Kinsta vs Render

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

Feature	Kinsta	Render
Starting price	$35/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	Managed WordPress Agencies High-traffic WordPress sites Enterprise WordPress	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	99.9%	99.95%
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	37	4
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Docs, MyKinsta dashboard	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
Compliance	GDPR	SOC 2
Hidden costs to watch for	Overage per extra 1,000 visits above plan allowance billed per Kinsta overage schedule (not itemized on public pricing page) Premium Staging Environment add-on reported at $20/month per extra environment beyond the included free staging environment (figure from secondary source, not independently verified on a primary Kinsta page) CDN bandwidth overage reported at approximately $0.05/GB past plan allowance (figure from secondary source, not independently verified) Sevalla Application Hosting: egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (ingress free); build time billed at $0.0003333/second ($0.02/minute) Sevalla Database Hosting: disk space add-ons sold in 10 GB increments at $10/month per 10 GB; external egress bandwidth billed at $0.10/GB (internal app-to-db connections free)	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