6 free alternatives to Render

Leapcell's free Hobby plan gives you 20 projects, support for Next.js, Python, Go, Rust, and more, plus monthly quotas for serverless usage, Redis, builds, logs, and async tasks. You get up to 3 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM per project, 100,000 serverless invocations, 3 GB-hours of serverless duration, 2 GB of transfer, 100,000 Redis commands, 60 build minutes, and 7-day metrics retention. It also includes custom domains with SSL, logs, and traffic analytics. Compared with Render, it offers much more compute per project and a broader serverless workload model. It falls short on workspace-style simplicity and does not give you Render's managed hosting primitives in the same way. Switch if you want a free app platform with more per-app headroom and can work within a project-centric model.

• Beats Render: More compute per project: up to 3 vCPUs and 4 GB RAM
• Falls short: Less workspace-oriented and fewer managed hosting primitives
• Who should switch: Switch here if your free app needs more CPU and memory than Render's 0.1 CPU, 512 MB service cap.

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Koyeb's free tier includes one web service and one Postgres database per organization, with 512 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU, 2 GB SSD, 100 GB outbound bandwidth, and community support. The free Postgres also includes 1 GB of storage, 0.25 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, and 5 hours of active time per month at $0 per hour. That makes it a simple way to run a tiny web app plus a database without monthly spend, and the bandwidth allowance is far above Render's 5 GB. It falls short on breadth, since you only get one web service and one database. Switch if your main constraint is bandwidth or you only need a single small service and database.

• Beats Render: 100 GB outbound bandwidth per month
• Falls short: Only one free web service and one free Postgres database per org
• Who should switch: Switch here if Render's 5 GB bandwidth cap is the first thing blocking you.

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Vercel's free Hobby plan is for personal, non-commercial use and includes deployment from a repo, automatic CI/CD, a global CDN, DDoS mitigation, traffic and performance insights, 1M Edge Requests, 100 GB Fast Data Transfer, 1 GB Blob storage, and 1 developer seat. It also includes Functions, Workflow events, Queues API operations, rate limiting, image transformations, and built-in security features like WAF protection. Compared with Render, it gives far more edge and frontend-oriented delivery capacity and much richer client-side platform features. It falls short if you want the classic always-on service and database model that Render emphasizes. Switch if your workload is a web app or frontend-heavy deployment and you value edge delivery over workspace-based hosting.

• Beats Render: Much larger edge and transfer quotas: 1M Edge Requests and 100 GB transfer
• Falls short: More frontend and edge focused, less centered on always-on services and databases
• Who should switch: Switch here if you care more about web delivery and edge compute than Render-style service hosting.

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Deno Deploy's free plan includes 1M inbound HTTP requests per month, 20 GB egress, up to 50 custom domains per organization, 15 hours of CPU time, 350 GB-hours of memory time, 20 active apps, 5 team members, 1 GiB of volume storage, 1 GiB of KV storage, KV read and write quotas, one database region, cache APIs, real-time log streaming, 1 day of log retention, and Terraform deployment support. It also includes sandboxed code execution and community support via Discord. Against Render, it offers much more request volume, broader app count, and far more custom domains on the free tier. It falls short if you need Render's managed Postgres and Key Value services, or a more general app platform beyond Deno and edge-style deployments. Switch if you want generous free usage for TypeScript-first serverless apps.

• Beats Render: 1M requests per month and up to 20 active apps
• Falls short: Less aligned with managed app services like Render Postgres and KV
• Who should switch: Switch here if you are deploying TypeScript or JavaScript apps and need more free request headroom.

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8base's free plan covers backend web app building with serverless functions, GraphQL API access, CLI access, community support, 1 team member, 1 frontend application per project, previewing and deployment, asset storage, theming, CI/CD environments, authorization profiles, authentication, custom functions, GraphQL subscriptions, custom API domains with SSL, database views, custom indexes, hosting region selection, encryption, backup and restore, and a frontend CDN. The free tier also includes up to 2,500 database rows, 0.5 GB of files, 1 GB-hour of serverless computing, 2 GB of bandwidth, 100,000 GraphQL API calls, 100,000 subscription events, and up to 5 client app users. Compared with Render, it gives you a more opinionated backend and data layer. It falls short on general hosting flexibility and has very small storage and usage limits. Switch if your free project is more of a backend app or GraphQL product than a general deployment target.

• Beats Render: Built-in backend and GraphQL features with 100,000 API calls
• Falls short: Much smaller storage and compute headroom than Render's app-hosting focus
• Who should switch: Switch here if you want a free backend-first platform with GraphQL and data modeling built in.

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Netlify's free plan is free forever and includes 300 credits per month, deploys from AI, Git, or API, unlimited deploy previews, custom domains with SSL, Functions and AI models, Netlify Database Basic, Blob storage, firewall traffic rules, a global CDN, 1 member, 1 concurrent build, 1 preview server, and short retention windows for observability and logs. It is a strong fit for static sites and frontend apps that benefit from previews and a simple Git-based workflow. Compared with Render, it offers a wider set of frontend deployment paths and unlimited previews, but it is more constrained on build concurrency and monthly credits. Switch if your use case is a site or frontend app where preview workflows matter more than service count.

• Beats Render: Unlimited deploy previews
• Falls short: Only 1 concurrent build and 300 credits per month
• Who should switch: Switch here if your main need is frontend previews and simple static or app hosting.

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