Render Pricing 2026 Plans Free vs Pro vs Enterprise Cost

Render pricing in 2026 starts at $0/month on Hobby (25 services, 5 GB bandwidth) and $25/month on Pro (unlimited seats + services, 25 GB bandwidth, horizontal autoscaling, isolated environments, OIDC, AWS Private Links, workspace audit logs). Scale is $499/month plus compute with HIPAA-compliant workspaces, SAML SSO and SCIM, advanced RBAC roles, 1 TB bandwidth, and organization audit logs. Enterprise is custom and adds contractual uptime SLAs, a dedicated TAM, and a private Slack channel. Compute is billed by the second: Starter $7/mo (512 MB, 0.5 CPU), Standard $25/mo (2 GB, 1 CPU), Pro $85/mo (4 GB, 2 CPU), Pro Plus $175/mo (8 GB, 4 CPU), Pro Max $225/mo (16 GB, 4 CPU), Pro Ultra $450/mo (32 GB, 8 CPU), Custom up to 512 GB / 64 vCPU. Managed Postgres Pro runs $55/mo (4 GB) to $6,200/mo (512 GB); Accelerated plans start $160/mo (16 GB) and reach $11,000/mo (1 TB). Persistent SSDs are $0.25/GB/month.

Last verified: September 17, 2026. Prices are taken from Render's public pricing page (render.com/pricing) and the Render docs; the platform has not changed plan tiers in 2026, though Sandbox and Workflows compute were added in early 2026 (Render blog, 2026).

• Hobby ($0/mo): 25 services, 5 GB bandwidth, single-service previews, DDoS mitigation, no SSO.
• Pro ($25/mo): unlimited seats + services, 25 GB bandwidth, full-stack previews, horizontal autoscaling, OIDC, AWS Private Links, workspace audit logs.
• Scale ($499/mo): 1 TB bandwidth, HIPAA, SAML SSO + SCIM, advanced RBAC, organization audit logs, extended metrics retention.
• Enterprise (custom): contractual uptime SLAs, dedicated TAM, private Slack channel, support response SLAs.
• Compute (per second): Starter $7, Standard $25, Pro $85, Pro Plus $175, Pro Max $225, Pro Ultra $450, Custom up to 512 GB / 64 vCPU.
• Postgres Pro: $55/mo (4 GB) up to $6,200/mo (512 GB); Accelerated from $160/mo (16 GB) to $11,000/mo (1 TB); SSDs $0.25/GB/mo.
• Persistent disks: $0.25/GB/month for SSD storage attached to web services.
• Static sites: free lightning-fast CDN, automatic Git deploys, instant cache invalidation, custom domains with managed TLS.

Plan-by-plan breakdown

Render sells four workspace tiers (Hobby, Pro, Scale, Enterprise) and a separate per-resource compute meter that runs across all of them. Hobby is intentionally capped: 25 services, 5 GB bandwidth, no horizontal autoscaling, no SSO, no organization audit log. It is fine for portfolios and prototypes but stops being workable once you have a real production workload.

Pro at $25/month per workspace is the sweet spot for most small teams. You get unlimited services and seats, 25 GB of egress, horizontal autoscaling for web services, isolated environments for staging/prod separation, OIDC authentication, AWS Private Links for peering into your VPC, and workspace audit logs. Compute is layered on top, so a Pro workspace running one Standard web service costs $25 + $25 = $50/month.

Scale at $499/month is where Render's compliance story starts. You get HIPAA-eligible workspaces, SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning, inbound IP rules, advanced RBAC roles, organization-level audit logs, extended metrics retention, and 1 TB of monthly bandwidth. It is roughly 20x the price of Pro, but for healthcare SaaS and regulated fintech it is the cheapest viable tier.

Enterprise is quote-based. Pricing reflects committed spend and volume, not a published rate. You get contractual uptime SLAs, a dedicated TAM, a private Slack channel, and named support response SLAs. Expect low-five-figures annually as a starting point, scaling into six figures for multi-region or HIPAA-critical deployments (Vendr transaction data, 2026).

Compute pricing on Render

Compute is billed by the second on Render, prorated to actual resource use. There are eight published tiers: Free ($0/mo, 512 MB / 0.1 CPU, sleeps on inactivity), Starter ($7/mo, 512 MB / 0.5 CPU), Standard ($25/mo, 2 GB / 1 CPU), Pro ($85/mo, 4 GB / 2 CPU), Pro Plus ($175/mo, 8 GB / 4 CPU), Pro Max ($225/mo, 16 GB / 4 CPU), Pro Ultra ($450/mo, 32 GB / 8 CPU), and Custom (up to 512 GB / 64 vCPU on Enterprise). The same tier table applies to web services, private services, and background workers, so a Standard background worker is also $25/month for 2 GB / 1 CPU.

For production Node, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, and Elixir services, Standard at $25/month is the most common starting point. If you need to handle steady traffic above 1 vCPU, jump to Pro ($85) or Pro Plus ($175) rather than running multiple Standard services. Horizontal autoscaling is included on Pro and above, so you can size for average load and let Render scale replicas under traffic spikes.

Persistent SSDs attached to a service are $0.25/GB/month. A 100 GB disk costs $25/month on top of compute; a 1 TB disk is $250/month. Egress (bandwidth) is metered separately per workspace tier: Hobby gets 5 GB included, Pro gets 25 GB, Scale gets 1 TB. Overage on Pro is $0.05/GB for North America/EU traffic, $0.10/GB for APAC, and $0.25/GB for Africa/India (Render docs, 2026).

Managed Postgres and Key Value on Render

Render Postgres runs on the same per-second billing model with three families: Free (30-day limit), Basic (development and small projects), and Pro (production with high availability and PITR). Basic plans are $6/mo (256 MB), $19/mo (1 GB), and $75/mo (4 GB), all at 100 connection limit. Pro plans start at $55/mo (4 GB, 100 connections) and scale to $6,200/mo (512 GB, 500 connections). Each Pro tier adds HA, connection pooling, and automated backups.

Accelerated Postgres is Render's performance-optimized tier with NVMe storage and higher IOPS. It starts at $160/mo (16 GB, 400 connections) and reaches $11,000/mo (1 TB, 500 connections). For read-heavy or analytics workloads on Postgres, this is where Render competes head-to-head with Crunchy Bridge and Supabase Pro. Storage beyond the included 1 GB SSD is $0.30/GB on Postgres (Render docs, 2026).

Key Value is Render's managed Redis-compatible store. Free up to 25 MB, then Starter ($10/mo, 256 MB, 250 connections, persistence), Standard ($32/mo, 1 GB, 1,000 connections), Pro ($135/mo, 5 GB, 5,000 connections), Pro Max ($550/mo, 20 GB, 20,000 connections, high CPU), Pro Ultra ($1,100/mo, 40 GB, 40,000 connections, high CPU, persistence). It is cheaper than running your own Redis on Render Standard compute once you cross the 1 GB line.

How Render compares to Heroku and Vercel

Render's pitch versus Heroku is simple: same PaaS ergonomics, ~50-70% lower compute prices, no per-dyno hour metering quirks. A 2 GB / 1 CPU web service is $25/mo on Render Standard vs $50/mo on Heroku Standard-2X or $250/mo on Heroku Performance-M. Render also runs background workers and cron jobs at the same per-instance prices, while Heroku charges separately for Worker dynos and Scheduler.

Versus Vercel, Render is the better choice for long-running services and traditional web apps. Vercel's pricing optimizes for static sites, Next.js SSR with high function-call volume, and edge-deployed serverless functions; Render's per-second compute model is more predictable for steady-state Node/Python workloads. If your site is mostly static and uses ISR or edge functions, Vercel is usually cheaper; if you run a Django/Rails/Express service with persistent connections, Render wins.

What enterprise buyers should do next

1. Estimate your steady-state vCPU and memory footprint before choosing a workspace tier. Pro ($25/mo) covers most small-to-mid workloads; jump to Scale ($499/mo) only when you need HIPAA or SAML SSO.
2. Build a Postgres sizing model: Pro plans reach $6,200/mo at 512 GB; if you need more headroom, Render Enterprise or a dedicated Crunchy Bridge cluster is cheaper per GB than scaling Render Pro linearly.
3. Lock in reserved compute where available (Render announced reserved-instance discounts for 1-year commitments in late 2025) if your workload is steady; per-second billing still applies for bursty workloads.

What to watch next

• Render's Sandbox and Workflows compute launched in early 2026 add agent-grade ephemeral compute; expect additional pricing tiers for these through 2026-2027.
• Salesforce's acquisition of Contentful (closed June 2026) is likely to trigger a similar CMS consolidation push on Render's web-services side; watch for bundled PaaS+CMS offerings through late 2026.
• AWS PrivateLink pricing on Pro ($25/mo) is currently flat; if Render introduces per-data-processed metering, Pro economics shift for high-egress workloads.