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Unified cloud platform to build and scale applications

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Render - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Render overview

What is Render?

Render is a unified cloud platform that empowers developers to build, deploy, and scale applications. Designed for experienced, well-informed business software users, Render offers a comprehensive suite of features to streamline the development and hosting process.

At the core of Render's capabilities is its autoscaling functionality, which automatically adds or removes instances of a service based on changing traffic patterns. This ensures optimal performance and resource utilization, even as an application grows. Complementing this is Render's private networking feature, which enables secure communication between services without traversing the public internet. Developers can also provision highly available, managed PostgreSQL databases and Redis caches, eliminating the need to manage complex data infrastructure.

Render's infrastructure-as-code approach allows teams to define the entirety of the infrastructure in a single blueprint file, enabling replication across environments. This, combined with Render's preview environments and zero-downtime deploys, empowers developers to collaborate and ship updates. Render's comprehensive platform notifications and role-based access controls further enhance team productivity and security.

Key benefits of using Render

  • Auto deploys from Git for updates
  • Free TLS certificates and global CDN for security and speed
  • Support for multiple runtimes like Node.js, Python, Ruby, and more.
  • Managed PostgreSQL databases with point-in-time recovery
  • Load-based autoscaling to handle traffic spikes automatically
  • Private networking for secure communication between services
  • Starting price

    19per user /
    per month

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    Render reviews

    Overall rating

    4.3

    /5

    3

    Positive reviews

    100

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    Rating breakdown
    • Value for money
    • Ease of use
    • Features
    • Customer support
    • Likelihood to recommend7.33/10
    Rating distribution

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    Render's key features

    Most critical features, based on insights from Render users:

    Deployment management
    For developers
    Data storage management
    API
    Integrated development environment
    Data security

    All Render features

    Features rating:

    Application management
    Software development
    Activity dashboard
    Collaboration tools
    Custom development
    Mobile development
    Projections
    Real-Time reporting
    Secure data storage
    Web/Mobile app development

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    Starting from

    19

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    Per month

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    User opinions about Render price and value

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    Render support options

    Typical customers

    Freelancers
    Small businesses
    Mid size businesses
    Large enterprises

    Platforms supported

    Web
    Android
    iPhone/iPad

    Support options

    Email/Help Desk

    Render FAQs

    Q. What type of pricing plans does Render offer?

    Render has the following pricing plans:
    Starting from: $19.00/month
    Pricing model: Free, Subscription

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    Q. Who are the typical users of Render?

    Render has the following typical customers:
    Freelancers, Small Business


    Q. What languages does Render support?

    Render supports the following languages:
    English


    Q. Does Render offer an API?

    No, Render does not have an API available.


    Q. What level of support does Render offer?

    Render offers the following support options:
    Email/Help Desk

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