Render free tier includes Hobby plan, $0 a month plus compute… Catalogue date August 2026. Compare with 28 alternatives in Cloud Hosting.
Why caution: effective 2026-04-23 — 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 ↗ Full history ↓
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn, a product retired — does not lapse with time. This one rests on a record effective 2026-04-23, so it lapses on 2026-10-21 unless we record something new first.
Subtypes in Cloud Hosting: container_app — you deploy an app or image and the platform keeps a process running for it. We read that on 2026-08-31 from https://render.com/docs, where it says: “Run your code in just a few clicks with Render. You decide what's possible, and we'll help bring it to life.” How we use this.
Render's free tier offers Hobby plan, $0 a month plus compute… We rate it caution — one recorded pricing restructure, on 2026-04-23. Best for cloud hosting workloads — 28 alternatives available.
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.
We read that on 2026-09-16 from https://render.com/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Render as "render". A source check reads the cited page for the service's name and a price; the limits above are from our own record.
These alternatives were identified from Render’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.
How Render compares against every one of the 28 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Render | Hobby | caution |
| Choreo | Free | unrated |
| Railway | Free | stable |
| Qoddi | Free | stable |
| Deno Deploy | Free | caution |
| Apply.build | Free | stable |
| Vercel | Hobby | stable |
| Cloudflare Pages | Free | unrated |
| Cloudflare Workers | Free | stable |
| leapcell | Free | unrated |
| PandaStack | Free | caution |
| flightcontrol.dev | Free | stable |
| Netlify | Free | caution |
| Cloudflare Durable Objects | Free | stable |
| Google Cloud Run | Always Free | unrated |
| Val Town | Free | stable |
| Sevalla (formerly Kinsta) | Free | stable |
| surge.sh | Free | source unconfirmed |
| gigalixir.com | Free | stable |
| Neocities | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Daestro | Free | source unconfirmed |
| ampt.dev | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Northflank | Free | stable |
| Clever Cloud | Free | source unconfirmed |
| MDB GO | Free | source unconfirmed |
| dAppling Network | Free | source unconfirmed |
| GitHub Pages | Free | source unconfirmed |
| encore.dev | Free | stable |
| Fly.io | Legacy Free | unrated |
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We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.
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{
"tool": "search_deals",
"arguments": {
"query": "Render",
"limit": 5
}
}
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