Is Render's Hobby the best deal?

Workspace Plans · $0/mo (5 GB transfer)

Best in class

Render's Hobby tier is free and hard to beat for non-production use, but the hidden costs for storage, bandwidth overages, and per-second instance billing can add up quickly if you scale beyond the plan limits. No comparable free tier with better terms was found among filtered alternatives.

Before you switch

Bandwidth allowance discrepancy: verify whether your use case falls under 5 GB or 100 GB/month before committing
Persistent disk and Postgres storage overages ($0.25-0.30/GB/month) can become expensive; calculate your actual storage needs upfront
Bandwidth overage rate (~$0.15/GB) is not officially documented; confirm current pricing before deploying bandwidth-heavy workloads
Per-second instance billing means even brief deployments or scale-to-zero services incur partial-month charges; test cost impact with your expected uptime pattern
Custom domain charges ($0.25/month each) add up if you plan multiple domains

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