Render pricing
How Render charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.
How it charges
Checked 2026-10-03 on render.com ↗ · USD, list pricesA workspace plan ($0 Hobby, $25/month Pro with unlimited seats) plus $25 per month for each 1 CPU / 2 GB service, with 5 GB or 25 GB of bandwidth included and $0.15/GB beyond.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Cheapest paid plan
- $25/mo
- Side project
- $26/mo Hobby
- Growing
- $39/mo Hobby
- Scaling
- $174/mo Hobby
What the model leaves out
Instance = the 1c-2g compute size (1 CPU, 2 GB RAM), $25/month; the free 512 MB instance has limitations and can't serve as a 1 CPU / 2 GB server. Persistent disks ($0.25/GB-month), Postgres, Key Value, custom domains beyond the included count ($0.25 each) and extra build minutes are left out. Scale ($499/month, 1 TB bandwidth included) is omitted as a governance/compliance plan; Enterprise is contact-sales. A Pro workspace with no services and no activity in a month has its fee waived.
- Bandwidth beyond the plan's allowance (5 GB on Hobby, 25 GB on Pro) costs $0.15/GB.
- Hobby has one team seat; adding a teammate means moving to Pro at $25/month.
- Compute is per service: each web service, worker or private service runs on its own instance, billed by the second.
- Build pipeline minutes beyond the plan's allowance (500 on Hobby, 1,000 on Pro) cost $5 per 1,000.
| Plan | Monthly fee | Data transfer out per month | Always-on app servers | Developers on the team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | None | 5 GB includedthen $0.15 per GB | $25 per server | up to 1 seat |
| Pro | $25/mo | 25 GB includedthen $0.15 per GB | $25 per server | — |
What you'd pay
Usage only some alternatives charge for
Hobby1 server × $25 per server + 95 GB × $0.15 per GB$39/mo
Cost as you grow
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