Our take
Pick Qovery if platform teams who will start the 14-day trial, then buy Starter at $299 / month (3 users, yearly) to put first environments on their own AWS / GCP / Azure / Scaleway — and step to Team at $899 / month when they need 10 users and staging + production monitoring. Pick Render if teams who will stay on Hobby at $0 / month + the free 512 MB web service while they deploy a first project, then buy Pro at
Best for
Qovery Dev / prod environments on your own cloud
Render Web services and a Postgres you start at $0
Free plan
Qovery No free plan
Render $0 · / month + compute. Deploy up to 25 services. 5 GB bandwidth. Single-service previews
Lowest paid
Qovery Not published by the vendor
Render Pro $25
Next step up
Qovery
Render Scale $499
Runs where
Qovery
Render Hosted
Watch out
Qovery Starter is $299 / month, not $0
Render Hobby $0 is the workspace tile, not unlimited RAM
Last checked
Qovery 2026-10-23 · qovery.com/pricing
Render 2026-10-23 · render.com/pricing
platform teams who will start the 14-day trial, then buy Starter at $299 / month (3 users, yearly) to put first environments on their own AWS / GCP / Azure / Scaleway — and step to Team at $899 / month when they need 10 users and staging + production monitoring.
Read the Qovery pageteams who will stay on Hobby at $0 / month + the free 512 MB web service while they deploy a first project, then buy Pro at $25 / month when they need unlimited seats and full-stack previews.
Read the Render page
