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  "slug": "render",
  "name": "Render",
  "url": "https://render.com",
  "cat": "host",
  "group": "back",
  "tagline": "Managed PaaS, static + services",
  "price": "Free static sites and 750 free instance-hours/mo (512 MB, 0.1 CPU, spins down). Starter web service $7/mo. Hobby workspace $0 + compute, 5 GB bandwidth then $0.15/GB. Pro $25/mo + compute with 25 GB. Basic Postgres $6/mo.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "Heroku-style PaaS covering static sites, web services, cron jobs, background workers, Postgres and key-value stores, all deployed from Git or a Blueprint YAML. The free web service tier gives 750 instance-hours a month but spins down after 15 minutes idle.",
  "why": "Predictable flat instance pricing instead of per-request arithmetic: free static hosting for the Vite build plus a $7 box for the API. <code>render.yaml</code> defines the whole stack in one file.",
  "warn": "Free services take roughly a minute to cold-start after 15 minutes idle — unusable for anything a human waits on. Free Postgres is <b>deleted 30 days after creation</b>. Bandwidth allowance is stingy (5 GB on Hobby) and overage is $0.15/GB, same as Vercel.",
  "install": "Commit render.yaml, then New > Blueprint in the dashboard",
  "category": {
    "key": "host",
    "name": "Hosting, deploy & edge",
    "desc": "Egress pricing is where every surprise-bill story starts. Spend caps noted per platform.",
    "group": "back",
    "groupName": "Give it a backend"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://render.com/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T16:48:12.002+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}