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title: "Render pricing in 2026: how much does your app cost?"
url: https://while.sh/en/comparisons/render-pricing/
author: "Grégoire Mougeolle, co-founder of Nextmap"
updated: 2026-11-02
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# Render pricing in 2026, explained, and the same app on while

Render bills a plan per workspace, then a fixed instance per service, whether it's working or not. Here is how to read its price list, what three typical apps cost, and the same app on while.

## How Render bills

- **One plan per workspace.** Hobby is free for one person, Pro costs $25 per month, Scale $499 (source 1).
- **A fixed instance per service.** The smallest one that doesn't sleep, 0.5 CPU and 512 MB, costs $7 per month (sources 2 and 1).
- **The database has its tiers.** From $6 per month for 256 MB of memory, with disk on top (source 1).
- **A free service goes to sleep.** After 15 minutes without a visit, and it takes about a minute to wake up (source 4).

## Render's plans

| Plan | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $0, with instances on top | One person, 5 GB of traffic (source 1) |
| Pro | $25 per month, with instances on top | Unlimited members, 25 GB of traffic (source 1) |
| Scale | $499 per month, with instances on top | SSO, 1 TB of traffic (source 1) |
| Enterprise | On quote | Uptime commitments (source 1) |

## The database, storage and traffic

| Item | At Render |
|---|---|
| Database disk | $0.30 per GB per month (source 1) |
| Point-in-time recovery | 3 days on Hobby, 7 days on Pro, included (source 3) |
| Outbound traffic | $0.15 per GB beyond the included traffic (source 1) |
| Redis-compatible cache | Free up to 25 MB, then from $10 per month (source 1) |

## Three typical apps, each month

| App | At Render | On while |
|---|---|---|
| A small API that is always on (0.25 vCPU, 0.5 GB) and its database | $14.05 on Hobby, about €12.53, with 3 days of point-in-time recovery. $38.30 on Pro, about €34.15, with 7 days | At most €13.75, point-in-time recovery included |
| The same API with 1 vCPU and 2 GB, with its database | $32.05 on Hobby, about €28.58, $56.30 on Pro, about €50.20 | At most €39.25 |
| An app asleep most of the time, with its database | $6.30, about €5.62, for the database, with the free app asleep | About €5.96, for the database and 60 hours of activity |

Calculations from November 2, 2026, based on the public price list (source 1), excluding VAT, in euros at the November 2 exchange rate (source 5). The sleeping app is active 60 hours per month. At Render, you pay for the instance whether it's working or not. On while, a lightly loaded app costs less than these maximums.

## What you pay on while

On while, an app is billed for what it uses: €17 per vCPU and €8.50 per GiB of memory, per month, counted by the second. An S database costs €5 per month, and its disk €0.25 per GiB, backups included: one per day, with point-in-time recovery, and for a production database, a test restore every day proves that it comes back up. Each project has its budget: a change that would exceed it waits for your approval, an alert goes out at 80% and at 100%, and an app that is live is never cut off. Your AI agent, Claude Code or Cursor for example, deploys by itself, and everything runs in France.

## Which one to choose

- **Choose Render** if your app runs at full load around the clock, and your data can stay outside France.
- **Choose while** if you want to pay for what your app uses, in euros, in France, and you want your AI agent to deploy without breaking anything.

## Next steps

- [Compare Render and while](/en/comparisons/while-vs-render/)
- [while pricing](/en/pricing/)
- [Deploy a FastAPI API](/en/guides/deploy-fastapi/)

## Sources

1. [Render, pricing page](https://render.com/pricing), 2026-11-02
2. [Render, instance types](https://render.com/docs/compute-plans), 2026-11-02
3. [Render, PostgreSQL backups](https://render.com/docs/postgresql-backups), 2026-11-02
4. [Render, the free tier](https://render.com/docs/free), 2026-11-02
5. [European Central Bank, the euro exchange rate on November 2, 2026 (€1 = $1.1216)](https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/eurofxref-graph-usd.en.html), 2026-11-02

## Questions

### Is Render free?

To try it out: a free service goes to sleep after 15 minutes without a visit, and a free database expires after 30 days (source 4). On while, the Free plan costs nothing: you pay only for resources.

### Does Render have a region in France?

No, its European region is in Frankfurt. while hosts everything in France.

### How much does a PostgreSQL database cost at Render?

From $6 per month, plus $0.30 per GB of disk (source 1). On while, an S database costs €5 per month, plus €0.25 per GiB of disk.