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Render vs Supabase

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, Supabase at $0/mo. Free tier: Render No, Supabase Yes. HIPAA: Render Yes, Supabase 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

Supabase

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)Yes
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forFull-stack web apps wanting Postgres + auth + storage in one platform

Sources — Render: render.com (verified 2026-06-14) · Supabase: supabase.com (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

Supabase: Auto-generated REST and GraphQL APIs from Postgres schema; Row-level security integrated with built-in auth; Real-time WebSocket subscriptions to database changes; Point-in-time recovery (Pro add-on); 40+ Postgres extensions including pgvector and PostGIS

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