Is Render or Supabase cheaper?

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

Does Render or Supabase support HIPAA?

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

Render vs Supabase

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

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 2026-09-02) STALE · 2026-06-14 · Supabase: supabase.com (verified 2026-09-02)

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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