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Render Pricing: Plans & Cost Calculator 2026

Render pairs a genuine free tier with flat workspace plans, Pro at $25 a month and Scale at $499, then bills compute on top as you use it. What you pay depends on what you run.

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Render plans and pricing

High· Verified July 16, 2026

Free

Hobby

Personal projects

Free

Connect your repo and deploy

Up to 25 services

5 GB bandwidth included

Single-service previews

Global regions & CDN

Custom domains

Firewall & DDoS mitigation

Database PITR

Email support

Get started

Plan

Pro

Teams & production

$25/mo

Everything in Hobby, plus:

No service maximum

25 GB bandwidth included

Full-stack previews

Horizontal autoscaling

Isolated environments

Private links

Workspace audit logs

AWS OIDC integration (beta)

Chat support

Choose Pro

Plan

Scale

Enterprise-ready

$499/mo

Everything in Pro, plus:

Multiple workspaces

1 TB bandwidth included

Extended metrics retention

HIPAA-compliant workspaces

SAML SSO & SCIM

Advanced RBAC roles

Organization audit logs

Choose Scale

Custom

Enterprise

Large orgs

Custom

Dedicated support and uptime SLAs

Web services with HTTP/2 and full TLS

Support for Node, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Elixir

Private services

Custom Docker containers

Background workers

Persistent disks

Automatic private networking

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Render pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerHigh· Verified July 16, 2026

Render's paid workspaces run $25 a month for Pro and $499 for Scale as of July 16, 2026, with a free Hobby tier and custom Enterprise, but that flat fee is only the entry ticket because compute and bandwidth bill on top as you use them. Hobby covers up to 25 services and 5 GB of bandwidth before idle web services spin down; Pro lifts the service cap with 25 GB included; Scale bundles 1 TB, then bills per extra GB. Read the plan price as a floor, not the bill.

HobbyFree
Pro$25/mo
Scale$499/mo
EnterpriseCustom

Run your numbers in the cost calculator: pick a plan, add your expected usage, and see the full monthly bill.

Free tier

Yes

Billing model

Freemium

Cheapest paid

$25/mo

Annual discount

Not offered

At $25/mo to start, Render sits 127% above the $11/mo median across 19 cloud hosting tools we track.

Render cost calculator

Render Hidden Costs & Pitfalls

What sits on top of the plan fee

The plan fee is only the floor. On Render you pay separately for the compute and bandwidth you actually use, so two teams on the same Pro plan can end up with very different bills.

Web service compute

Billed by the active minute, per instance size. A Standard instance (2 GB, 1 CPU) runs about $9.70 a month if it never sleeps; a Pro instance (4 GB, 2 CPU) about $33. Scale-to-zero trims this for traffic that comes and goes.

$3 to $33+/mo per service

Managed databases: Postgres and Key Value are separate ladders

Databases bill apart from the workspace fee, and Render runs two different ladders. Managed Postgres starts at $6 a month for a 256 MB Basic instance, $19 for 1 GB, and $75 for 4 GB, then climbs through Pro tiers ($55 to $6,200) and Accelerated tiers up to $11,000 a month. Render Key Value, its Redis-compatible store, is a separate ladder: $10 for a 256 MB Starter, $32 for 1 GB, $135 for 5 GB, up to $1,100 for the largest tier. Older pricing that listed 'Postgres' at $7, $32, and $135 was the Key Value table mislabeled, so size the two on their own numbers.

$6 to $11,000/mo (Postgres); $10 to $1,100/mo (Key Value)

Bandwidth

Each plan includes some egress: 5 GB on Hobby, 25 GB on Pro, 1 TB on Scale. Go past it and you pay per GB, which stacks up on a busy app.

Per GB over the allowance

Free database expiry

The free Postgres instance is wiped after 30 days. Anything you need to keep means moving to a paid database tier, which starts at $6 a month for a 256 MB Basic instance.

Pushes real projects onto a paid DB

The renewal jump, credit expiry and every discount worth having are in the Render true cost guide, with an email generator for negotiating team and enterprise rates.

Render Cost Analysis

Render pricing, read against its live plans and category

Checked against current plan data

Positioning

$25/moentry price

127% above the category median

low $0.83median $11 · n=19high $35

Render's plan fee is flat, not per-seat: the Hobby tier is free, Pro is $25 a month, and Scale is $499. The real cost driver is pay-as-you-go compute, billed on top by instance type, so a plan that looks cheap can still run up a bill under load. The free tier is generous for static sites, but the 15-minute spin-downs and the 90-day free-database expiry make it a poor fit for production. Small teams that care about developer speed will like Pro; heavy or high-bandwidth workloads will feel the usage bill.

Cost drivers

1Compute sits outside the plan fee: web services bill per active minute by instance type, databases bill monthly by tier.
2Bandwidth past the included allowance (5 GB Hobby, 25 GB Pro, 1 TB Scale) is billed per extra GB, which climbs fast on a busy app.
3The free PostgreSQL database expires after 90 days, so persistent testing means a paid tier.

Watch-outs

On high-bandwidth apps or big staging setups, the metered compute and egress can quietly become the main cost. Developers report demo and traffic-heavy projects scaling well past what raw cloud providers charge.

Strengths

The free Hobby tier gives you zero-config deploys straight from a Git repo, and Pro holds at a flat $25 a month before compute.

Zero-config deploys directly from a Git repository
A flat plan fee with predictable per-instance compute rates
Native support for background workers, cron jobs, and Redis

What users say

“For production applications render is great. It”

s a bit expensive, but the DX is worth it." - Reddit

“I spent just a month with Render.com and the DX and pricing is great”

Editor’s take

Solo developers and early-stage startups should start on the free Hobby tier and step up to Pro at $25 a month for the developer experience once they outgrow it, keeping an eye on compute. Teams with heavy bandwidth or big infrastructure should compare Render's usage bill against DigitalOcean at $4 a month for more predictable raw virtual machines.

Oleh KemFounder & Lead Analyst

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 16, 2026

Render price history

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