What Render shipped in 2026

The invisible infrastructure behind Every’s AI-pilled team

How OCMI moved beyond AWS to focus on building product

Hamilton AI upgraded to production-grade infrastructure with a lean team

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Pricing updated for Render: - Pro: allowance changed from 1 service to 2 services - Team: allowance changed from 1 service to 5 services

Render launches as a Heroku alternative with enhanced flexibility and pricing

Render positions itself as a superior alternative to Heroku, which transitioned to maintenance mode in February 2026. Render highlights key advantages including longer HTTP response limits, persistent…

Render enhances AI app deployment with Workflows and Blueprint templates

Render introduced Workflows, a new public-beta feature for running multi-step AI agent pipelines and long-running jobs with elastic compute that scales to zero. The platform also promoted its Blueprin…

Render welcomes Oktana as a solution partner

Render highlights 5 JavaScript/TypeScript apps deployable via one-click templates

Render published a guide featuring five JavaScript/TypeScript applications deployable via one-click templates, emphasizing AI-driven use cases like voice agents, stateful AI agents, MCP servers, codin…

Best cloud platform to run agents: Render’s evaluation framework

Render published a guide outlining how to evaluate cloud platforms for running AI agents, focusing on three execution shapes: persistent loops, scheduled runs, and event-triggered invocations. It maps…

Render adds free connection pooling to Postgres databases

Render introduced connection pooling for paid Postgres databases using PgBouncer at no extra cost, allowing higher concurrent client connections without upgrading instance types. The feature runs on t…

Render CLI v2.21.0 adds Postgres and Key Value instance management

Render introduced CLI v2.21.0 enabling full lifecycle management of Postgres and Key Value instances via `render pg` and `render kv` commands, including creation, updates, deletion, and suspension. Th…

Render highlights 5 Python AI apps deployable on its platform

Render published a guide demonstrating how five distinct AI Python applications—voice agents, MCP servers, autonomous research agents, RAG systems, and web scrapers—can be deployed using its platform.…

Pricing updated for Render: - Starter: allowance changed from 1 free web service + 1 free static site to 1 service - Pro: allowance changed from 1 free web service + 1 free static site to 1 service -

Pricing updated for Render: - Starter: $19/mo → $7/mo (63% decrease) - Starter: annual price $15/mo → $5/mo - Starter: allowance changed from 1 service to 1 free web service + 1 free static site - Pro

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Render welcomes Showoff as a solution partner

Render adds disk persistence modes for paid Key Value instances

Render introduced three disk persistence modes for paid Key Value instances: Journal + Snapshot (default), Snapshot only, and Off. Users can select or change modes via the dashboard or API, with a bri…

Render reduces median Docker build time by 60%

Render implemented optimizations for Dockerfile-based service builds, including parallelism tuning and cache improvements, cutting median build times from 87 seconds to 32 seconds—a 60% reduction. Cha…