# Render

Your fastest path to production for any workload

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## At a glance

- Type: PaaS
- Kind: Hosted
- Isolation: Container
- Free tier: Not documented
- Starting price: $7/mo
- GPU: No
- Regions: 5
- Coverage: 24 of 61 assessed capabilities supported
- Agent readiness: read 11 of 11 signals, drive 11 of 11 signals

## Links

- Homepage: https://render.com/
- Docs: https://render.com/docs
- Pricing: https://render.com/pricing

## Pricing

- Model: Workspace plans Hobby $0/mo, Pro $25/mo, Scale $499/mo, Enterprise custom; compute and storage billed separately, services prorated by the second.
- Unit: per instance/month (prorated by the second); GB-month for disks/DBs
- Free tier: Hobby $0/mo plus free instance options, subject to limitations; free web services spin down on inactivity; free Postgres expires after 30 days.

| Tier | Price | Includes | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hobby (workspace) | $0/mo | Personal projects/prototypes; Free + Starter instances; community support |  [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Pro (workspace) | $25/mo | Production apps/agents; autoscaling, high availability, more instance tiers, longer log retention |  [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Scale (workspace) | $499/mo + compute | Advanced governance and compliance; SAML SSO, HIPAA workspaces, advanced RBAC |  [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Enterprise (workspace) | Custom pricing | Dedicated support and uptime SLAs; contact sales |  [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Instance: free | $0/mo | 512 MB / 0.1 CPU; spins down on inactivity |  [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Instance: 0.5c-512mb | $7/mo | 512 MB / 0.5 CPU; always-on |  [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Instance: 1c-2g | $25/mo | 2 GB / 1 CPU |  [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Instance: 2c-4g | $85/mo | 4 GB / 2 CPU |  [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Instance: 8c-32g | $450/mo | 32 GB / 8 CPU (12c-96g reaches $1,500/month) |  [source](https://render.com/pricing) |

- Overages: Persistent disks $0.25/GB-month; Postgres expandable storage $0.30/GB-month; outbound bandwidth beyond plan allowance $0.15/GB. Key Value up to 50GB at $750/month; Postgres up to 1024GB RAM at $11,000/month. Dedicated outbound IP set $100/month (Pro+).
- Card required: No
- Source: https://render.com/pricing

## Website design

Desktop public website · assessed 2026-10-15

Complete assessment.

A white, grid-led developer website with oversized black typography, thin rules, square controls and selective violet technical motifs; documentation preserves the brand while adding a dense navigation rail.

- Styles: Swiss-inspired, Technical illustration
- Landing page: captured
- Pricing: captured
- Docs: captured

## Runtime

- **GPU & accelerators**: None — no GPU compute. (The 'Accelerated' tiers are high-performance Postgres, not GPUs.) [source](https://render.com/pricing) (confidence: high)
- **BYOC (Bring your own cloud)**: No — Render is a fully-managed platform; no bring-your-own-cloud / run-in-your-VPC option advertised. (source: docs) (confidence: medium)
- **Secrets management**: Environment variables, secret files, and environment groups (shared across services). [source](https://api-docs.render.com/reference/add-or-update-secret-file.md) (confidence: high)
- **Storage options**: Persistent disks $0.25/GB-month; expandable Postgres storage $0.30/GB-month. Managed Postgres up to 1024 GB RAM; Key Value up to 50 GB RAM/storage ($750/month). [source](https://render.com/pricing) (confidence: high)
- **Supported workloads**: web services (HTTP), static sites (CDN), private services, background workers (queues/schedulers/agents), cron jobs, Workflows (durable long-running), managed Postgres, Key Value (Redis-compatible) [source](https://render.com/) (confidence: high)
- **Persistence**: All service local files are ephemeral by default across restarts/redeploys. Attach a persistent disk on supported paid services; managed Postgres and Key Value provide separate persistence. [source](https://render.com/docs/disks.md) (confidence: high)
- **Data jurisdiction**: 5 regions: Oregon, Ohio, Virginia (USA), Frankfurt (Germany), Singapore. [source](https://render.com/docs/regions) (confidence: high)
- **Resource limits & quotas**: Services and workers up to 12 CPU / 96 GB RAM ($1,500/month), with smaller free and paid tiers; workspace limits, autoscaling and workflows concurrency vary by plan. [source](https://render.com/pricing) (confidence: high)
- **SDK languages**: TypeScript, Python — "Official Workflows SDKs define tasks and trigger runs; not a full service-management REST client." [source](https://render.com/docs/workflows-sdk-typescript.md)
- **Network & egress controls**: Dedicated static outbound IP sets on Pro+ for $100/month per three-address set. This enables external allowlisting, not destination-filtering outbound policy. [source](https://render.com/docs/dedicated-ips.md) (confidence: high)
- **Snapshots & forks**: Persistent-disk snapshots + managed Postgres backups for data recovery; NO copy-on-write fork/snapshot of a running service instance. [source](https://render.com/docs) (confidence: medium)
- **Deployment methods**: git-push, dockerfile, container-image, cli, api, mcp, dashboard, template [source](https://render.com/docs) (confidence: high)
- **Isolation**: Container — "Heroku-shaped container PaaS — services from any Dockerfile or supported runtime; straight containers, no Firecracker/microVM claim. 'Isolated environments' on the homepage are per-PR preview environments, not sandbox-grade per-session isolation." (source: landing + docs) (confidence: high)

## Capabilities

### AI & agents

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Agent skills | Supported | "Official Render Agent skills (docs/llm-support); 'Skills on GitHub' (render-oss/skills)." [source](https://github.com/render-oss/skills) |
| AI app builder | Not supported | "Bring code / git-connect; no prompt-to-app generation surface (Render HOSTS app-builders like Base44 as customers, but ships none)." [source](https://render.com/) |
| Autonomous QA agent | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Built-in coding agent | Not supported | "Integrates EXTERNAL coding agents (Claude Code/Cursor/Codex/OpenCode) via MCP; ships no first-party coding agent." [source](https://render.com/agents.md) |
| BYOK for LLMs | Not supported | "No bring-your-own LLM-key feature." [source](https://render.com/) |
| Credential-injection proxy | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| LLM gateway | Not supported | "No LLM gateway / model-routing product." [source](https://render.com/) |
| MCP client | Not supported | "No evidence Render acts as an MCP client consuming external tools." [source](https://render.com/) |
| MCP-server hosting | Supported | "Deploy the MCP Server Python template on Render with one click. Includes FastMCP, auth, and health checks ready to go." [source](https://render.com/templates) |
| MCP server | Supported | "render: https://mcp.render.com/mcp — 'Hosted MCP server for managing Render resources from AI tools.' Bearer auth + server-card.json." [source](https://render.com/.well-known/mcp) |
| Model inference API (first-party) | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Preinstalled coding agent | Partially supported | "Deploy Cursor self-hosted cloud agents on Render without Kubernetes. Run AI coding agents in your own network with simple managed services." [source](https://render.com/templates) |

### Networking & delivery

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Automatic HTTPS | Supported | "Fully managed TLS / automatic HTTPS on services and custom domains." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Custom domains | Supported | "Custom domains with free managed certificates." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Direct public IPv6 | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Edge KV store | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Egress controls | Partially supported | "For an additional monthly fee, you can create sets of dedicated outbound IP addresses for your Render workspace." [source](https://render.com/docs/dedicated-ips.md) |
| Email send / receive | Not supported | "No first-party email send/receive primitive." [source](https://render.com/) |
| Public preview URLs | Supported | "Preview environments (per-PR)." [source](https://render.com/docs/preview-environments) |
| Private networking | Supported | "Automatic private networking" [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Built-in reverse proxy | Supported | "Private networking + load balancing; routes external traffic to services." [source](https://render.com/) |

### Organisation & security

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Built-in auth | Not supported | "No auth-as-a-service / IAM for deployed workloads." [source](https://render.com/) |
| BYOC | Not supported | "Fully-managed platform; no bring-your-own-cloud / run-in-your-VPC option." [source](https://render.com/) |
| Deploy into customers' VPCs | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Secrets management | Supported | "Environment variables, secret files, and environment groups." [source](https://api-docs.render.com/reference/add-or-update-secret-file.md) |
| Self-host / OSS core | Not supported | "Closed hosted platform; only agent skills are open source, not the runnable core." [source](https://github.com/render-oss) |
| Sharing | Partially supported | "Shareable preview-environment URLs + team membership." [source](https://render.com/docs/preview-environments) |
| SSO / SAML | Partially supported | "SAML SSO & SCIM" [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Teams | Supported | "Workspaces / Org plan with team members." [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Workload identity | Partially supported | "With a Pro workspace or higher, you can configure your Render services to authenticate with supported third-party providers using OpenID Connect (OIDC). Render manages a short-lived authentication token for each of your services that automatically rotates as needed." [source](https://render.com/docs/oidc.md) |

### Developer access

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CLI | Supported | "Official Render CLI (`render ssh`, deploy, manage)." [source](https://render.com/docs/cli) |
| E2B-compatible API | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Filesystem API | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Git deploy | Supported | "Git-connected services with automatic deploys (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket)." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| HTTP data API | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| OpenAPI spec | Supported | "OpenAPI Spec: use with Postman/Insomnia or generate your own Render clients." [source](https://api-docs.render.com/docs/api-spec.md) |
| Private container registry | Not supported | "You can deploy public images from any registry Render can reach, and you can deploy private images from the following registries: Docker Hub, GitHub Container Registry, GitLab Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry, AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)." [source](https://render.com/docs/deploying-an-image.md) |
| Public API | Supported | "Full REST API with reference docs (services, deploys, env vars, secret files, etc.)." [source](https://api-docs.render.com/) |
| SDK | Supported | "The Render SDK for TypeScript provides support for: Defining workflow tasks; Triggering runs of those tasks from your other TypeScript code" [source](https://render.com/docs/workflows-sdk-typescript.md) |
| SSH access | Supported | "You can also SSH into your services from the terminal ... `render ssh`." [source](https://render.com/docs/ssh) |

### Compute & storage

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cloud-init / ignition config | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Desktop / computer-use sandbox | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| GPU compute | Not supported | "No GPU compute; the 'Accelerated' tiers are high-performance Postgres." [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Live-state (memory) snapshots | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Multi-region | Supported | "Oregon, Ohio, Virginia (USA), Frankfurt (Germany), Singapore." [source](https://render.com/docs/regions) |
| Object storage | Not supported | "No first-party managed object store found in current service/storage catalog; external object stores can be used." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Persistent disk | Supported | "Persistent Disks (block storage) attached to services; $0.25/GB per month." [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Sandbox templates / custom images | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Scale to zero | Partially supported | "Free instances spin down on inactivity; autoscaling (Pro+) scales between a minimum and maximum (min >= 1)." [source](https://render.com/docs/scaling) |
| Selectable isolation runtime | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Snapshots / forking | Partially supported | "Render automatically creates a snapshot of your disk every 24 hours." [source](https://render.com/docs/disks.md) |

### Data

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Database branching | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Ephemeral instant DB (no-signup) | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| First-party database | Supported | "Managed Postgres + Key Value (Redis-compatible)." [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Vector search | Supported | "Render Postgres databases support a wide variety of popular extensions (`pgvector`, `postgis`, and so on)." [source](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-extensions.md) |

### Platform & operations

| Capability | Status | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Managed CI/CD runners | Not supported | "Not found in the refreshed primary PaaS documentation and service catalog; adjacent Sandboxes features are not credited to this SKU." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Built-in observability | Supported | "View any service's usage metrics from its Metrics page in the Render Dashboard." [source](https://render.com/docs/service-metrics.md) |
| Preview environments | Partially supported | "Full-stack preview environments" [source](https://render.com/pricing) |
| Scheduled tasks | Supported | "Cron Jobs (scheduled execution)." [source](https://render.com/docs) |
| Project template marketplace | Supported | "Deploy Self-Orchestrating Agents on Render to track SF restaurant openings and events with self-orchestrating agents powered by the Render TypeScript SDK." [source](https://render.com/templates) |
| Durable workflows | Supported | "Workflows (Beta): durable, long-running workflows as code — deploy reliable agents and background processes at scale, without wiring up queues, workers, and retry logic." [source](https://render.com/docs/workflows) |

## Agent readiness

### Read: 11 of 11 signals present

11/11 signals (10 full, 1 partial)

- Llms txt: pass — "Rich root /llms.txt (metadata, permissions, scope, conventions) + a dedicated api-docs.render.com/llms.txt for the API."
- Llms full txt: pass — "api-docs llms.txt indexes all pages in Markdown + endpoints in OpenAPI; docs are markdown-native; modular set."
- Robots AI policy: pass — "https://render.com/robots.txt explicitly allows major AI agents; Content-Signal: ai-train=yes, search=yes, ai-input=yes."
- JSON LD: pass — "homepage carries Organization + WebSite + SoftwareApplication JSON-LD."
- Sitemap: pass — "robots Sitemap -> sitemap-index.xml (site + docs + community sitemaps). (Root /sitemap.xml 404 but the canonical index exists.)"
- Meta quality: pass — "Complete title + description + OG, descriptive ('The cloud for builders')."
- Markdown negotiation: pass — "Markdown served broadly: docs *.md, api-docs *.md, per-agent guides (claude.md/codex.md/cursor.md/opencode.md)."
- Content efficiency: partial — "Fresh extracted visible-text/raw HTML byte ratio 1.3337%; partial by rubric."
- Docs discoverable: pass — "docs first-class in nav; reachable; api-docs separate site."
- Pricing machine readable: pass — "Pricing page has structured instance/Postgres/Key Value tier tables."
- Anti bot: pass — "Fresh anonymous browser, HTTP and well-known fetches accessed public content without a bot challenge. Community sitemap DNS fails separately."

### Drive: 11 of 11 signals present

11/11 signals (10 full, 1 partial)

- Public API: pass — "Full REST API with a dedicated reference site (api-docs.render.com): services, deploys, env vars, secret files, etc."
- Openapi spec: pass — "Published OpenAPI spec (api-docs.render.com/docs/api-spec.md) — usable with Postman/Insomnia / client codegen."
- MCP server: pass — "Hosted MCP at mcp.render.com/mcp, discoverable via /.well-known/mcp + a server-card.json. Verified Model Context Protocol."
- SDK packages: pass — "Official TypeScript and Python Workflows SDKs: https://render.com/docs/workflows-sdk-typescript.md and https://render.com/docs/workflows-sdk-python.md"
- Auth docs: pass — "Authentication reference (Bearer RENDER_API_KEY)."
- Agent self serve creds: partial — "https://render.com/agents.md: Only a human can authorize access; OAuth approval or human-provided environment API key required."
- Webhooks: pass — "https://render.com/docs/webhooks.md documents webhook-signature verification."
- CLI tool: pass — "Official Render CLI (render.com/docs/cli)."
- Error model: pass — "https://api-docs.render.com/openapi/render-public-api-1.json defines JSON error id/message/code and stable machine-readable errorCode."
- Rate limit docs: pass — "Dedicated Rate Limiting reference (api-docs.render.com/reference/rate-limiting.md)."
- Agent config: pass — "Many surfaces: agents.md + per-agent guides (claude/codex/cursor/opencode) + official skills (render-oss/skills) + /.well-known/mcp + dual llms.txt."

## Coding harnesses

- Claude Code (Anthropic) — "Render works with agentic tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and OpenCode through the Render MCP server and official Render skills. ... Claude Code + Render: Set up Claude Code with Render MCP and Render skills." [source](https://render.com/agents.md)
- Cursor (Anysphere) — "Cursor + Render: Add Render MCP and skills to Cursor so your editor agent can inspect services, update env vars, read logs, and manage deploy workflows in context." [source](https://render.com/agents.md)
- Codex CLI (OpenAI) — "Codex + Render: Connect OpenAI Codex to Render so it can inspect services, read deploy logs, draft Blueprints, and manage deploy workflows from the CLI." [source](https://render.com/agents.md)
- OpenCode (opencode) — "OpenCode + Render: Configure OpenCode with the Render plugin, MCP, and skills for an open-source terminal workflow." [source](https://render.com/agents.md)
- Pi (earendil-works) — "Pi uses the Render Pi package to add Render skills and hosted MCP tools for services, deploys, logs, metrics, and databases." [source](https://render.com/agents/pi.md)

Plausible compatibility (derived, not stored):

- Aider
- Amp
- Antigravity
- Devin
- Droid
- Gemini CLI
- Goose
- Hermes Agent
- Kilo Code
- Kiro CLI
- Qwen Code

## Compliance & regions

- ISO/IEC 27001: certified (scope: hosted) — "ISO 27001 (compliance reports and agreements validate our commitment to information security best practices)." [source](https://render.com/security)
- SOC 2 Type II: certified (scope: hosted) — "SOC 2 Type 2." [source](https://render.com/security)
- HIPAA: self-attested (scope: hosted) — "Build and scale healthcare applications on a compliant platform." [source](https://render.com/security/hipaa)
- GDPR: self-attested (scope: hosted) — "GDPR-DPA." [source](https://render.com/security)
- Regions: Oregon (United States (West)), Ohio (United States (East)), Virginia (United States (East)), Frankfurt (Germany (EU)), Singapore (Singapore (Asia))
- Regions note: 5 regions + global CDN for static sites.

## Company & presence

- Headquarters: San Francisco, California; distributed remote team
- Team size: 100–200 (vendor-declared structured data, not independently verified)
- Privacy policy: https://render.com/privacy
- Terms of service: https://render.com/terms
- GitHub: https://github.com/render-oss
- X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/render
- Blog: https://render.com/blog
- Changelog: https://render.com/changelog
- Community: https://render.com/docs/community
- Status: https://status.render.com/

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## Method

Facts come from the product's own public pages. Each claim carries its evidence: a quote and the page it came from. We count capabilities rather than grade products, and "Not assessed" means we have not checked, never that the product lacks it.