Render

Render has no intro price and no renewal price: each instance has one monthly price, prorated by the second, with no minimum term. The smallest paid web service (0.5 CPU, 512 MB) is $7/mo, on top of a workspace plan: Hobby $0, Pro $25/mo or Scale $499/mo. Extra outbound bandwidth costs $0.15 per GB, extra build minutes $5 per 1,000 and extra custom domains $0.25 each a month. The terms say you're invoiced monthly in arrears and pay any applicable taxes; the pricing page doesn't say whether its prices include tax.

The terms say you sign with Render Services, Inc., under California law. The data processing addendum gives its address at 525 Brannan St, San Francisco, and the About page says Render is headquartered in San Francisco, with Anurag Goel as founder and CEO. The privacy policy names an EU representative in Dublin and a UK representative in Belfast. We didn't see a company registration number or a founding year on the pages we read.

A public status page tracks 57 components: 7 global ones such as the dashboard, static sites and custom domains, plus 10 for each of the 5 regions. It lists recent incidents with timed updates; on 21 Oct 2026 it showed two resolved incidents from 14 and 15 Oct, and all systems operational. It links to an incident history page, an uptime history page and RSS feeds. The pricing page lists contractual uptime SLAs only for the Enterprise plan.

The pricing page lists chat support from the free Hobby plan up. The contact page gives support@render.com and a support portal in the dashboard, and the docs say support covers the platform, not your own application code. Enterprise adds a support Slack channel and support response SLAs. We didn't see support hours or response times for the other plans, or a phone line.

Section 4.2 of the terms is headed "No Refunds", so there is no money-back period, and no refund for unused time if Render suspends or ends your account. You're invoiced monthly in arrears, and price changes apply from the billing cycle after notice, without a fixed number of days. The pricing page says the Pro or Scale fee is waived in a month with no services or activity. The terms say you can cancel at any time, but we didn't see step-by-step instructions for cancelling or closing an account on the pages we read.

Paid Postgres databases are backed up continuously, with point-in-time recovery for the past 3 days on Hobby and 7 days on Pro and up. You can also make an export on demand and download it as a compressed archive, kept for 7 days. Persistent disks get an automatic snapshot every 24 hours, kept for at least 7 days, and you restore it yourself from the dashboard. We didn't see a fee for restoring. Free Postgres databases get no backups.

TLS certificates from Let's Encrypt and Google Trust Services are free and automatic, including wildcard domains, and HTTP is redirected to HTTPS. You can turn on two-factor login in your account settings, and admins can require it for a workspace; the docs don't say which methods it uses. Web services get free DDoS protection through Cloudflare, and the security page lists SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001. We didn't see malware scanning on the pages we read.

The docs list five regions: Oregon, Ohio and Virginia in the USA, Frankfurt in Germany, and Singapore. You pick a region for each service or database when you create it and can't move it later; static sites are served from a global CDN instead. A data processing addendum covers the GDPR, UK GDPR and Swiss law and is part of the terms. It relies on the Data Privacy Framework, with EU standard contractual clauses as the fallback, and says Render's main processing happens in the USA.

Every service instance lists CPU and memory as numbers next to its price, from 0.5 CPU and 512 MB for $7/mo up to 12 CPU and 96 GB. Persistent disks cost $0.25 per GB a month, and bandwidth and build minutes are set per workspace, for example 25 GB and 1,000 minutes on Pro. The free instance docs give 750 hours a month and a spin-down after 15 minutes without traffic. "Unlimited" is used only for seats, services, projects and environments.

You can download a Postgres export from the database's Recovery page, and copy files off a persistent disk with SCP or Magic-Wormhole. Services deploy from your own Git repository or container image, so your code stays with you. The terms say you're responsible for exporting your content before your account ends. Render connects domains you already own and we didn't see domain registration, so there is no domain to transfer out. We didn't see a fee for leaving.