Kamatera vs Render

Kamatera is strongest for custom VM sizing. Render is strongest for developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Kamatera	Render
Starting price	$0.05/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	Custom VM sizing Global data center selection Windows Server hosting Dev/test environments	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	99.95%	99.95%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	20	4
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	Ticket, Phone, Docs, Pro/Premium Managed Services (paid)	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2
Hidden costs to watch for	Bandwidth overage billed at $0.01/GB past the pooled monthly allowance (5 TB US/Canada/Europe, 1 TB Asia-Pacific) Windows Server / SQL Server / Exchange / RDS licensing adds an undisclosed per-server surcharge only shown at calculator checkout Type T (Burstable) CPU incurs a $0.041/hour/CPU overage charge once average CPU usage exceeds 10% Powered-off (but not terminated) servers may continue to accrue charges Pro Managed Services add $50/server/month; Premium Managed Services add $150/server/month	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