Upcoming Changes to Bandwidth Billing

On August 1, 2025, Render will change how outbound network bandwidth is measured and priced:

• Additional billed traffic:
  • All network traffic sent from your Render services to the public internet will be billed as outbound bandwidth usage for your workspace.
  • Currently, Render bills only for HTTP response traffic from your web services and static sites.
• At a lower price:
  • We will reduce the cost of all bandwidth by 50% to offset the addition of newly billed traffic.
  • All workspaces will also continue receiving a monthly included allotment of outbound bandwidth.

For almost all workspaces, these changes will result in lower or equal monthly bandwidth costs.

What's changing

Billed traffic

Beginning August 1, all outbound traffic from your Render services to the public internet will be billed as outbound bandwidth usage. Today, Render only bills for HTTP response data served by your web services and static sites.

To understand which traffic will be billed, see the diagrams and table below:

Traffic type	Billed today?	Billed after August 1?
HTTP responses sent from your web services and static sites to browsers and other clients over the public internet	☑️	☑️
WebSocket responses sent from your web services to browsers and other clients over the public internet	➖	☑️
Network communication initiated by any Render service or one-off job over the public internet	➖	☑️* Same-region traffic to Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage will not be billed as outbound bandwidth usage.
Traffic to a non-Render resource over a Private Link connection	➖	☑️* This traffic will be billed at a significantly lower rate than other outbound traffic.
Query responses from Render Postgres and Render Key Value datastores to a destination outside of Render	➖	☑️
Private network traffic between Render services in the same region	➖	➖
Inbound traffic from the public internet to your Render services	➖	➖

Pricing

To offset classifying additional traffic types as bandwidth usage, we will reduce the price of supplementary bandwidth by 50%:

Price before August 1	Price after August 1
$30 per 100 GB	$15 per 100 GB

Additionally, traffic sent over a Private Link connection will be billed at a significantly lower rate than other bandwidth types.

Each workspace receives a monthly included allotment of outbound bandwidth based on the workspace's plan. These values will remain unchanged after August 1:

Plan	Included allotment
Hobby	100 GB
Professional	500 GB
Organization	1 TB
Enterprise	Custom

Many workspaces never exceed this allotment, which means they aren't charged for outbound bandwidth at all.

FAQ

Why is Render making these changes?

This update brings our pricing model in line with industry norms and helps us accurately reflect real infrastructure usage. This change enables us to maintain reliable, high-performance service across the platform while building a sustainable business.

Will these changes increase my monthly costs?

For almost all workspaces, no. However, your bandwidth costs might increase if:

• Your services send a high volume of traffic over the internet to externally hosted APIs and datastores
• Your web services send a high volume of WebSocket messages to connecting clients

Any customer with a bill increase of 10% or more will be notified and receive bandwidth support credits for August and September to give you time to optimize and adjust your usage. For these customers, new pricing will go into effect on October 1, 2025.

What happens if I exceed my monthly included allotment of outbound bandwidth?

• If you've linked a payment method, Render automatically bills you for an additional 100 GB of bandwidth.
  • Unused bandwidth does not roll over to the next billing period.
• Otherwise, Render spins down your workspace's services until the start of the next month.

How do I monitor my outbound bandwidth usage?

• View an individual service's recent usage from its Metrics page in the Render Dashboard.
  • The Outbound Bandwidth graph displays the service's usage broken out by traffic type. See details.
• View your workspace's total monthly usage from the Billing page in the Render Dashboard.
  • Note that the Billing page currently reflects outbound bandwidth as it's billed today—not as it will be billed after August 1.