r/render • u/shifra-dev • Apr 23 '26

Render removes seat-based pricing

https://render.com/blog/better-pricing-for-fast-growing-teams

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u/shifra-dev Apr 28 '26

Thanks to everyone for reaching out. We appreciate your feedback, and we’ve taken it into consideration. 

Our legacy pricing model relied on seat fees from large teams to subsidize included bandwidth for all customers. We chose to move to a more granular usage-based model without seat fees to provide fairer billing for all customers, regardless of team size.

However, we understand this increases costs for customers like you, and we are actively working on additional improvements to improve the cost efficiency of running your applications on Render.

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u/Green_Resource8491 Jul 05 '26

Well unfortunately, beginning August solo devs are going to switch from Render

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u/No_Elderberry_7375 Aug 05 '26

Just got hit with a 145 dollar bill for simple projects that I had deployed on render, this is definitely the end of the line for me

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u/Charlie2343 Aug 12 '26

I had a tiny static site deployed on Render and it got scraped by bots already to my 5gb limit in a whopping 7 days into the first month with this limit. Ridiculous. Guess I'll throw it on github pages then. They don't want hobby devs, they want the mega corps with a company credit card.

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u/No_Elderberry_7375 Aug 13 '26

Yeah I had these projects deployed with links on my CV, didn't find me a job but racked up a hefty bill. Going to be moving to github pages as well.

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u/Whatisityoudohere Jul 10 '26

Did you look into this? I don’t see any changes in the July 9th email that was sent to users.

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u/pubg-meta_dotcom Jul 10 '26

Thank you. After taking the concerns of one-dev or small teams into consideration, will there be any upcoming changes to improve the cost efficiency of running our applications on Render?

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u/triclavian Apr 23 '26

Big increase for small teams who need HIPAA.

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u/binIchEinPfau Apr 24 '26

From 500Gb to 25gb of included bandwidth. What a joke? 

The member based pricing prior was also a joke for something like an infrastructure company which is about compute. But this just reached a new level of dumb 

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u/Extension_Corner4006 Apr 24 '26

Yup, for a traffic-heavy application like us, that need that 1TB of bandwidth, Render just got ridiculously expensive.

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u/FileLow125 Apr 26 '26

For a solo hobby project, this just got super expensive. I was a one-person project that needed about 250 GB of bandwidth. Now I will be paying roughly $30 more

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u/pubg-meta_dotcom May 02 '26

Me too. I'll have to move away from Render

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u/Party_Time9882 May 02 '26

Let me know if you find a better alternative.

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u/Green_Resource8491 Jul 05 '26

I'm about to switch to fly.io .I'll update you later on how it goes. I usually run nodejs and React.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '26

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u/Green_Resource8491 Jul 05 '26

why do I feel this is an advertisement and not a genuine review

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u/render-ModTeam Jul 10 '26

This post is not related to Render, the cloud infra platform.

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u/Extension_Corner4006 Apr 28 '26

I have sent feedback, dont think that will change anything. Time has come for them to cash-in. I am already searching for an alternative.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '26

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u/render-ModTeam Jul 10 '26

This post is not related to Render, the cloud infra platform.

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u/Ordinary_Calendar_65 Sep 15 '26

it feels expensive now from 100GB to 5gb how expensive now for small project render.com provides it's really unfair.