Ravion
vs
Render
Ravion provisions containers, Postgres and Redis as Terraform modules in a customer's own AWS account, while Render hosts them on its own platform.
What's good about each
- Resources run in the customer's AWS account, billed by AWS
- Terraform module library for ECS, Lambda, RDS and ElastiCache
- Agent skill and CLI for deploys from coding agents
- 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 | Ravion | 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.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Ravion | Render |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2021 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 5 |
| Example customers | Ember, CivCore, Productlane, Remi, Stadion | OpenAI, ReadMe, Plane, Hodinkee, Every |
| Website | www.ravion.com | render.com |
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Our data for Ravion was last updated on Sept. 17, 2026, and for Render on Sept. 17, 2026.