Liquid Web vs Render

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

Feature	Liquid Web	Render
Starting price	$5/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	Agencies E-commerce/WooCommerce High-traffic WordPress Businesses wanting fully-managed support	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	100% (Liquid Web's published network/power/infrastructure uptime guarantee)	99.95%
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	3	4
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	24/7/365 phone, Live chat, Ticket, Docs/Knowledge Base	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
Compliance	PCI DSS, HIPAA (available), SOC 2	SOC 2
Hidden costs to watch for	Advertised prices are frequently promotional (e.g. 50% off for the first 2 months, or 10-15% off for 1-2 year prepay terms); renewal pricing is meaningfully higher than the teaser rate Bandwidth overages and additional storage are billed as add-ons beyond plan allowances Managed WordPress/Nexcess plans are billed upfront annually to get the advertised per-month rate ("2 months free" annual billing) in many cases Windows OS licensing adds a surcharge over equivalent Linux dedicated/cloud dedicated configurations	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