Render Reviews 42

Awful and dangerous!! signed up with free tier to self-host n8n. Moved all my workflows over there. After a week... everything was gone. Terrible service, lost weeks of work.

Good service and amend for their mistakes.
Plans are a bit confusing at times

Big fan, couldn't be much better.

You can deploy your service fast in test, and if you need you can also deploy a testing branch to your Git feature branch. I mean, for a free service, what more do you want! :)

Cheers Render.com

It's so easy to deploy and there is even a great free tier, the free tier spins down with 15 seconds no requests, but it's free and does not take much to go back automatically and just for a bit of money you can make it never spin down, really, really easy to set up

Avoid the free plan, it will take ages for responses. But, the entry level paid tier is absolutely fantastic for small scale projects. For $7.00 a month, you get instant responses, it is super easy to set up an api, and then, super simple to keep it updated by linking a GitHub repository. Fantastic!

Don't waste your time on Render’s free tier. I spent hours setting up and deploying a data dashboard, only to find out that the app goes to sleep and doesn’t reliably wake up. The initial deployment worked, but after some idle time, it just stopped responding — returning “Bad Gateway” errors for anyone trying to access it.

The worst part? There’s no clear warning upfront. You only realize the limitations after you’ve committed real time and energy into getting things running.

The free tier is not just limited — it’s broken. It gives the illusion of being portfolio-friendly or good for testing, but it simply isn’t stable enough to trust for anything public-facing. Save yourself the frustration and use another platform.

Fake prices, instead of charging you 4.50 an hour for one GPU, it charges you $5.00 to use 7 GPUs for three minutes. It's ridiculous.

Beware - Do not sign up for the free plan!

Avoid. The free plan that they offer requires a credit card and promises no fees, but after you begin trying it out, they will begin charging your CC. I went from discovering their free plan to $40 being charged to my CC and they refused to refund. Then when I cancelled my account, they continuously bill you more charges - it's a joke. I've flagged them with my payment provider and blocked any further payments, but the charges keep coming in every day. Like every day i get a new one. This is a trap and sharp practice, trust me, avoid this site and do not give them your CC details no matter what. I've never had anything like this happen before but wanted to write about my experience to show others what to expect.

My app is not building and not retrive any errors, i jump on their chat maybe they can help me, nothing... 2 days with ticket created my app still not running. My honest experience about them is they are big and doesn't care anymore is just one fish on a big sea....

I closed my Render account, thinking that all services would be canceled, but to my shock, I was still charged immediately after the account was closed. It’s incredibly frustrating to see charges continue even when you believe your account is inactive.

Their complicated billing practices lack transparency, and it feel deceptive. I cannot recommend Render based on my experience.

My account was deleted without my permission and payments still being processed. The customer care has been absolutely shocking without any support on the issues raised

Where should I start? I was using Render service free with option to renew. After 2 months all our customers Start complaining. Render has suspended our Service witouth even telling us.

Morale: we Lost 7.000$ dollars worth of customers + our brand reputation, that Is why we are going to sue this crappy Company called Render.

4 days have been passed and they still have not restored out account over a mere 8$ Payment. We tried every credit card we have, some used Daily worldwide with 0% problems.

We contacted our card holder companies and they told us there Is a bug on Render's side and they also told us to verify better if the render company is legit or scammy.

THE ONLY OPTION THEY HAVE FOR ASSISTANCE IS A STUPID EMAIL, THIS IS THE WORST CUSTOMER CARE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY WHOLE LIFE.

Don't trust your service\api to Render.com. They blocked us manually and said "Suspended by Render. Your service has been suspended due to a high volume of service-initiated traffic. Upgrade to a paid instance to restore your service."

Actually we had 5-10k request in day to our NodeJs API and 100mb traffic/month!

Don't use this company, they have unclear explanations on how their tier memberships work and will charge you a lot of money for a little usage of the server/disk. Furthermore their customer service is unpolite and aims to blame the customer.

You pay for free tier services. I hosted an application and found myself with a $23 bill yet I didn't even use it much. Also, it's slow as hell but I understood because it was free tier, but why was I charged that much? I still don't know.

It is amazing, easy to set up. I set up database in 2 min and push docker image on web serivce and it is work from first try, and did take 3 mins. It take no more then 5 minos.

I wanted to deploy my project and found that render.com offers affordable hosting solutions. so I decided to use it but I encountered difficulties finding comprehensive documentation for deploying apps on their platform. The available documentation was not informative and unhelpful, lacking in clear explanations.

I discovered that they mentioned rendercli as a tool for installation. Yet, when attempting to install rendercli using choco install rendercli, Chocolatey did not recognize rendercli as part of their available packages. This indicates that rendercli is not readily available.

Unfortunately, their community support proved unhelpful. When raising an issue, they often failed to respond promptly. Additionally, the moderators who did respond were not familiar with my preferred language, resulting in generic initial suggestions that did not effectively address my concerns. As a result, I ended up sending multiple messages and emails, but received no resolution.

I recently decided to try Render.com for my cloud hosting needs. The platform looked promising and offers a free tier, which seemed perfect for my initial requirements. However, my experience took a turn for the worse when I was unexpectedly charged $15 and $4, without any prior notification or explanation.

Firstly, the absence of a clear warning or notification about these charges is a significant concern for me. The whole point of opting for a free tier is to explore the service without incurring costs. This experience has led me to question the transparency of Render.com's billing system.

Secondly, it's essential for any service to communicate any additional charges clearly to its customers. This is standard practice in the industry, and being charged without warning is not only surprising but erodes trust in the service.

To compare, other cloud providers I've used have been transparent about their billing practices, ensuring that I'm aware of any potential charges before they occur.

In conclusion, while Render.com may offer a robust set of features, my experience with their billing leaves a lot to be desired. I hope they take steps to improve their communication and transparency, as these are crucial aspects of any service-based business.

Free tier conditions could be made clearer on the pricing page, and the notifications could be improved.

PostgreSQL Free tier is not completely free. Your free DB is suspended after 90 days since creation date and then deleted after 14 more days if you don't pay. Basically, they keep your data hostage. You can't even download it after the suspension.

I was very disappointed to learn this the hard way. I know that it's my mistake that I didn't read all the conditions of the free plan, but it still feels like kind of a scam.

Regarding hosting - the free instances are suspended after some inactivity similar to Heroku. Sometimes it takes about a minute or two to process a simple HTTP request after waking up, so the the other side may time out. Just something to keep in mind as well.

Dirty charging tactics.
Give very little warning when free tier is used up, instead would rather bill your card on file.

Disgusting fees too for a disgusting platform.