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Render vs Vercel

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

Render

$84/yr

65% less than Vercel

Who has a free plan
  • Renderhas a free plan
  • Vercelhas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Vercel

With trade-offs

multi-day

On price, Render wins. If you would rather build it, Vercel is the simplest to rebuild.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONRenderHostingVercelHosting
Monthly billing$7/moStarter Web Service$20/moPro
Per year$84/yr$240/yr
Billing modelFlat subscriptionPer person
Free tierHobby workspace: 1 member, 25 services, 5 GB outbound bandwidth and 500 build minutes/month; Free web-service compute supplies 750 instance-hours/workspace/month and spins down after 15 idle minutesPersonal/non-commercial use: 1 developer, 1M edge requests/month, 100 GB transfer, 1M function invocations and 4 active CPU hours/month.
Additional costsWorkspace fee and compute stack: each scaled instance is billed separately; outbound bandwidth is $0.15/GB over plan, extra custom domains are $0.25/domain/month, extra build capacity is $5/1,000 minutes on Pro/Scale, persistent disks and databases cost extraPro overages include $2 per additional 1M edge requests and $0.15/GB transfer after included usage; new teams have a default $200 on-demand budget unless a hard limit is set. Add-ons include SAML SSO $300/month, HIPAA BAA $350/month, Advanced Deployment Protection $150/month, Static IP $100/project/month, Preview URL Suffix $100/month, extra microfrontend projects $250/month, Web Analytics Plus $10/month and Speed Insights $10/project/month.
Can you rebuild it?Worth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sittingWith trade-offsmulti-day
Free alternatives+1
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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