Render
vs
Spheron
What's good about each
- 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
- Aggregates GPU supply from five data center partners
- Blackwell B200 and B300 nodes offered on spot
- Partner facilities certified to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA
- Regions in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Render | Spheron | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $25.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (1c-2g) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $175.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (4c-8g) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $300.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (8c-16g) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $25.00 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $90.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (2c-4g) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $32.00 /mo 1 GB RAM (1g) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 5 GB (Hobby), 25 GB (Pro), 1 TB (Scale) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $150.00 /TB $0.15 / GB | -- Not listed |
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
Spheron offers 10 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Render. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Render | Spheron | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
4 configs
|
-- | $2.21 /GPU/hr Spot | Spheron only |
|
B300
2 configs
|
-- | $5.81 /GPU/hr Spot | Spheron only |
|
B200
4 configs
|
-- | $5.34 /GPU/hr Spot | Spheron only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
2 configs
|
-- | $1.29 /GPU/hr Spot | Spheron only |
|
H200
2 configs
|
-- | $3.31 /GPU/hr Spot | Spheron only |
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A100
1 config
|
-- | $1.20 /GPU/hr Spot | Spheron only |
|
RTX 4090
1 config
|
-- | $0.77 /GPU/hr On-demand | Spheron only |
|
L40S
12 configs
|
-- | $1.07 /GPU/hr Spot | Spheron only |
|
RTX A6000
1 config
|
-- | $0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand | Spheron only |
|
L40
2 configs
|
-- | $0.88 /GPU/hr Spot | Spheron only |
Spheron bills on-demand and spot. 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 | Render | Spheron |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | USA | Singapore |
| Locations | 5 | -- |
| Example customers | OpenAI, ReadMe, Plane, Hodinkee, Every | Prem AI, Wafer, Compute Desk, Baseten, Stanford University, UC Berkeley |
| Website | render.com | www.spheron.ai |
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Our data for Render was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Spheron on Sept. 23, 2026.