What's good about...

Render logo Render

  • Offers managed services from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
  • Managed PostgreSQL supports point-in-time recovery
  • Generous free tier

Render logo Vultr

  • Good selection VPS configurations (GPU, dedicated, high memory)
  • Offers managed services (databases, Kubernetes, object storage)
  • Competitive pricing, generous egress
  • 30+ data center locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Render's prices compare against Vultr?

Example configuration Render Vultr
VM Small $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service) $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service) $40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service) $160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage $25.00 / mo 100 GB $10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage -- $6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer Included in plan $10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan 2 TB / mo for most services
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $300.00 Billed $30 / 100 GB $10.00 $0.01 / GB

Vultr offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
A16 1x A16 16GB 6 64GB $0.51 Launch
A16 2x A16 96GB 12 128GB $1.02 Launch
A40 1x A40 48GB 24 120GB $1.86 Launch
A16 4x A16 192GB 24 256GB $2.05 Launch
L40S 1x L40S 48GB 16 240GB $2.23
A100 80GB 1x A100 80GB 12 120GB $2.60 Launch
A16 8x A16 384GB 48 486GB $4.09 Launch
GH200 1x GH200 96GB 72 480GB $4.34
A40 4x A40 192GB 96 480GB $7.44 Launch
A16 16x A16 768GB 96 960GB $9.19 Launch
HGX A100 8x A100 5120GB 112 2048GB $12.90
H100 8x H100 5120GB 224 2048GB $19.99

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Render and Vultr offer:

Service Render Vultr
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
Container Registry --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage --
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Render
Website render.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2018
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt
Vultr
Website www.vultr.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2014
Data Center Locations 32
Example Customers Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

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Our data for Render was last updated on Sept. 30, 2024, and for Vultr on Sept. 28, 2024.