Render.com
Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.
Competing against Heroku, but comes with a smaller offering.
vs Heroku
Services
Render.com have Services, Heroku have Dyno's, and as far as I can tell they're synonymous. Render.com have a better CPU and RAM offering, but make you pay for the privilege of running a cron job ($4 for each).
Render.com's $7 plan is cheaper for a production app. The Hobby Dev tier from Heroku will spin down your app with no activity.
Render.com | Heroku | RAM (R/H) | CPU (R/H) |
$7 - Starter | FREE - Hobby Dev | 512MB / 512MB | Shared / Shared |
$15 - Starter Plus | $7 - Hobby | 1GB / 512MB | 1 / Shared |
$25 - Standard | $25 - Standard 1x | 2GB / 512MB | 1 / Shared |
$50 - Standard Plus | $50 - Standard 2x | 3GB / 1GB | 1.5 / Shared |
Prices correct at date of publication (21st Feb 2020). Prices listed are per month.
Sources: Render.com, Heroku Pricing and Dyno Types.
Databases
Render.com offer more plans under the $100 mark (4 vs 3) and don't have row limits, but Heroku have a more powerful database offering. Storing 10,000,000 x 100KB rows would be 10,000GB of Render.com equivalent storage.
Render.com | Heroku | RAM (R/H) | Storage (R/H) |
$7 - Starter | FREE - Hobby Dev | 256MB / - | 1GB / 10,000 rows |
$20 - Standard | $9 - Hobby Basic | 1GB / - | 16GB / 10,000,000 rows |
$45 - Standard Plus | $50 - Standard 0 | 2GB / 4GB | 48GB / 64GB |
$95 - Pro | $200 - Standard 2 | 4GB / 8GB | 96GB / 256GB |
Prices correct at date of publication (21st Feb 2020). Prices listed are per month.
Sources: Render.com and Heroku Postgres.
Example Website Cost
Awesome Indexed indexes Awesome. Here's a cost comparison:
Render.com
Service | Monthly Price |
Starter Service Go API and frontend | $7 |
Starter Database Document store and FTS | $7 |
Cron For indexing new content | $4 |
Total Price | $18 |
Heroku
Service | Monthly Price |
Hobby Dyno Go API and frontend | $7 |
Hobby Basic Database Document store and FTS | $9 |
Cron For indexing new content | Free |
Total Price | $16 |
Notes
Render.com misses out on service extras like Redis and Kafka.
Render.com only allows you to connect repositories via GitHub or GitLab.
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