GrowthBook vs Render
Open-source feature flags + experimentation — Warehouse Native
vs. Unified cloud for apps, databases, and static sites
Pricing tiers
GrowthBook
Open Source (Self-Host)
MIT-licensed. Unlimited everything. Community support.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Starter (Free)
Up to 3 users. Unlimited flags + experiments. Warehouse Native included.
Free
Cloud — Pro
$40/user/month. Up to 50 users. Advanced stats, visual A/B editor, CUPED, sequential testing, bandits.
$40/mo
Cloud — Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, SSO/SAML, approval flows, data pipelines, exportable audit logs.
Custom
Self-Host Enterprise
Open Source + Enterprise license. Visual A/B editor, advanced metrics, SSO/SAML, approvals, training.
Custom
Render
Postgres — Free
30-day limit. 256 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU, 1 GB storage. Rotates.
Free
Hobby (Free)
Free workspace. 1 project, 2 envs, 100 GB bandwidth. Includes free Web Services + static sites + dev DB.
Free
Key Value (Redis) — Free
25 MB. Ephemeral.
Free
Web Service — Free
Free (spins down with idle). 512 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU.
Free
Postgres — Basic
256 MB RAM, 0.1 CPU. Always-on.
$6/mo
Web Service — Starter
Always-on. 512 MB RAM, 0.5 CPU.
$7/mo
Key Value — Starter
256 MB RAM.
$10/mo
Professional
$19/user/month. Unlimited projects, 500 GB bandwidth, up to 10 team members.
$19/mo
Web Service — Standard
Always-on. 2 GB RAM, 1 CPU.
$25/mo
Organization
$29/user/month. Unlimited members, 1 TB bandwidth, compliance certs.
$29/mo
Postgres — Pro
4 GB RAM, 1 CPU.
$55/mo
Web Service — Pro
Always-on. 4 GB RAM, 2 CPU.
$85/mo
Web Service — Pro Plus
Always-on. 8 GB RAM, 4 CPU.
$175/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Centralized team management, dedicated support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing oss on GrowthBook vs hobby on Render.
| Metric | GrowthBook | Render |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
GrowthBook · 15 features
- Approval Flows — Require reviewer approval on flag changes. Enterprise.
- Audit Logs — Full change history. Exportable on Enterprise.
- Dimensions & Slicing — Break down experiment results by user dimensions.
- Edge SDK Support — Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Fastly, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Netlify Edge.
- Experiments — A/B/n with CUPED variance reduction + sequential testing.
- Feature Flags — Boolean + string + number + JSON flags with targeting.
- Feature Reviews (PR-style) — Draft → review → approve flag changes.
- Guardrail Metrics — Auto-monitor key metrics during experiments.
- Metric Catalog — Define + reuse metrics across experiments.
- Multi-Armed Bandits — Adaptive traffic allocation. Pro+.
- Safe Rollouts — Guarded gradual rollouts with automatic rollback.
- SSO / SAML — Enterprise SSO for cloud + self-host EE.
- Sticky Bucketing — User stays in variant even after eligibility changes.
- Visual A/B Test Editor — No-code DOM editor for web experiments. Pro+.
- Warehouse Native — Connect your warehouse + run experiments against your events data.
Render · 13 features
- Autoscaling — Metric-based autoscale of instances.
- Background Workers — Process queue workers. No HTTP entrypoint.
- Blueprints (render.yaml) — Infrastructure-as-code config for all services.
- Cron Jobs — Scheduled Docker jobs.
- Custom Domains — Free SSL, automatic cert renewal.
- DDoS Protection — Built-in.
- Persistent Disks — Attach persistent SSD to services.
- Preview Environments — Per-PR preview envs with their own DB and services.
- Private Services — Internal services not exposed to the public internet.
- Render Key Value (Redis) — Managed Redis-compatible key-value store.
- Render Postgres — Managed PostgreSQL with automated backups.
- Static Sites — Git-backed static hosting with global CDN, free SSL.
- Web Services — Long-running HTTP services with auto-scale + health checks.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | GrowthBook | Render |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | Render CLI |
| SDK | Edge SDKs (CF Workers / Lambda@Edge / Fastly / Akamai), growthbook-android, growthbook-flutter, growthbook-go, growthbook-java, growthbook-node, growthbook-php, growthbook-python, growthbook-ruby, growthbook-swift, sdk-javascript, sdk-react | — |
| REST | GrowthBook REST API | Render REST API |
| MCP | — | Render MCP |
| OTHER | Webhooks | — |
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