Managed Postgres · pricing · Updated September 2026
Render pricing (2026)
Render starts at $0/mo (Free) as checked on 2026-09-02, read from Render's own pricing page; 6 plans. Best for Full-stack teams wanting app hosting and Postgres on a single unified platform. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: $0/mo (Free)
- Free tier: No · 30-day trial
- Compliance: HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
- 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
As of · every figure below links to its source STALE · 2026-06-14
Render plans & pricing
| 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 | not priced monthly | — | 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 |
Last verified 2026-09-02. STALE · 2026-06-14 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 — 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. Re-verified 2026-09-02 against the live pricing page; published figures unchanged.
Price changes
Price on record
$7/moFirst on record 2026-06-27
A new dated entry is stamped here each time the price moves — the record builds itself.
Tracked since June 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Capabilities
Integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Datadog, Cloudflare, Terraform, AWS OIDC, Slack.
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.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Render cost?
Render starts at $0/mo (Free); it has 6 published plans. Verified 2026-09-02.
What are cheaper alternatives to Render?
Cheaper managed postgres than Render (entry $0/mo) include PlanetScale at $5/mo, Aiven at $5/mo, Railway at $5/mo. Verified 2026-09-02.
Does Render support HIPAA?
Render HIPAA support: Yes. SOC 2: Yes. GDPR: Yes.
Does Render have a free plan?
Render free tier: No; 30-day free trial.
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