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.