Netlify
vs
Render
What's good about each
- Specialized in Jamstack architectures: JS, APIs and Markup
- Extensive functionality such as forms, edge functions and analytics
- Pro plan bills per team, not per seat, with unlimited members
- Free plan includes 300 credits per month with a hard spend limit
- 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 | Netlify | Render | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $25.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (1c-2g) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $175.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (4c-8g) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $300.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (8c-16g) | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $25.00 /mo 100 GB | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $90.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (2c-4g) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $32.00 /mo 1 GB RAM (1g) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | Included in plan | |
| Serverless | $69.44 /mo 25M invocations, 1 GB RAM (minimum), 150 ms duration · Compute billed at 10 credits / GB-hour | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | Covered by plan credits (~15 GB) | 5 GB (Hobby), 25 GB (Pro), 1 TB (Scale) | |
| Egress | $133.33 /TB 20 credits / GB ($0.13 / GB) | $150.00 /TB $0.15 / GB | 11% cheaper on Netlify |
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.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Netlify | Render |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | Enterprise only | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | SAQ-A | -- |
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 | Netlify | Render |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 16 | 5 |
| Example customers | Twilio, Mattel, Google, Riot Games, Mailchimp | OpenAI, ReadMe, Plane, Hodinkee, Every |
| Website | netlify.com | render.com |
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Our data for Netlify was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Render on Sept. 18, 2026.