Is Render or Aiven cheaper?

Render has the lower entry price — Render starts at $0/mo and Aiven at $0/mo.

Does Render or Aiven support HIPAA?

HIPAA support — Render: Yes; Aiven: Yes. Confirm current scope with the vendor.

Render vs Aiven

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for managed postgres. Render has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.

Render has the lower entry price — Render starts at $0/mo, Aiven at $0/mo. Free tier: Render No, Aiven Yes. HIPAA: Render Yes, Aiven Yes.

As of 2026-09-02 · figures link to their source below STALE

Side by side

Render

$0/mo entry

Entry price$0/mo (Free)

Free tierNo

HIPAA (BAA)Yes

SOC 2Yes

GDPRYes

Best forFull-stack teams wanting app hosting and Postgres on a single unified platform

Aiven

$0/mo entry

Entry price$0/mo (Free)

Free tierYes

HIPAA (BAA)Yes

SOC 2Yes

GDPRYes

Best forEnterprises needing multi-cloud Postgres with strong compliance (HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC 2)

Sources — Render: render.com (verified 2026-09-02) STALE · 2026-06-14 · Aiven: aiven.io (verified 2026-09-02) STALE · 2026-06-14

Key features

Render: SOC 2 Type 2 + ISO 27001 + HIPAA with BAA + GDPR/DPA — confirmed on render.com/security; Read replicas and high availability with automatic failover; pgvector and PostGIS extensions supported; Git-based deployments from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket with zero-downtime deploys; Infrastructure as Code via Terraform provider; OpenTelemetry metrics streaming

Aiven: Dedicated VMs with no multi-tenancy — full isolation per customer; Deploy across AWS, GCP, Azure in same console; multi-cloud by design; 50+ supported extensions including pgvector, PostGIS, TimescaleDB; HIPAA compliant since 2018; ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 (ISAE 3000 Type 2), PCI DSS; VPC peering and PrivateLink support for private network connectivity

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