Outbound Bandwidth
Understand how egress traffic is measured and priced on Render.
Render tracks the amount of network traffic sent from your workspace's services to destinations outside of Render. This traffic counts as outbound bandwidth usage.
- Each month, your workspace receives an included amount of outbound bandwidth based on its plan.
- If your workspace exceeds this amount, Render bills you for each additional GB of bandwidth used:
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$0.15 per GB for traffic sent over the public internet
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$0.03 per GB for traffic sent over a private link connection
Always confirm the latest pricing on the pricing page.
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- Unused bandwidth does not roll over to the next month.
Billed traffic
All outbound traffic from Render services to the public internet is billed as outbound bandwidth usage.
To understand which traffic is billed, see the diagrams and table below:
| Traffic type | Billed? |
|---|---|
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HTTP responses sent from your web services and static sites to browsers and other clients over the public internet |
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WebSocket responses sent from your web services to browsers and other clients over the public internet |
☑️ |
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Service-initiated: Network communication initiated by any Render service or one-off job over the public internet |
☑️* Same-region traffic to Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage is not billed as outbound bandwidth usage. |
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Service-initiated: Query responses from Render Postgres and Render Key Value datastores to a destination outside of Render |
☑️ |
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Traffic to a non-Render resource over a private link connection |
☑️* This traffic is billed at a significantly lower rate than other outbound traffic (see the pricing page). |
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Private network traffic between Render services in the same region |
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Inbound traffic from any source to your Render services |
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Log stream and metrics stream traffic to third-party observability providers |
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Monthly included bandwidth
Each workspace receives a monthly included amount of outbound bandwidth based on its plan:
| Workspace plan | Included bandwidth |
|---|---|
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Hobby | 5 GB |
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Pro | 25 GB |
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Scale | 1 TB |
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Enterprise | Custom |
- Usage above your workspace's monthly included amount is billed at a fixed rate per GB.
- Traffic sent over a private link connection is billed at a significantly lower rate than other outbound traffic.
- For details, see the pricing page.
FAQ
What happens if I exceed my monthly included amount of outbound bandwidth?
- If you've linked a payment method, Render bills you for each additional GB of bandwidth (see the pricing page).
- Unused bandwidth does not roll over to the next billing period.
- Otherwise, Render spins down your workspace's services until the start of the next month.
How do I monitor my outbound bandwidth usage?
- View an individual service's recent usage from its Metrics page in the Render Dashboard.
- The Outbound Bandwidth graph displays the service's usage broken out by traffic type. See details.
- View your workspace's total monthly usage from the Billing page in the Render Dashboard.