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Cloudflare vs Render

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What's good about...

Cloudflare logo Cloudflare

  • Every service runs in every datacenter, 300+ cities
  • No egress fees on R2 object storage or Workers
  • Free tier covers CDN, DNS, WAF and DDoS mitigation
  • One platform for serverless compute, storage, SQL and vector search

Render logo Render

  • Offers managed services from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
  • Managed PostgreSQL supports point-in-time recovery and high availability
  • Flat workspace fee with unlimited team members, no per-seat billing
  • Free tier covers web services, Postgres and Key Value

Price comparison

How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Render?

VM Small

Cloudflare Cloudflare
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Render Render
$25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service)

VM Medium

Cloudflare Cloudflare
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Render Render
$175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service)

VM Large

Cloudflare Cloudflare
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Render Render
$450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service)

Block Storage

Cloudflare Cloudflare
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Render Render
$25.00 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Cloudflare Cloudflare
$15.81 / mo 1 TB (R2 Standard)
Render Render
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Load Balancer

Cloudflare Cloudflare
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Render Render
Included in plan

Managed PostgreSQL

Cloudflare Cloudflare
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Render Render
$90.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Basic-4gb) · $75 instance + 50 GB storage at $0.30 / GB

Managed Redis®*

Cloudflare Cloudflare
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Render Render
$32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM (Key Value Standard)

Serverless 25M Executions

Cloudflare Cloudflare
$82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms CPU time
Render Render
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Free egress allowance

Cloudflare Cloudflare
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Render Render
5 GB (Hobby), 25 GB (Pro), 1 TB (Scale)

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Cloudflare Cloudflare
Free for most services
Render Render
$150.00 $0.15 / GB

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Cloudflare and Render offer:

Service Cloudflare Render
Analytics
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Databases
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Vector Databases

Company details

Website
Cloudflare Cloudflare
cloudflare.com
Render Render
render.com
Headquarters
Cloudflare Cloudflare
United States of America US flag
Render Render
United States of America US flag
Founded
Cloudflare Cloudflare
2009
Render Render
2018
Data Center Locations
Cloudflare Cloudflare
312
Render Render
4
Example Customers
Cloudflare Cloudflare
Shopify, DoorDash, Discord, Intercom, Zendesk
Render Render
Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt

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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on Sept. 1, 2026, and for Render on July 27, 2026.