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.
By Grégoire Mougeolle, co-founder of Nextmap. Facts checked on November 2, 2026. How this comparison is made.
How Render bills
- One plan per workspace. Hobby is free for one person, Pro costs $25 per month, Scale $4991.
- A fixed instance per service. The smallest one that doesn’t sleep, 0.5 CPU and 512 MB, costs $7 per month2,1.
- The database has its tiers. From $6 per month for 256 MB of memory, with disk on top1.
- A free service goes to sleep. After 15 minutes without a visit, and it takes about a minute to wake up4.
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Render’s plans
| Plan | Price | What’s included |
|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $0, with instances on top | One person, 5 GB of traffic1 |
| Pro | $25 per month, with instances on top | Unlimited members, 25 GB of traffic1 |
| Scale | $499 per month, with instances on top | SSO, 1 TB of traffic1 |
| Enterprise | On quote | Uptime commitments1 |
The database, storage and traffic
| Item | At Render |
|---|---|
| Database disk | $0.30 per GB per month1 |
| Point-in-time recovery | 3 days on Hobby, 7 days on Pro, included3 |
| Outbound traffic | $0.15 per GB beyond the included traffic1 |
| Redis-compatible cache | Free up to 25 MB, then from $10 per month1 |
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 list1, excluding VAT, in euros at the November 2 exchange rate5. 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
Sources
- Render, pricing page, accessed November 2, 2026
- Render, instance types, accessed November 2, 2026
- Render, PostgreSQL backups, accessed November 2, 2026
- Render, the free tier, accessed November 2, 2026
- European Central Bank, the euro exchange rate on November 2, 2026 (€1 = $1.1216), accessed November 2, 2026