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

What's included in the free tier

  • 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.