{"rid":"compute/render-hobby","card":{"rid":"compute/render-hobby","eid":"render","topic":"compute","slug":"render-hobby","provider":"Render Hobby","url":"https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth","domain":"render.com","category":"platform host","tier":null,"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","vorder":1,"grp":"usable","confidence":"documented","binding":"volume-quota","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"stated","needs_card":0,"needs_phone":0,"needs_id":0,"needs_institution":0,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":1,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-21","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Batch 1 recorded Render's Hobby plan at 5 GB of bandwidth a month, down from 100 GB, with the failure being a suspension. Render's documentation confirms bot...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":7},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"render-hobby","provider":"Render Hobby","url":"https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth","category":"platform host","free_tier":{"stated":"Batch 1 recorded Render's Hobby plan at 5 GB of bandwidth a month, down from 100 GB, with the failure being a suspension. Render's documentation confirms both the figure and the mechanism, quoted: 'Hobby | 5 GB' in the included-bandwidth table, and 'If you consume all of your outbound bandwidth during a given month, Render bills you for a supplementary amount. If you haven't added a payment method, Render instead suspends all of your Free services for the remainder of the month.' A separate 750-hour monthly instance cap suspends free web services when exhausted.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"perpetual-monthly"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"quoted: 'Hobby | 5 GB' included bandwidth; 'Render spins down your workspace's services until the start of the next month' when the allowance is exhausted with no payment method","metered":true,"free_allowance":"5 GB a month on the Hobby plan","price_per_tb":"USD 153.60 per TiB (USD 0.15 per GB) over the public internet; USD 30.72 per TiB (USD 0.03 per GB) over a private link","source_url":"https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"Render's free web service composes with a free Postgres only for 30 days, because a free Postgres database expires 30 days after creation with a 14-day grace period before deletion.","limits":[{"kind":"volume-quota","value":"5 GB a month is about 170 MB a day, and the second cap arrives first for a service that is always on: 750 free instance hours across all free services in a workspace, which one always-on service exhausts in 31 days.","source":"https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth"}],"limits_note":"5 GB a month is about 170 MB a day, and the second cap arrives first for a service that is always on: 750 free instance hours across all free services in a workspace, which one always-on service exhausts in 31 days.","binding":"volume-quota","binding_note":"5 GB a month is about 170 MB a day, and the second cap arrives first for a service that is always on: 750 free instance hours across all free services in a workspace, which one always-on service exhausts in 31 days.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"no card is required to hold the free plan, and its absence is what triggers suspension rather than a bill: the docs state 'If you haven't added a payment method, Render instead suspends all of your Free services for the remainder of the month'. No hold amount is stated because no payment method is required. The signup form is not quoted, so the email requirement is inferred rather than read; debit and prepaid acceptance are not stated, and a card only changes overage from suspension to billing.","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"documented","evidence":[{"url":"https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: 'Hobby | 5 GB' included bandwidth; 'Render spins down your workspace's services until the start of the next month' when the allowance is exhausted with no payment method"},{"url":"https://render.com/docs/free","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: 'Render grants 750 Free instance hours to each workspace per calendar month'; 'If you consume all of your Free instance hours during a given month, Render suspends all of your Free web services until the start of the next month'"},{"url":"https://render.com/docs/outbound-bandwidth","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"quoted: 'If your workspace exceeds this amount, Render bills you for each additional GB of bandwidth used: $0.15 per GB for traffic sent over the public internet, $0.03 per GB for traffic sent over a private link connection', with the included-bandwidth table row 'Hobby | 5 GB' and the FAQ 'If you've linked a payment method, Render bills you for each additional GB of bandwidth ... Otherwise, Render spins down your workspace's services until the start of the next month.' Supports the 5 GB included allowance, the per-month clock and the suspend-without-a-payment-method mechanism the verdict rests on. It also documents a per-GB price above the allowance, so egress is metered once the included volume is passed, which the stored egress.metered=false does not carry; the qualifies-with-caveat verdict is unaffected"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Batch 1's record is confirmed, and one term it did not carry is the one that binds first for an always-on service: 750 instance hours a month is 31.25 days, so a single always-on free web service uses the whole workspace pool and a second free service has none. Render's free tier also has two traps a reader should know before planning: a free Postgres expires after 30 days, and free services spin down after 15 minutes of inactivity with about a minute to restart. Egress corrected 2026-10-22: metered was false with a null allowance while the page states both a 5 GB Hobby allowance and a per-GB price beyond it.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"verification","free_tier_kind":"perpetual-monthly","shape":null}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":5,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:volume-quota","num":5,"unit":"GB","per":"month","currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}