Sign up and give it a try - you can get started for a few dollars per month and it's easy to deploy from GitHub. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Render lets us spin up new environments quickly and easily, which is great for us as a small team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Felix J.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/28/2021

"Can't live without Render"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

- Ease of starting, stopping and suspending a service.

- Private services.

- Auto deployement from git Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

- The admin panel UI could be a bit better

- Documentation can be improved (had trouble with a private service, later figured out with support chat that services can only connect to others in the same region) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harish G.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/12/2021

"The most honest Cloud Computing service I have seen"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

With Render, whatyou see is what you get. There are no hidden fees, no dark patterns like the big cloud providers to trick you into spending more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

I didn't find support for FastAPI, raised it to them and they were very fast in implementing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manthan M.

Undergraduate Student

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/31/2021

"The best place for easy and affordable hosting"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

- Infrastructure as code, lets me duplicate hosting for multiple projects

- Cheap - Much cheaper than Heroku

- Databases - Everything is all in one places Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

Only a few regions so far, but easy to fix! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stephen D.

Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/23/2021

"Simple Docker Deploys for Any Stack"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

The new auto-scaling support is really great, and deployment/management of databases is ten times easier than Heroku.

Another benefit of Render is how active their founder is on Twitter. It's kind of rare in my experience for someone to be so involved in the community, and seeing Anurag on almost every Render post that I've seen espousing the benefits of Render or addressing concerns gives me a lot of confidence in using the product to solve the needs of my business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

The company is still early on, so they aren't on the bleeding edge with Postgres upgrades, Redis support, etc. However, their roadmap looks really promising. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Render:

If you have a pretty straightforward stack, Render is 100% the right choice for you. If you have a really complex stack with Redis and Elasticache (or other tools), while it all seems to be supported, it's not quite as first-class as I think they're aiming to have in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Deploying code to production is hard. I've tried bare metal, Heroku, Digital Ocean Apps Platform, AWS Lightsail, and others. Render makes management and billing easier than any of the rest.

I love how active the company is on their roadmap in terms of communicating with stakeholders, which gives me way more confidence than I have at Heroku with Salesforce running the show and not very many updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/1/2022

"Intuitive build tools and great developer experience, Render is superb"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Render?

Excellent IaC support out of the box. It makes configuring monorepo's super. I launched a docker and static site stack in half an hour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

IaC previews with multiple web stacks become paid plan by default. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Itai M.

Head Of Analytics

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/6/2021

"I've told every dev and entrepreneur I know about this service"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

Ease of use is hands down the best thing about Render. The docs are incredibly useful also. The free static websites put them over the top! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

Support is all in SF (I think), so if you're in the wrong timezone, it might take a while for them to get back to you. That said, the longest I've waited is 2 hours. Also the docs are excellent so if you pay attention, it's so easy to use the support won't be needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aman B.

Full Stack Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/17/2021

"Honest Render Review"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

The most helpful thing that I found about render was it's "in few clicks deployment" and "easy to use interface". It saves a ton of time that get's wasted in services deployment. Also, Static site deployment is completely free, they don't even ask for a card for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

I have yet not found any downside about the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nick G.

Founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/10/2021

"For every hour I spent on dev-ops previously, I spend less than 10 minutes with Render. Delightful!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Render?

Deploying lots of services from 1 file (Infrastructure as code), complete preview environments and autoscaling out of the box are awesome. Generally that I can forget about managing servers, and for a good price, too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

I'm looking forward to more regions (e.g. London/UK) and cross-region availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mark T.

Co-founder and CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/7/2021

"Render - deployment that just works"

5/5

What do you like best about Render?

Coming from Heroku, the first thing I noticed about Render was how everything about deployment seems to "just work". It's such a refreshing experience to be able to follow their documentation, pertaining to your specific deployment, and not have to then scour the internet looking for the actual way to deploy with their service.

Further, Render automates your site's HTTPS/SSL (TLS nowadays, hopefully) and integrates with GitHub. They also make restricting external access to your database a breeze — security feels powerful and easy to implement with Render (most of it is handled for you).

And, if you have a question, their support staff is informative, kind, and timely. It's truly made deployment feel a lot less like "deployment" and more like... "we're live!" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Render?

There really isn't anything I dislike at all. Are there things I'd like to see? Absolutely, and they have a feature request page where you can track all feature requests and make your own.

Perhaps one feature, is the ability to manually control the storage time of database logs. By default, Render keeps the logs for approximately 1-week and then they are deleted. This is great from a data policy point of view, but leveraging a finer-grained control over your logs is going to be sought after for most organizations (perhaps you want them deleted after 48 hours?). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Render:

Spin them up and give it a try, it's about $14 a month to test drive with a working database and server instance. Worst case scenario, you're out $14 bucks for that month, best case scenario you just made deployment no longer a nightmare for your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Render solving and how is that benefiting you?

Render has made it a breeze for me to rapidly deploy and test in a live staging environment. Further, with the benefits of using Elixir, I can quickly and easily scale by adding additional hardware and resources to both my application service and database service with a few simple clicks of a button. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.