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Render
Heroku-style PaaS. Deploy web services, background workers, cron jobs, and managed Postgres from Git. Free tier for static sites and small services.
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Render is the cleanest modern Heroku replacement. You connect a Git repo, pick a service type (web, worker, cron, static, Postgres), and Render handles the rest. The UI and DX are friendly, autoscaling is built in, and the pricing is predictable. Render is a great default for teams who want a managed runtime without learning Kubernetes or Fly's lower-level model. It does not match Fly for global edge or AWS for breadth, but for most app workloads it is enough.
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