Civo
vs
Render
What's good about each
- Free egress and ingress
- Kubernetes control plane at no cost
- Deploy to locations in Europe and Asia
- GPUs from L40S to B300, reservable for up to 36 months
- API serving open models from the UK
- Postgres with point-in-time recovery, read replicas and high availability
- Unlimited seats on paid plans, no per-seat billing
- Free plans for web services, Postgres and Key Value
- Full-stack preview environments for each pull request
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and HIPAA-compliant workspaces
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Civo | Render | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.43 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (xSmall) | $25.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (1c-2g) | 78% cheaper on Civo |
| Medium VM | $43.45 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $175.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (4c-8g) | 75% cheaper on Civo |
| Large VM | $139.05 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU Optimized Small) | $300.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (8c-16g) | 54% cheaper on Civo |
| Block storage | $10.88 /mo 100 GB | $25.00 /mo 100 GB | 56% cheaper on Civo |
| Object storage | $10.86 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $43.45 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe (Small) | $90.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (2c-4g) | 52% cheaper on Civo |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $32.00 /mo 1 GB RAM (1g) | |
| Load balancer | $10.86 /mo 10,000 concurrent requests | Included in plan | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 5 GB (Hobby), 25 GB (Pro), 1 TB (Scale) | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | $150.00 /TB $0.15 / GB |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Civo offers 6 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Render. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | Render | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
10 configs
|
$2.49 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
B300
4 configs
|
$5.49 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
B200
3 configs
|
$3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
H200
10 configs
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
A100
40 configs
|
$0.69 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
L40S
20 configs
|
$0.89 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Civo | Render |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | UK | USA |
| Locations | 6 | 5 |
| Example customers | Defense.com, TensorGo, Limitless Technologies, Techdome, KubeNine | OpenAI, ReadMe, Plane, Hodinkee, Every |
| Website | civo.com | render.com |
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Render on Sept. 18, 2026.