Render alternatives
Kofi Agyem, Founder and CEO, CloudzyroPublished
What to look for when you move off Render, and how the main alternatives compare, from each company's own pricing pages.
| Feature | Cloudzyro | Render |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | Launch: free, business use included | Hobby workspace: free, with free web services |
| Paid plan | Boost: $20 a month per site, team members included | Pro: $25 a month flat, plus each service's compute |
| Charged per team member | Never | No, a flat fee since April 2026 |
| Over your traffic allowance | Slowed down, never taken offline or charged extra | $0.15 for each extra GB |
| Sites sleep when quiet | Never, on the free plan too | Free web services spin down after 15 minutes without traffic and take about a minute to wake |
Other companies' figures from Render: updated workspace plans, Render: free instances, Railway pricing, Vercel pricing, checked October 31, 2026. Prices change, so check their pages before you decide.
Why people look for a Render alternative
Render's free web services spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, so the next visitor waits about a minute. Its Pro plan is $25 a month plus the compute each service uses.
What to compare
Whether free apps stay awake, whether the free plan allows business use, how compute and bandwidth are billed, and whether team members cost extra.
Railway
Usage-based: Hobby $5 or Pro $20 a month including that much usage, then CPU, memory and traffic billed by the second.
Vercel
Hobby is free for personal, non-commercial use; Pro is $20 a month per developer seat.
Cloudzyro
Sites and apps never sleep, on the free Launch plan too, and business use is allowed. Boost is $20 a month per site with 2 CPUs, 2 GB of memory and 1 TB of traffic, and team members are always free.
Moving from Render
Node.js apps with a build and a start script run as they are, listening on PORT. Static sites and Vite, React and Astro builds deploy as they are. Connect your Git repository, add your environment variables, then point your domain at us.