Render vs Cloudflare Workers

At a Glance

Render

Cloudflare Workers

Render

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Cloudflare Workers

Render

Pros

Free static site hosting with no limits on bandwidth is genuinely useful for marketing sites and documentation+153
Managed PostgreSQL databases with automatic backups are available without configuring anything yourself+138
Build caching is smart and incremental, making subsequent deploys noticeably faster than starting from scratch+114
Auto-deploy from GitHub and preview environments per branch work reliably without any YAML configuration+97

Cons

Free web services spin down after 15 minutes of inactivity and the cold start takes 30-60 seconds — awful first impression for demo apps

Developer Platform

Render vs Railway

Hosting

Render vs Fly.io

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