Render Hobby workspace vs Vercel Hobby
Prices checked
Two subscriptions at the same step of their ladders, which is the only honest way to hold a tier beside a tier: neither price buys a runtime of a stated size, and both meter the compute on top. Vercel Hobby takes 1 of 4 rounds against Render Hobby workspace. Both cost free.
Monthly price (lower wins)
free
free
Price per GB of RAM (lower wins)
no size to divide by
no size to divide by
Memory
no size, the compute is metered
no size, the compute is metered
vCPU
not published
not published
Transfer included (more included is better)
5 GB
100 GB
Build minutes included (more included is better)
500 min
not published
Stops when idle (staying on wins)
not published
always on
Members covered (more members covered is better)
members not charged
1 seat
What the invoice adds
- A gigabyte of transfer$0.15 per GB vs not published
- Transfer included5 GB vs 100 GB
- Build minutes included500 min vs not published
- A year at this price$0 vs $0
Render, then Vercel, at the published rates; a rate nobody publishes is not a rate of zero.
Go further
Add a third or fourth plan, or change the weighting, in the tool.
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Render Hobby workspace or Vercel Hobby?
- Neither: both cost free a month, read on 1 Nov 2026.
- Which gives you more memory?
- Neither states a size: both are subscriptions with the compute metered on top, so the memory row is blank for each.
- Does either one stop when the app is idle?
- Render Hobby workspace: not published. Vercel Hobby: always on.
- What does the monthly price leave out?
- Render Hobby workspace: transfer 5 GB included and $0.15 per GB beyond it, builds 500 min, disk not published, members not charged. Vercel Hobby: transfer 100 GB included and not published beyond it, builds not published, disk not published, 1 seat.
Every price is one month in the provider's own currency converted to dollars, read 1 Nov 2026 from each provider's own page, excluding tax. Transfer, build minutes, disks and members are metered on top wherever a platform says so, and none of those rates is folded into the figures above. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.
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