Both Cloudflare Pages and Render offer free tiers. Cloudflare Pages provides "Free" while Render offers "Hobby".
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Up to 100 projects, unlimited bandwidth, 500 builds/month, 100 custom domains per project. The project limit is not routinely increased.
Cloudflare recommends starting new projects on Workers, its primary platform for building applications. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages, read 2026-10-06.)
Pages Functions and Workers requests share a daily free limit of 100,000 that resets at midnight UTC. Static asset requests are free and unlimited. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/pricing, read 2026-10-06.)
At the daily limit, fail open serves static assets without Functions. Fail closed returns an error page. Each project chooses one mode. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/functions/routing, read 2026-10-06.)
Cloudflare's terms prohibit processing or collecting credit card information on any site using its free services. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-06.)
Cloudflare's subscription agreement's list of restrictions does not include commercial use. The only restriction specific to free services bars processing or collecting credit card information on the site. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-29.)
Cloudflare's subscription agreement bars signing up for the services on behalf of a third party unless Cloudflare permits it in writing. (From cloudflare.com/terms, read 2026-10-29.)
Cloudflare may change a project's pages.dev subdomain for any reason, and aims to give at least a week's notice. Custom domains are not affected. (From cloudflare.com/service-specific-terms-developer-platform, read 2026-10-06.)
Paid plans such as Pro, Business and Enterprise allow up to 100,000 files per site once the environment variable PAGES_WRANGLER_MAJOR_VERSION=4 is set in the Pages project's settings. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)
Cloudflare limits how many new Pages projects an account can create in its first 48 hours, and does not publish the number. If an account is blocked, the block lifts automatically once the 48 hours have passed. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-11-05.)
A _redirects file can contain up to 2,100 redirects, no more than 2,000 static and 100 dynamic. Cloudflare recommends Bulk Redirects for more. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-11-05.)
A Pages project can have any number of preview deployments active at once. Any number of users can manage a Pages site from the dashboard. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-11-05.)
To request a higher limit, submit Cloudflare's Limit Increase Request Form. Cloudflare contacts you if the limit can be raised. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-11-05.)
For more than 100 sites, Cloudflare points to Workers for Platforms, which has no project limit, or Workers Static Assets, which runs each site as its own Worker. Workers have a separate limit of 100 on the Free plan and 500 on paid plans. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-11-05.)
Pages Functions requests are billed as Workers requests. The Workers Paid plan has a $5 minimum monthly charge per account. It includes 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds per month. Overages are $0.30 per million requests and $0.02 per million CPU milliseconds. (From developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
Cloudflare's Pro and Business plans raise Pages' limits. Pro allows 5 concurrent builds, 5,000 builds per month and 250 custom domains per project. Business allows 20 concurrent builds, 20,000 builds per month and 500 custom domains per project. (From developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits, read 2026-10-29.)
Cloudflare's Pro plan costs $20 per month billed annually, or $25 billed monthly. Business costs $200 per month billed annually, or $250 billed monthly. (From cloudflare.com/plans, read 2026-10-29.)
Hobby plan, $0 a month plus compute. Free web services (512 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU) spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, with 750 free instance hours per workspace a month. One free Postgres database (256 MB RAM, 1 GB storage, 30-day expiry) and one free Key Value instance (25 MB, not continuously persisted to disk) per workspace. 5 GB bandwidth/month included then $0.15/GB; without a payment method on file, Render suspends Free services for the rest of the month instead. 500 build minutes/month. Up to 25 services, unlimited projects with 2 environments each. Pro is $25 a month plus compute.
Render's docs say not to use Free instances for production applications. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
Free web services cannot send outbound traffic on ports 25, 465, or 587, commonly used for SMTP. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
A free Postgres database expires 30 days after creation and becomes inaccessible. You then have a 14-day grace period to upgrade to a paid plan before Render deletes it with all its data. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
Free Postgres databases have no backups of any kind. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
A free web service loses any changes to its local filesystem, such as uploaded images or a SQLite database, every time it redeploys, restarts or spins down, and it cannot attach a persistent disk. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-05.)
If a workspace uses all 750 free instance hours in a month, Render suspends all of its free web services until the start of the next month. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-10-12.)
Render Sandboxes runs isolated microVMs for agents and untrusted code. It is available on every plan including Hobby, billed at $0.12 per active CPU hour plus $0.038 per hour for memory for the default size. (From render.com/pricing, read 2026-10-29.)
A Hobby workspace allows 100 concurrent sandboxes by default. There is no maximum session length on any plan, including Hobby. (From render.com/pricing, read 2026-11-07.)
Render Sandboxes is in public beta. During the beta, sandboxes have no public URL and no private network to other Render services. (From render.com/docs/sandboxes, read 2026-10-29.)
Render offers Free instances only for static sites, web services, Postgres and Key Value. Background workers and cron jobs need a paid compute plan. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)
Render bills for build pipeline minutes used beyond the monthly included amount, unless the spend limit is reached. Without a payment method or at the limit, Render disables new builds for the rest of the month, and services keep running on their existing builds. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)
Render free web services lack scaling beyond one instance, persistent disks, edge caching, one-off jobs, and SSH or dashboard shell access. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)
Render free web services cannot receive private network traffic. They can send private network requests to data stores and paid services in the same region. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)
Render workspace plan upgrades do not remove free instance limits. A service's compute plan is changed separately. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)
While a Free web service is spun down, Render serves a standard disallow-all /robots.txt response. These requests do not reach the service or trigger a spin-up. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)
A free Render Key Value instance loses its data when upgraded to a paid compute plan. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)
Render Free web services allow rollbacks to only the two most recent previous deploys. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)
Render may suspend free web services with unusually high outbound traffic, such as accessing external databases or APIs. Moving to a paid plan restores the service. (From render.com/docs/free, read 2026-11-05.)
Pricing Change History
Cloudflare Pages
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Render
restructuredeffective 2026-04-23high impact
Render replaced its workspace plans. Bandwidth for the Hobby tier went from 100 GB to 5 GB included per month, then $0.15 per GB, and Hobby workspaces are now capped at 25 services. New workspaces got the new plans on 2026-04-23 and existing workspaces moved on 2026-08-01. Free web services, Postgres and Key Value kept their specs, and free web services draw on the workspace's included bandwidth. Source ↗
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