Render
- Free tier
- Yes
- Limits tracked
- 8
- Last checked
- Last change
- None recorded
About Render
Web services, workers, cron jobs and Postgres in one dashboard.
Render runs many kinds of services side by side: static sites, web services, private services, background workers, cron jobs and workflows, along with managed Render Postgres, Render Key Value (Redis-compatible) and persistent disks. A Blueprint file (render.yaml) describes a multi-service setup as code, and preview environments can be created for a single service or a whole Blueprint. Free instances are available for web services, Postgres and Key Value, and static sites are free to deploy, but Render says not to use free instances for production. A free web service spins down when it gets no traffic for a while and takes time to wake up, and free Postgres databases expire a set time after they are created.
Characteristics
- Static sites, web services, private services, background workers, cron jobs and workflows
- Managed Render Postgres and Render Key Value (Redis-compatible)
- Blueprints (render.yaml) for infrastructure as code, plus a Terraform provider
- Preview environments for one service or a whole Blueprint
Summarized by TierDiff from the vendor's own documentation, checked on Oct 16, 2026. Sources: Render docs, Render docs — Deploy for free, Render docs — Regions
What the free tier includes
Each number is copied from render.com as it read on Oct 23, 2026. Open a quote to see the exact sentence.
| Limit | Free amount | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bandwidth outData sent to visitors | 5 GB / mo | render.comchecked Oct 23 Show the quote…touch Connect your repo, and go Deploy up to 25 services 5 GB of bandwidth included Single-service previews Global… |
| Build minutesTime spent building and testing | 500 min / mo | render.comchecked Oct 23 Show the quote…— Build & Deploy Automatic builds Standard build pipeline 500 mins per month then $5 per 1K mins 1K mins per month then… |
| Compute hoursTime your service runs | 750 hr / mo | render.comchecked Oct 23 Show the quote…Monthly usage limits Free instance hours Render grants 750 Free instance hours to each workspace per calendar month:… |
| Time before sleepIdle time before the service stops | 15 min | render.comchecked Oct 23 Show the quote…on idle Render spins down a Free web service that goes 15 minutes without receiving any inbound traffic. This… |
| MemoryRAM of a free instance | 512 MB | render.comchecked Oct 23 Show the quote…$0.25/GB per month | Free (limitations apply) | $0/month | 512 MB RAM | free | Less than 1 CPU | $7/month | 512 MB RAM |… |
| Data retentionHow long data is kept | 7 days | render.comchecked Oct 23 Show the quote…Health checks Service metrics Notifications Log retention 7 days 14 days 30 days 30 days Log streams HTTP request… |
| Team membersPeople on the account | 1 | render.comchecked Oct 23 Show the quote…metrics stream — Platform Access & Security Team seats 1 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Workspaces 1 1 Unlimited… |
| Sites / projectsHow many you can publish | 25 | render.comchecked Oct 23 Show the quote…Scale Get in touch Connect your repo, and go Deploy up to 25 services 5 GB of bandwidth included Single-service… |
Render next to other hosting
The same limits for 14 services in this category. Render is the highlighted row.
| Service | Bandwidth out | Memory | Sites / projects | Team members | Build minutes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Render Web services, background workers, cron jobs and Postgres side by side in one dashboard. This page | 5 GB | 512 | 25 | 1 | 500 | render.comchecked Oct 23 |
| Azure App Service | not published | 1,024 | not published | not published | not published | azure.microsoft.comchecked Oct 22 |
| Cloudflare Pages Static sites on Cloudflare's network, with server code billed as Workers requests. | Unlimited | not published | 100 | not published | not published | developers.cloudflare.comchecked Oct 22 |
| Cloudways Managed servers on a cloud you choose, for WordPress and PHP apps; a trial, no free plan. Trial only | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | cloudways.comchecked Oct 22 |
| DigitalOcean App Platform DigitalOcean's PaaS: deploy from Git or a container image, next to its managed databases. | 1 GB | not published | 3 | not published | not published | digitalocean.comchecked Oct 22 |
| Fly.io Fast-starting VMs called Machines, run in regions near your users, Tokyo included. Trial only | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | fly.iochecked Oct 22 |
| GitHub Pages Publish a static site from a GitHub repository, built with Jekyll or GitHub Actions. | 100 GB | not published | not published | not published | not published | docs.github.comchecked Oct 22 |
| Google App Engine | not published | 384 | not published | not published | not published | cloud.google.comchecked Oct 22 |
| Heroku Deploy with git push; buildpacks, dynos and add-ons. Free plans ended in 2022. No free tier | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | heroku.comchecked Oct 23 |
| Koyeb Serverless containers and GPUs that scale to zero when idle, with a Tokyo region. No free tier | not published | not published | not published | not published | not published | koyeb.comchecked Oct 23 |
| Netlify Git deploys with a Deploy Preview per pull request; HTML forms collected with no server. | not published | not published | not published | 1 | not published | netlify.comchecked Oct 22 |
| Railway Build a project on a canvas from repos, images and templates; pay for resources used. | not published | 512 | not published | not published | not published | railway.comchecked Oct 23 |
| Sevalla Static Site Hosting (Kinsta) Kinsta's Sevalla: static sites deployed from Git and served through Cloudflare's CDN. | 100 GB | not published | 100 | not published | 600 | sevalla.comchecked Oct 23 |
| Vercel Hosting from the team that maintains Next.js, with preview URLs for each branch and PR. | 100 GB | not published | not published | 1 | not published | vercel.comchecked Oct 23 |
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