Yes, Render has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes Deploy up to 25 services per workspace, 5 GB of bandwidth per month, and Provides 1 team seat. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about $8.00/mo.
About
Render is a cloud platform for builders that helps teams deploy and run applications, APIs, background jobs, databases, cron jobs, and workflows with minimal operational overhead.
It provides managed infrastructure primitives for modern software delivery, including web services, static sites, private services, Postgres databases, key-value storage, autoscaling, preview environments, zero-downtime deploys, and integrated observability.
- Managed hosting for web services, static sites, and private services
- Fully managed Postgres and Redis-compatible key-value storage
- Autoscaling, preview environments, and zero-downtime deploys
- Infrastructure as code, Docker support, and REST API access
- Integrated logs, metrics, and monitoring for deployed services
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable, but it is capped: 25 services, 5 GB of bandwidth, 500 build minutes, 5 retained builds, and only 1 workspace/seat. The cheapest paid workspace plan is Pro at $25/month, and the free offering covers a meaningful slice of that experience, so it’s worth about $8/month; a credit card is required to sign up, which adds some friction.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to Hobby workspace plan at $0/month for personal projects and prototypes.
- Deploy up to 25 services per workspace.
- Includes 5 GB of bandwidth per month.
- Supports single-service previews.
- Includes global regions and CDN.
- Allows custom domains.
- Includes firewall and DDoS mitigation.
- Includes database point-in-time recovery.
- Includes email support.
- Provides 1 team seat.
- Includes 1 workspace.
- Includes 1 project with 2 environments.
- Includes 500 build minutes per month.
- Includes 7 days of log retention.
- Includes SSH access.
- Includes health checks.
- Includes service metrics.
- Includes notifications.
- Supports automatic builds.
- Supports standard build pipeline.
- Supports native runtimes.
- Supports Docker builds.
- Includes environment variables and secret files.
- Supports monorepo projects.
- Includes auto-deploys.
- Supports zero-downtime deploys.
- Includes deploy hooks.
- Supports pre-deploy commands.
- Keeps 5 builds retained.
- Includes automatic private networking.
- Supports HTTPS only.
- Includes automatic DDoS mitigation.
- Includes automatic TLS.
- Includes 2 custom domains.
- Includes community support.
- Supports free web services with 512 MB RAM and 0.1 CPU.
- Supports free Render Postgres with 256 MB RAM, 100 connections, and a 30-day limit.
- Supports free Render Key Value with 25 MB RAM and 50 connections.
See Render pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Pro
- bandwidth
- 25 GB included per month
- custom_domains
- 15 included
- build_minutes
- 1K mins per month
- builds_retained
- 15 builds retained
- environments
- Unlimited
- team_seats
- Unlimited
- Unlimited seats & services
- 25 GB bandwidth included
- Full-stack previews
- Horizontal autoscaling
- Isolated environments
- OIDC authentication
- AWS Private Links
- Workspace audit logs
Scale
- bandwidth
- 1 TB included per month
- custom_domains
- 25 included
- build_minutes
- 5K mins per workspace per mo.
- builds_retained
- 30 builds retained
- environments
- Unlimited
- team_seats
- Unlimited
- Multiple workspaces
- 1 TB bandwidth included
- Extended metrics retention
- Inbound IP rules
- HIPAA-compliant workspaces
- SAML SSO & SCIM
- Advanced RBAC roles
- Organization audit logs
Enterprise
- workspaces
- Unlimited
- team_seats
- Unlimited
- Contractual uptime SLAs
- Technical account manager
- Support Slack channel
- Support response SLAs
Pricing extracted from Render's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Render free forever?
Yes. Render has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Render's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Render's cheapest paid plan is Pro at $25 / month.
What is Render's free tier worth?
Render's free tier is worth about $8.00 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 48/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
