contact Render for detailed information.

Source

Behind it

Who makes Render

Company: Render
Based in: San Francisco, CA

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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Render, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.