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 vendor's own page and 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 2026-06-14 · figures link to their source below

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 2026-06-14) · Aiven: aiven.io (verified 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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