# Render pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Free). Among the 7 managed postgres we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** render.com
**Free tier:** No · 30-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Datadog, Cloudflare, Terraform, AWS OIDC, Slack
**Best for:** Full-stack teams wanting app hosting and Postgres on a single unified platform; Healthcare apps requiring HIPAA compliance with BAA on managed Postgres; Teams migrating from Heroku seeking familiar git-push deploy workflows; Projects needing ISO 27001 + SOC 2 + GDPR compliance in one provider
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | — | flat | 1 GB fixed storage; expires 30 days after creation (14-day grace period to upgrade); one free database per workspace; no backups. | render.com |
| Starter (Legacy) | $7 | — | flat | Legacy instance type — not available for new databases. 256 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU, 1 GB storage, up to 97 connections. Existing databases only. | render.com |
| Standard (Legacy) | $20 | — | flat | Legacy instance type — not available for new databases. 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 16 GB storage, up to 97 connections. Existing databases only. | render.com |
| Pro (Legacy) | $95 | — | flat | Legacy instance type — not available for new databases. 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 96 GB storage, up to 97 connections. Existing databases only. | render.com |
| Pro Plus (Legacy) | $185 | — | flat | Legacy instance type — not available for new databases. 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 256 GB storage, up to 197 connections. Existing databases only. | render.com |
| Flexible Plans | Quote-only | — | custom | New databases use flexible plans: Basic, Pro (1:4 CPU:RAM), and Accelerated (1:8 CPU:RAM) tiers with storage at $0.30/GB-month. Compute prices per instance size not retrievable from pricing page via automated fetch. See render.com/pricing#postgresql for current instance prices. | render.com |

**Key features:** 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.

**Plan limits:** Free database: 1 GB storage, expires after 30 days (14-day grace period), no backups, one per workspace; Legacy Starter: 256 MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU, 1 GB storage, 97 max connections; Flexible plans: storage billed at $0.30/GB-month separately from compute.

Sources: 3 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Legacy instance pricing fetched from https://render.com/docs/postgresql-legacy-instance-types on 2026-06-14: Starter=$7, Standard=$20, Pro=$95, Pro Plus=$185 confirmed. Render has launched newer flexible plans where compute and storage are billed separately ($0.30/GB-month for storage, per-instance compute), but the flexible plan pricing page (render.com/pricing#postgresql) returned only navigation HTML with no dollar amounts via WebFetch — flexible instance prices are not fetchable and therefore not recorded. Legacy plans apply only to databases created before the flexible-plan rollout. Free tier confirmed: 1 GB storage, expires after 30 days, one free database per workspace.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/render/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Render's entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/managed-postgres/render/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl