# Koyeb vs Render

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/koyeb-vs-render/

Every value below is read from Koyeb's and Render's own documentation. See https://inetgeek.com/methodology/ for how.

## At a glance

| Criterion | Koyeb | Render |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing model | A monthly plan fee plus pay-per-use compute, accounted per second and rounded up, charged at the end of the calendar month after the included free credit is consumed. | The Hobby plan does not have a monthly fee, so you only pay for usage. |
| Scales to zero | Supported | Supported |
| Autoscaling | Supported | Limited — Requires a Pro workspace plan or higher; scales on CPU or memory utilisation targets. |
| Regions | Six core regions — Frankfurt, Washington D.C., Singapore, Tokyo, Paris and AWS us-east-1 — plus San Francisco in preview. | Oregon, USA; Ohio, USA; Virginia, USA; Frankfurt, Germany; Singapore |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% from Scale ($299/month) and 99.99% on Enterprise. Pro, the entry paid plan at $29/month, carries none. | Enterprise only, and custom-priced. Hobby, Professional and Organization publish no uptime SLA, and no percentage is given for the Enterprise one. |
| Support on entry paid plan | Email support and chat on Pro ($29/month), the entry paid plan. Higher tiers add a private Slack channel and 24x7x365 priority support. | Chat support, from the free Hobby plan upward. Professional ($25/month plus compute) adds seats, bandwidth and features but no separate support tier. |

## Where they differ

### Pricing model

- Koyeb: A monthly plan fee plus pay-per-use compute, accounted per second and rounded up, charged at the end of the calendar month after the included free credit is consumed. ([source](https://www.koyeb.com/pricing))
- Render: The Hobby plan does not have a monthly fee, so you only pay for usage. ([source](https://render.com/docs/new-workspace-plans))

### Autoscaling

- Koyeb: Supported ([source](https://www.koyeb.com/docs/reference/scaling))
- Render: Limited — Requires a Pro workspace plan or higher; scales on CPU or memory utilisation targets. ([source](https://render.com/docs/scaling))

### Regions

- Koyeb: Six core regions — Frankfurt, Washington D.C., Singapore, Tokyo, Paris and AWS us-east-1 — plus San Francisco in preview. ([source](https://www.koyeb.com/docs/reference/regions))
- Render: Oregon, USA; Ohio, USA; Virginia, USA; Frankfurt, Germany; Singapore ([source](https://render.com/docs/regions))

### Uptime SLA

- Koyeb: 99.9% from Scale ($299/month) and 99.99% on Enterprise. Pro, the entry paid plan at $29/month, carries none. ([source](https://www.koyeb.com/pricing))
- Render: Enterprise only, and custom-priced. Hobby, Professional and Organization publish no uptime SLA, and no percentage is given for the Enterprise one. ([source](https://render.com/pricing))

### Support on entry paid plan

- Koyeb: Email support and chat on Pro ($29/month), the entry paid plan. Higher tiers add a private Slack channel and 24x7x365 priority support. ([source](https://www.koyeb.com/pricing))
- Render: Chat support, from the free Hobby plan upward. Professional ($25/month plus compute) adds seats, bandwidth and features but no separate support tier. ([source](https://render.com/pricing))

## Which should you choose?

Pick Koyeb if Container and web workloads that suit per-second billing and scale-to-zero across six regions without running Kubernetes yourself, where a flat $29 plan fee on top of compute buys team seats, concurrent builds and email support.

Pick Render if Workloads that need real background workers and persistent processes alongside web services, deployed from a repository or a Dockerfile. Managed Postgres and static sites run on the same platform.

Consider something else: Koyeb — A contractual uptime commitment matters at the entry price: Koyeb attaches 99.9% to its Scale plan at $299 a month, ten times the cost of Pro, and Pro carries none.

Consider something else: Render — Free web services spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, which makes the free tier unsuitable for anything that must answer immediately.

## Documented by only one

- Kind of free offer: Render: Free tier
- What the free plan includes: Render: Free instances of web services, Render Postgres and Key Value, plus static sites at no charge. Free instances carry documented limitations.
- Credit card to start: Render: No — Free services run without one until the workspace's included bandwidth or pipeline minutes run out.
- When the free offer ends: Render: Free Postgres databases expire 30 days after creation, with a 14-day grace period to upgrade to a paid plan.
- Entry paid plan: Koyeb: $29/month for Pro, plus compute. The plan fee buys team and support features; compute is billed separately per second.
- When you exceed a cap: Render: Pipeline minutes: overage is auto-purchased, but with no payment method or once the monthly spend limit is reached Render stops running pipeline tasks, builds included.
- Storage (entry plan): Render: No persistent disk is included on any instance type, including the entry `0.5c-512mb` plan; services run on an ephemeral filesystem unless a persistent disk is attached separately
- Memory (entry plan): Render: 512 MB RAM (with 0.5 CPU) on the 0.5c-512mb instance type, the cheapest paid web service compute plan.
- Sites or apps included: Render: 25 total services on the Hobby workspace plan (Render's entry workspace tier, compute billed separately); also limited to a single team member
- Monthly visits cap: Render: No request-count cap is published; traffic is capped by outbound bandwidth, 5 GB/month included on Hobby and 25 GB on Pro.
- Included bandwidth: Render: Hobby: 5 GB; Pro: 25 GB; Scale: 1 TB; Enterprise: Custom
- Build allowance: Render: 500 build-pipeline minutes a month on Hobby, 1,000 on Pro, 5,000 on Scale. Minutes, not builds.
- Concurrent builds: Render: One active build per service, platform-wide on all plans; a new build cancels the in-progress one for that service
- Managed connection pooling: Render: Supported
- Git deployment: Render: Supported
- Docker deployment: Render: Supported
- Containers: Render: Supported
- Scheduled jobs: Render: Supported
- Persistent processes: Render: Supported
- Persistent storage: Render: Supported
- Managed databases: Render: Supported
- Edge network: Render: Supported

## Questions this comparison answers

**Should I choose Koyeb or Render?**

Pick Koyeb if Container and web workloads that suit per-second billing and scale-to-zero across six regions without running Kubernetes yourself, where a flat $29 plan fee on top of compute buys team seats, concurrent builds and email support.
Pick Render if Workloads that need real background workers and persistent processes alongside web services, deployed from a repository or a Dockerfile. Managed Postgres and static sites run on the same platform.