Hosted
Anyport vs Render
Render is the hosted PaaS with the most complete surface on this site: web and private services, workers, cron jobs, Postgres with point-in-time recovery, a key-value store, blueprints in the repository, autoscaling, and SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 on the plans that need them. If your team wants none of that to be its problem, Render is a good place to put it.
What Render does not do is run any of it on hardware you own. Every instance is a Render instance, priced by size, and every plan is a workspace fee with compute on top. Anyport is the other arrangement: your cluster, our console, and compute that is never on our invoice.
01Common ground
What both of them do
This much both products do, so the table below is only about where they differ.
- Connect a repository and every push builds and deploys.
- Preview environments for pull requests.
- Managed Postgres with point-in-time recovery, and a Redis-compatible store.
- Cron jobs, logs, metrics and a shell into a running instance.
- Automatic HTTPS on your own domains.
- A CLI, an API, an MCP server and a config file the repository carries.
02The differences
Where they differ
The short answer first, and the detail underneath it where the short answer alone would mislead.
| Render | Anyport | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Render A hosted PaaS Your services run on Render's instances. | Anyport A hosted control plane Your services run on your Kubernetes cluster. |
| Whose hardware | Render Render's Fixed instance sizes from 512 MB up to 12 CPU and 96 GB, in Render's regions. | Anyport Yours Any Kubernetes cluster: in a cloud account, in a rack, or a bare Linux machine where Anyport installs k3s. |
| What compute costs | Render $7 to $1,000 a month per instance Starter is half a CPU and 512 MB for $7; Standard 1 CPU and 2 GB for $25; Pro 2 CPU and 4 GB for $85. Prorated by the second. | Anyport Whatever you already pay for it Compute is never metered, because it is not ours to sell. |
| Where your data lives | Render On Render Postgres from $6 a month, with point-in-time recovery and $0.30 per GB of storage. | Anyport On your cluster Managed databases run in your project's namespace, and backups go to a bucket you own. |
| Idle services | Render Free instances sleep After fifteen minutes idle, about a minute to wake. Paid instances run continuously. | Anyport Pause a project Manual, and the whole project at once. Nothing wakes on the next request. |
| Config in the repository | Render render.yaml A blueprint defines services, databases and environment groups, and redeploys on push. | Anyport anyport.yaml The whole project: apps, services, secrets by name, tasks and domains. Applied on push, and a pull request's preview gets its own. |
| Price | Render From $0 plus compute Hobby $0, Pro $25, Scale $499 a month, each plus the instances you run. Bandwidth past the allowance is $0.15 per GB. Checked 14 September 2026. | Anyport $5/mo or $50/yr 1 cluster free, 3 on Pro, then $4 a month or $40 a year each. Compute is never metered. |
| Compliance | Render SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 A HIPAA BAA on the Scale plan, with a compute premium. | Anyport Not certified yet Controls are published in full on the security page instead. |
03In their words
What Render is
Taken from their own documentation, read on 14 September 2026.
Render runs web services, private services, background workers, cron jobs, Postgres and a Redis-compatible key-value store on its own infrastructure. A service picks an instance size: Free at 512 MB, Starter at $7 a month for half a CPU and 512 MB, Standard at $25 for 1 CPU and 2 GB, Pro at $85 for 2 CPU and 4 GB, up to 12 CPU and 96 GB. Compute is prorated by the second.
On top of compute sits a workspace plan. Hobby is $0. Pro is $25 a month with unlimited seats, horizontal autoscaling and 25 GB of bandwidth. Scale is $499 with SAML SSO, SCIM, HIPAA workspaces and 1 TB of bandwidth. Enterprise adds contractual uptime SLAs. Bandwidth past the allowance is $0.15 per GB and persistent disks are $0.25 per GB a month.
A free web service spins down after fifteen minutes without traffic and takes about a minute to answer the next request, and free Postgres databases expire after thirty days. A render.yaml blueprint defines services, databases and environment groups and redeploys on push. Private services speak any protocol on the private network and are not reachable from the internet.
Its pricing and compute documentation offer no way to run Render on infrastructure you own. As with Railway, that is an absence rather than a statement, and it is the difference this page is about.
04The decision
Which one to choose
Each list is written to be true. If the left one describes you, the right product is theirs.
Choose Render if
- You have no infrastructure and want the widest hosted surface: workers, cron, Postgres with point-in-time recovery, autoscaling, all operated for you.
- SOC 2, ISO 27001 or a HIPAA BAA is a gate in your review.
- You need SAML single sign-on and SCIM on a hosted console today.
- Fixed instance sizes and a per-second bill fit your workloads better than owning a server does.
Choose Anyport if
- The compute already exists and is already paid for. Render's per-instance price on top of it buys a workflow, and the workflow is what Anyport sells on its own.
- Your data must stay on infrastructure you control.
- You want databases run by operators on your own hardware, backed up to a bucket you own, rather than instances on someone else's.
- Your clusters are behind NAT, on an edge site or in a customer's network, where no hosted platform can put an instance.
05Questions
Questions people ask
- Is Anyport a self-hosted Render?
- Half of one. The workloads, the databases and the builds run on your cluster; the console, the deploy history and the build triggers run on ours. If you want the whole platform on your own machines, Coolify, Dokploy and Canine are the products for that.
- What does Anyport not have that Render has?
- Instances. Render runs your code on hardware it operates the moment you connect a repository; Anyport needs a Kubernetes cluster to exist first, and will install k3s on a Linux machine if that is what you have. Render also has SAML SSO and SCIM on its hosted plans, compliance reports we have not earned yet, and a free instance that wakes on demand. What Anyport has that Render does not is a place to run all of this that is yours.
- What does Anyport require of a cluster?
- A Kubernetes cluster you can run one command against, or a bare Linux machine where Anyport installs k3s first. No inbound port, no public IP, no load balancer that can obtain one, and no kubeconfig handed to us. The agent opens a connection outward and holds it open.
- What does Anyport cost?
- One cluster is free with every feature and unlimited members, apps and projects. Pro is $5 a month for 3 clusters, then $4 each. Compute is never metered because it is not ours. The one counted resource is traffic our gateway carries for clusters with no public address of their own: 10 GB a month free, 100 GB on Pro, then $0.05 per GB.
- Is Anyport audited or certified?
- Not yet. In place of a report, the security page documents what the agent runs with inside your cluster, what crosses the boundary and how secrets are stored, so a reviewer can evaluate the controls directly. Two of them hold regardless of certification: we never receive credentials for your Kubernetes API, and your workloads keep serving whether or not our control plane is reachable.
06Sources
Where this came from
Read on 14 September 2026. If one of these pages now says something different, the source is right and this page is stale.
If Anyport is the one you want
Connecting a cluster is one command and takes a few minutes. One cluster is free with every feature, and the pricing page lists what each plan includes and the one thing that is metered.