Novita
vs
Render
What's good about each
- Wide range of GPU options from RTX 3090 to H200
- Spot pricing available for up to 50% cost savings
- Offers serverless endpoints, bare metal, and cloud instances
- 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 | Novita | 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 | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 5 GB (Hobby), 25 GB (Pro), 1 TB (Scale) | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | $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
Novita offers 5 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Render. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Novita | Render | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
20 configs
|
$1.70 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Novita only |
|
RTX 5090
20 configs
|
$0.35 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | -- | Novita only |
|
RTX 4090
20 configs
|
$0.17 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | -- | Novita only |
|
L40S
8 configs
|
$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Novita only |
|
RTX 6000 Ada
20 configs
|
$0.39 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | -- | Novita only |
Novita bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 6 or 12 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 | Novita | Render |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 16 | 5 |
| Example customers | beBee, Fish Audio, Gizmo, Wiz.ai | OpenAI, ReadMe, Plane, Hodinkee, Every |
| Website | novita.ai | render.com |
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Our data for Novita was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Render on Sept. 18, 2026.