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Render

Fully managed cloud platform for web services, background workers, and static sites.

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Supported plans

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Free HobbyMonthly billing
$0/ month equivalent

Base $0 / month equivalent. Metered charges and allowances are included at the default workload.

Conditions and limitations

  • Free web services spin down after 15 minutes of inactivity and take up to 50 seconds to restart.
  • Persistent disks, custom scaling, log streams, and background workers.

Pricing checked 2026-10-05. Inspect source

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Individual StarterMonthly billing
$7.00/ month equivalent

Base $7.00 / month equivalent. Metered charges and allowances are included at the default workload.

Conditions and limitations

  • Starter instance provides 0.5 vCPU and 512 MB RAM running continuously without idle spin-down.
  • Multiple team members, preview environments, and autoscaling.

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Team StandardMonthly billing
$19.00/ month equivalent

Base $19.00 / month equivalent. Metered charges and allowances are included at the default workload.

Conditions and limitations

  • Team base price includes 1 seat, shared collaboration, priority build queues, and 100 GB egress.
  • Multi-region clusters, SOC 2 compliance report.

Pricing checked 2026-10-05. Inspect source

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Pricing observations

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  • Free Hobby · Base $0 / month equivalent · Monthly billing

    Official source ↗ · Usage charges are additional where modeled.

  • Individual Starter · Base $7.00 / month equivalent · Monthly billing

    Official source ↗ · Usage charges are additional where modeled.

  • Team Standard · Base $19.00 / month equivalent · Monthly billing

    Official source ↗ · Usage charges are additional where modeled.
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