Render prices two things at once: a workspace plan per user, and every service you run — web services, workers, crons, Postgres, Redis — at its own monthly rate. Neither number is large on its own; the bill is the sum. Here are the plans, the per-service rates, what a small team ends up paying, and what the same stack costs on a flat plan.
September 8, 2026·4 min read
Render is one of the better-run PaaS products around, and its pricing is transparent — it is just additive. This page adds it up.
Prices checked on render's pricing page in September 2026. They change — verify before you budget.
| DeployCloud | Render | |
|---|---|---|
| Workspace seats | $0 — no per-seat pricing | Professional: 3 × $19 = $57/mo |
| Web service (API) | Included in Pro ($19/mo) | From ~$7/mo (Starter) and up by size |
| Background worker + 2 crons | Included | Worker from ~$7/mo + cron jobs billed per run time |
| Postgres + Redis | Add-ons included | From ~$6–7 + ~$10 per month |
| Monthly total | $19 | Roughly $90–110 before bandwidth |
DeployCloud has three plans and no usage meter behind them: Free ($0, 1 app) to try it, Pro ($19/month, up to 10 apps) and Business ($99/month, up to 50 apps). The plan includes builds, deploys, HTTPS, logs, metrics, crons, workers and add-ons like Postgres and Redis. The price does not change when you add a teammate or a second environment.
Rule of thumb: if you are estimating your Render bill with a calculator, you already know why flat pricing exists. Deploy the same repo to DeployCloud free and compare the invoice you *don't* get.
If you want a large, mature managed platform with a big catalogue of instance sizes, managed Postgres with point-in-time recovery, and you are comfortable with a bill made of many small lines, Render is a solid, well-run choice. DeployCloud is for teams that want one number.
There is a free tier: web services that sleep when idle and wake on request, with monthly hour and bandwidth caps, and free databases that expire. It is meant for trying things, not for production traffic.
Add the workspace seats (Professional $19 per user) to each service: a web service from about $7, a worker from about $7, Postgres from about $6–7, Redis from about $10. A three-person team with an API, a worker and a database lands around $90–110 a month. Prices as of September 2026; check render.com/pricing.
Organization adds SSO, audit logs, longer retention and priority support for $29 per user instead of $19. The per-service compute prices are the same on both.
Free for one app, Pro $19 a month for up to 10 apps, Business $99 for up to 50 — flat, no per-seat pricing, with builds, HTTPS, workers, crons, logs and the Postgres/Redis add-ons included in the plan.
If you want a large, mature managed platform with a big catalogue of instance sizes, managed Postgres with point-in-time recovery, and you are comfortable with a bill made of many small lines, Render is a solid, well-run choice. DeployCloud is for teams that want one number.
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