Changelog

We're introducing new compute plans for Render services, including memory-optimized plans with higher ratios of RAM to CPU and a new 12-CPU tier for web services, private services, and background workers.

To support the expanded catalog, we're also changing compute plan IDs to a spec-based format that includes the relevant specs. For example a web service compute plan with 4 CPU and 32GB RAM now carries the ID 4c-32g. This convention allows you to more easily intuit the specs of compute plans as we add additional options.

No action is needed to continue using your current compute plan(s). While you will see the IDs for plans change in the Render Dashboard and documentation, you can continue to use old plan IDs with the Render API, SDK, CLI, and Blueprints. To avoid any issues when you start using the new plan IDs, we recommend updating to the latest versions of Render clients and integrations, including the CLI and Terraform provider.

You can see the mapping of old plan names to new plan IDs in the Render Dashboard.

What’s new:

• Increase memory without increasing CPU. At each 2+ CPU tier (2 CPU, 4 CPU, 8 CPU, etc.) we are adding multiple plans with more RAM. For example, at 2 CPU you can now choose between web service plans with 4 GB, 8GB, and 16 GB RAM.
• 12-CPU plans for heavy workloads. For customers running agent platforms or other heavy workloads, we are adding a set of 12-CPU plans with up to 96GB RAM.
• New compute plan IDs. To keep plan IDs intuitive as we add more options, we are replacing legacy IDs (Pro Plus, Pro Ultra, etc) with simple spec-based IDs. For example, the 2 CPU 4 GB web service plan now has an ID of 2c-4g. The Render API, CLI, SDK, and Blueprints will remain backward compatible with legacy plan IDs. No action is required.
• "Compute plan" replaces "instance type" across the dashboard, API, CLI, and docs.