- Starting price
- $25/mo
- Pricing
- Free plan
- Website
- render.com
About Render
Render is a cloud application hosting platform for developers. It serves teams who want to build, test, deploy, and scale apps, APIs, and AI workloads quickly with built-in preview environments and autoscaling.
Key Features
Render’s core functionality centers on quick deployment and scalable hosting across all stack elements, enabling testing, deployment, and scaling with minimal ops:
Preview Environments
built-in environments to test changes prior to deployment and share previews with stakeholders
Autoscaling
automatic scaling of services for bursts and AI workloads; orchestration is managed by Render, no cluster management required
Private Networking
private networks to securely connect services and resources, enabling isolated environments
Auto Deploys from Git
automatic deployments from Git repositories to keep code and running services in sync
Summary
Best for developers deploying apps and APIs, product teams shipping AI workloads, and startups needing fast previews and private networking.
Pricing
View pricingPlans and prices as listed on render.com as of Sep 24, 2026.
Hobby
$0/mo / monthly
- Deploy up to 25 services
- 5 GB of bandwidth included
- Single-service previews
- Global regions & CDN
- Custom domains
- Firewall & DDoS mitigation
- Database PITR
- Chat support
Pro
$25/mo / monthly
- Unlimited seats & services
- 25 GB bandwidth included
- Full-stack previews
- Horizontal autoscaling
- Isolated environments
- OIDC authentication
- AWS Private Links
- Workspace audit logs
Scale
$499/mo / monthly
- Multiple workspaces
- 1 TB of bandwidth included
- Extended metrics retention
- Inbound IP rules
- HIPAA-compliant workspaces
- SAML SSO & SCIM
- Advanced RBAC roles
- Organization audit logs
Enterprise
Custom pricing / monthly
- Contractual uptime SLAs
- Technical account manager
- Support Slack channel
- Support response SLAs
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