Tanzahost and Render compared
How Tanzahost and Render differ on paying, the free tier, sleeping, databases, domains, workers, logs and support, with what Render does better.
Updated 17 Oct 20264 min readTheir facts were checked on 17 Oct 2026
The biggest difference: Render sells each service as an instance type with a monthly price, prorated to the second, on top of a workspace plan. Tanzahost has no plans or instance types: each app pays for the memory and processor it really uses, hour by hour, from a prepaid wallet. Render has a free tier, regions in the United States, Europe and Asia, several copies of a service and point-in-time recovery for Postgres. Tanzahost has MySQL and MariaDB beside PostgreSQL, scheduled tasks every minute, WordPress sites with a file manager, and a spending cap.
Every fact about Render below comes from Render's own pages, listed at the end, as they were on 2026-10-17.
Side by side
| Tanzahost | Render | |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Each app pays for the memory and processor it uses, per hour, from a prepaid wallet you top up by card. No plan fee. | A workspace plan (Hobby $0, Pro $25 a month, Scale $499 a month) plus each service's instance type, prorated to the second. Starter is $7 a month for 512 MB and 0.5 CPU. |
| Free tier | No free plan. Projects cost nothing; apps and databases pay by the hour for what they use. Our pricing shows any free amount. | Free web services, Postgres, Key Value and static sites, with limits: 750 free instance hours a month per workspace. |
| Sleeping | Optional for each app: it sleeps after 15 minutes without visits and wakes on the next one. Off by default. A sleeping app pays only for its storage. | Free web services spin down after 15 minutes without traffic, and take about a minute to start again. Paid ones stay on. |
| Databases | MySQL 8.4, MariaDB 11.8, PostgreSQL 18 with pooling, Valkey 9.2, and shared MySQL for small sites. | Postgres from $6 a month (256 MB) and Key Value from $10 a month (256 MB). A free Postgres expires 30 days after it's made. |
| Custom domains and SSL | Your own domains, with SSL issued and renewed by itself. | Custom domains with automatic TLS: 2 included on Hobby, 15 on Pro, then $0.25 a domain a month. |
| Locations | One location per project, chosen when you make it. See our locations. | Five regions: Oregon, Ohio, Virginia, Frankfurt and Singapore. |
| Build from GitHub | Yes, once our GitHub app is set up (it isn't yet): every push deploys, and pull requests can get previews. A ZIP upload works today. | Yes: automatic deploys from Git, with previews. |
| Workers and cron | Up to 5 workers and 10 scheduled tasks per app, paid for what they use. Tasks can run every minute. | Background workers on any paid instance type. Cron jobs from $0.00016 a minute, prorated by the second. |
| Several copies of an app | Not yet: each app runs one web process. | Yes, with horizontal autoscaling on Pro and above. |
| Logs | Kept 7 days. Up to 3 log drains per project. | Kept 7 days on Hobby, 14 on Pro and 30 on Scale, with log streams. |
| Traffic | reading today's prices | 5 GB included on Hobby and 25 GB on Pro, then $0.15 a GB. |
| Support | Tickets from the dashboard, with your project's apps and recent errors attached, or the contact page. | Email and chat; premium support and response times as paid add-ons. |
What Render does better
A free tier for trying things: web services, Postgres and Key Value at no charge, within its limits.
Regions in the United States, Europe and Asia, five in all.
Several copies of a service, with horizontal autoscaling on Pro and above.
Point-in-time recovery for Postgres: 3 days on Hobby, 7 on Pro and above.
SSH access to services, and infrastructure as code.
Compliance papers such as SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001.
What Tanzahost does differently
No plan fee and no instance types.reading today's prices
A spending cap on every wallet, which you can change. See the spending cap.
MySQL and MariaDB, as well as PostgreSQL and Valkey, and a shared MySQL for small sites.
Scheduled tasks every minute, with the last 20 runs and their output.
WordPress and classic PHP sites whose files live in place, with a file manager, as on a classic host.
What Tanzahost doesn't do yet
A free tier.
Several copies of one app, or one app in several locations.
Connecting with SSH or SFTP from your own computer. The terminal works in the browser.
A command-line tool you can download. Ours is built, and its download opens with its first release; the API and the AI tools server work today.
Moving over
A Render web service maps to a Tanzahost app, a background worker to a worker, a cron job to a scheduled task, and Render Postgres to our PostgreSQL. To bring the data, export it with pg_dump in its plain format and import it: see import and export.