OVHcloud vs Render

OVHcloud is strongest for european data residency. Render is strongest for developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	OVHcloud	Render
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$0.25/mo
Best for	European data residency Cost-conscious scale-outs Managed databases Kubernetes AI/GPU workloads	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku
Stated uptime SLA	99.99% (Public Cloud instances, region dependent)	99.95%
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	33	4
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid plans)	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (France), HDS (health data hosting, France)	SOC 2
Hidden costs to watch for	IPv4 addresses billed separately per instance/Local Zone Windows license surcharge of $0.039/vCore/hour on top of base instance price APAC region (India, Singapore, Australia) outbound traffic loses free-egress status after 2026-06-01/2026-12-31 depending on product Object Storage Infrequent Access / Cold Archive / Active Archive have data-retrieval fees and minimum storage durations (30-180 days) with early-deletion penalties	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