# Render

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/render/

Managed cloud platform that builds and runs web services, background workers, static sites and databases from Git repositories or Docker images.

## Who it suits

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 if Free web services spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, which makes the free tier unsuitable for anything that must answer immediately.

## iScore

74 / 100 (80% interval 70–77), rank 1 of 11 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/render/alternatives/

- Price: 76 (70–82), weight 25%, 3 of 5 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: egress_overage_price, minimum_paid_price
- Capacity and limits: 43 (32–54), weight 20%, 4 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: max_request_duration, regions
- Capabilities: 89 (79–100), weight 20%, 11 of 12 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: streaming_response_limit
- Trust and compliance: 67 (60–73), weight 15%, 6 of 11 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: encryption_at_rest, iso27001, pci_dss, support_response_time, uptime_sla
- Evidence: 100 (100–100), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 81 (71–91), weight 10%, 1 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://render.com/docs/free), read 2026-09-13)
- Kind of free offer: Free tier ([source](https://render.com/docs/free), read 2026-09-14)
- What the free plan includes: Free instances of web services, Render Postgres and Key Value, plus static sites at no charge. Free instances carry documented limitations. ([source](https://render.com/docs/free), read 2026-09-13)
- Credit card to start: No — Free services run without one until the workspace's included bandwidth or pipeline minutes run out. ([source](https://render.com/docs/free), read 2026-09-13)
- When the free offer ends: Free Postgres databases expire 30 days after creation, with a 14-day grace period to upgrade to a paid plan. ([source](https://render.com/docs/free), read 2026-09-13)
- Pricing model: The Hobby plan does not have a monthly fee, so you only pay for usage. ([source](https://render.com/docs/new-workspace-plans), read 2026-09-05)
- When you exceed a cap: 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. ([source](https://render.com/docs/build-pipeline), read 2026-09-14)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 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 ([source](https://render.com/docs/disks), read 2026-09-05)
- Memory (entry plan): 512 MB RAM (with 0.5 CPU) on the 0.5c-512mb instance type, the cheapest paid web service compute plan. ([source](https://render.com/docs/compute-plans), read 2026-09-14)
- Sites or apps included: 25 total services on the Hobby workspace plan (Render's entry workspace tier, compute billed separately); also limited to a single team member ([source](https://render.com/docs/new-workspace-plans), read 2026-09-05)
- Monthly visits cap: No request-count cap is published; traffic is capped by outbound bandwidth, 5 GB/month included on Hobby and 25 GB on Pro. ([source](https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth), read 2026-09-14)
- Included bandwidth: Hobby: 5 GB; Pro: 25 GB; Scale: 1 TB; Enterprise: Custom ([source](https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth), read 2026-09-14)
- Build allowance: 500 build-pipeline minutes a month on Hobby, 1,000 on Pro, 5,000 on Scale. Minutes, not builds. ([source](https://render.com/docs/build-pipeline), read 2026-09-14)
- Concurrent builds: One active build per service, platform-wide on all plans; a new build cancels the in-progress one for that service ([source](https://render.com/docs/build-pipeline), read 2026-09-05)

### Execution

- Managed connection pooling: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-connection-pooling), read 2026-09-05)

### Deployment

- Git deployment: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/github), read 2026-09-05)
- Docker deployment: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/docker), read 2026-09-05)
- Containers: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/docker), read 2026-09-05)
- Scheduled jobs: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/cronjobs), read 2026-09-05)

### Infrastructure

- Persistent processes: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/background-workers), read 2026-09-05)
- Persistent storage: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/disks), read 2026-09-05)
- Managed databases: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/postgresql), read 2026-09-05)
- Edge network: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/static-sites), read 2026-09-05)
- Scales to zero: Supported ([source](https://render.com/docs/free), read 2026-09-05)
- Autoscaling: Limited — Requires a Pro workspace plan or higher; scales on CPU or memory utilisation targets. ([source](https://render.com/docs/scaling), read 2026-09-14)
- Regions: Oregon, USA; Ohio, USA; Virginia, USA; Frankfurt, Germany; Singapore ([source](https://render.com/docs/regions), read 2026-09-14)
- Uptime SLA: 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), read 2026-09-14)

### Auth

- Audit logs: Built-in audit logging and monitoring for platform events. ([source](https://render.com/), read 2026-09-21)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: 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), read 2026-09-14)

### Compliance

- HIPAA: Meet SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR requirements without overhead. ([source](https://render.com/), read 2026-09-21)
- GDPR / data residency: Meet SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and GDPR requirements without overhead. ([source](https://render.com/), read 2026-09-21)
- Private networking / VPC: Intuitive hosting and private networking for web services , Postgres databases , cron jobs , workflows , static sites , background jobs , key value stores , private services , WebSockets , edge caches , isolated environments , ([source](https://render.com/), read 2026-09-21)

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