An honest comparison — including when Render is the better choice.
Hosting for the apps your AI coding agent builds. Your agent deploys full-stack apps with their databases, using the Telbase skills.
Pricing: Flat plans: Free, $5/mo, $19/mo, $79/mo
Best for: Developers building with AI coding tools who want zero infrastructure setup
Per-service cloud platform with managed infrastructure
Pricing: Per-service: $7/mo per web service, $7/mo per PostgreSQL database minimum.
Best for: Teams that want managed infrastructure with clear per-service pricing
| Feature | Telbase | Render |
|---|---|---|
| Deploy command | Ask your coding agent (Telbase skills) | Git push (after dashboard setup) |
| Database setup | Created with the app | Manual: create database, copy connection string |
| Pricing model | Flat: $5/$19/$79 per month (apps + DBs included) | Per-service: $7/service + $7/database minimum |
| Full-stack app cost | $5/mo (Starter: 2 apps + 2 DBs) | ~$14/mo (1 service + 1 database) |
| Persistent compute | GCP Cloud Run (Starter $5/mo) | Yes (all paid plans) |
| Cron jobs | Native Cloud Scheduler — pay per execution | Built-in cron scheduler |
| Preview environments | Not yet: deploys on push and PR previews are planned | PR preview deploys |
Choose Render if you need managed infrastructure with a traditional dashboard, persistent services with a traditional dashboard, or preview environments for pull requests. Render is also strong for teams migrating from Heroku.