Cloudways vs Render

Cloudways is strongest for WordPress agencies. Render is strongest for developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Cloudways	Render
Starting price	$0.03/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	WordPress agencies E-commerce (WooCommerce/Magento) Developers wanting managed infra without lock-in to one cloud	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	99.99%	99.95%
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	30	4
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	Ticket, Live chat, Docs, Advanced Support (paid, $100/mo, 75% lifetime discount promo to $25/mo)	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2
Hidden costs to watch for	Bandwidth overages billed per-GB and vary by underlying cloud: DigitalOcean $0.02/GB, AWS $0.12/GB, GCP $0.10-$0.17/GB Offsite backup storage billed at $0.033/GB per server Cloudways Autonomous disk overage $1/GB and bandwidth overage $0.04/GB beyond plan baseline Cloudways Autonomous autoscaling billed $0.07-$0.12/hour/server depending on tier Add-ons (Cloudflare Enterprise CDN, Site Manager, Malware Protection, Rackspace Email, DNS Made Easy, Advanced Support) are all separate recurring fees not included in base server price	Persistent disk storage billed separately at $0.25/GB/month Bandwidth overage billed per-GB beyond workspace plan allowance (best-available figure ~$0.15/GB, exact current rate not printed on fetched docs page) Additional custom domains beyond plan allowance billed at $0.25/month each Postgres storage overage billed at roughly $0.30/GB/month beyond included storage Instances billed by the second while running, so scale-to-zero / suspended services still show partial-month charges for the time they were up
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18