Hosting · working at 10,000 users · rates as read 25 Sept 2026
On free tier, Render is $ 0 /mo + compute (Hobby) and Cloudflare Workers is Free: 100,000 per day. On cheapest paid plan, Render is $ 25 /mo + compute (Pro) and Cloudflare Workers is $5.00 per month (Workers Paid). On rate above what's included, Render is 5 GB included per month then $0.15 per GB and Cloudflare Workers is +$0.30 per additional million requests, +$0.02 per additional million CPU milliseconds. StackTab sells neither of these and takes no referral fee on either: it scores them. Every figure was read off the named company's own page on or since 2026-09-18; the URLs and the dates are at the foot of this page, and a job re-fetches each one on a schedule and fails when a figure is no longer on the page it came from.
2 compared · 3 criteria, identical for every column · every competitor figure read off that company's own page · last verified 2026-09-18
| Service | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| RenderPredictable instance sizes: the closest thing left to old Heroku.verified 25 Sept 2026render.com/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
| Cloudflare WorkersEdge functions with no egress charge at all.verified 25 Sept 2026developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
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- Predictable instance sizes: the closest thing left to old Heroku.verified 25 Sept 2026render.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
2.252.25 Hobby - 10,000 users
- $
2929 Hobby - 100,000 users
- $
7575 Professional · drifted
- Edge functions with no egress charge at all.verified 25 Sept 2026developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
00 Workers Free - 10,000 users
- $
00 Workers Free - 100,000 users
- $
1010 Workers Paid
| Criterion | Render | Cloudflare Workers |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | $ 0 /mo + compute (Hobby)Free compute instances spin down when idle and cold-start on the next request. 5 GB of bandwidth included. | Free: 100,000 per day100,000 requests a day with a 10-millisecond CPU ceiling per invocation, and no charge for duration. |
| Cheapest paid plan | $ 25 /mo + compute (Pro)The plan fee is per user and the compute is separate: Starter $7/month, Standard $25/month, Pro $85/month, up to Pro Ultra $450/month. Scale is $ 499 /mo + compute. | $5.00 per month (Workers Paid)10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds included. |
| Rate above what's included | 5 GB included per month then $0.15 per GBPersistent disks are $0.25/GB per month. The instance ladder is published in full, which is what makes a fixed-size deployment predictable here. | +$0.30 per additional million requests, +$0.02 per additional million CPU millisecondsAnd nothing for bandwidth at any volume. That is a different pricing model rather than a discount, and it is the reason a media-heavy app lands here. |
- Free tier: what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words
- Rate above what's included: the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one
Render: $ 0 /mo + compute (Hobby). Free compute instances spin down when idle and cold-start on the next request. 5 GB of bandwidth included. Cloudflare Workers: Free: 100,000 per day. 100,000 requests a day with a 10-millisecond CPU ceiling per invocation, and no charge for duration. Read from render.com and developers.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-18. Free tier here means what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words.
Render: $ 25 /mo + compute (Pro). The plan fee is per user and the compute is separate: Starter $7/month, Standard $25/month, Pro $85/month, up to Pro Ultra $450/month. Scale is $ 499 /mo + compute. Cloudflare Workers: $5.00 per month (Workers Paid). 10 million requests and 30 million CPU milliseconds included. Read from render.com and developers.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-18.
Render: 5 GB included per month then $0.15 per GB. Persistent disks are $0.25/GB per month. The instance ladder is published in full, which is what makes a fixed-size deployment predictable here. Cloudflare Workers: +$0.30 per additional million requests, +$0.02 per additional million CPU milliseconds. And nothing for bandwidth at any volume. That is a different pricing model rather than a discount, and it is the reason a media-heavy app lands here. Read from render.com and developers.cloudflare.com on 2026-09-18. Rate above what's included here means the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one.
Render: You would rather pick an instance size than reason about a meter. Render publishes the whole compute ladder as fixed monthly prices: $7, $25, $85, $175, $225, $450: so the bill for a service you have sized is a number you can read off the page before you deploy it. Cloudflare Workers: Bandwidth is your dominant cost. Cloudflare charges nothing for egress at any volume, which is not a cheaper rate than the others: it is the absence of the line that dominates their bills, and no amount of optimisation elsewhere closes that gap.
StackTab does not sell any of these and has nothing to gain from which one you choose: it scores them. Each case below is the one that option genuinely wins.
- Render: You would rather pick an instance size than reason about a meter. Render publishes the whole compute ladder as fixed monthly prices: $7, $25, $85, $175, $225, $450: so the bill for a service you have sized is a number you can read off the page before you deploy it.
- Cloudflare Workers: Bandwidth is your dominant cost. Cloudflare charges nothing for egress at any volume, which is not a cheaper rate than the others: it is the absence of the line that dominates their bills, and no amount of optimisation elsewhere closes that gap.
Prices and limits move, and a page quoting a stale one is worth less than a page quoting none. Every source is printed here so a reader can check it against the day they are reading this, and a job re-fetches each of these URLs on a schedule and fails when a figure above no longer appears on the page it came from.
- Render: render.com/pricing: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
- Cloudflare Workers: developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing/: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
Last verified 2026-09-18. https://stacktab.thecompound.tech/compare/render-vs-cloudflare-workers