Companies Using Render

We detect Render on 7,305 domains, including Remote Technology, Inc., Akamai Technologies, Pagbank. A detection means the technology is present on that domain, which for large organisations is often a single storefront or subdomain rather than a company-wide deployment. Among domains we matched to a company with a resolved industry, the most common is Software Development (17.58%).

We detect 7,305 domains running Render across our monthly crawl of live business domains. Company data could be matched for 4,896 of them (67.0%), and every company-size, industry and country breakdown on this page describes that matched subset rather than the full detected base. A further 2,048 domains carried a Render detection previously and no longer do.

Render holds 0.31% of the PaaS category, ranking #17. This is a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category — not a share of all websites, and not a share of spending — so it is not directly comparable to figures published on other denominators.

The top alternatives to Render include Amazon Web Services (39.98% market share), Vercel (16.64% market share), WordPress.com (8.24% market share), Azure (7.5% market share) — measured as a share of the domains we detect running a platform in this category.

United States leads with 2,011 matched Render domains, followed by United Kingdom (319), India (233), Germany (232), Canada (176). These are counts within the 4,896 domains we could match to a company record, not the full detected base.

The most common company size is 1-10 employees, representing 56.13% of the Render domains we could match to a company record and size — a subset of 4,896 matched companies, not of all 7,305 detected domains. This is followed by 11-50 employees (25.82%) and 51-200 employees (11.99%).

Among the Render domains we could match to a company with a known founding date, the largest group was founded in the 2010s (43.73%), followed by the 2020s (38.05%). That matched subset is drawn from 4,896 companies and is not representative of all 7,305 detected domains. This suggests Render is most popular among relatively young companies.

The ideal Render customer is: Company Size: 1-10 employees, Location: United States, UK or India, Company Age: Founded 2010-2019, Primary Use: Developer docs and API portals, Tech Stack: Express, React, Ruby on Rails — based on our analysis of 4,896 enriched companies at TechnologyChecker.io.

By one signal: the x-render-origin-server: Render response header, which Render's edge adds to the sites it serves. There is no script tag, cookie or HTML fingerprint involved. A domain either returns that header on the request we made or it does not, which makes the detection unusually clean and unusually narrow at the same time.

No. 7,305 is a floor. It counts domains with a public web address that returned the Render header when our monthly crawl reached them. Managed PostgreSQL, background workers, cron jobs and private services have no public HTTP surface, so a customer running those and no web service never appears. Anything served through a proxy that rewrites origin headers is also missing. The true installed base is larger, and the size of the gap is not something a header check can measure.

It proves that at the moment we requested that hostname, the response came from Render's edge. That is strong evidence: the string is specific to Render, so there is no shared container or vendor shim to confuse it with. What it does not prove is scale, spend or commitment. It cannot tell you whether the workload behind it is a static documentation site or a production application, whether the company runs one Render service or forty, or whether anyone at that company chose Render rather than inheriting it with a docs tool. It also cannot prove absence: a company missing from this list may still be a Render customer.

Because that is genuinely what is there. 41 of the 50 companies listed on this page were detected on a developer documentation, API reference or support hostname, such as developer.remote.com, techdocs.akamai.com, docs.gusto.com and support.rackspace.com. Only two were detected on the company's main website. Documentation sites are small, static or near-static, owned by a developer relations team with its own budget, and easy to move, which makes them a natural fit for a platform sold on how quickly you can deploy to it.

Yes, and heavily. 1,400 domains dropped their Render detection and now run Vercel, against 66 moving in the opposite direction. That is roughly 21 to 1 against Render, on a base we currently detect at 7,305 domains. The movement is recent: 1,397 of the 1,400 fall inside the last 90 days and 714 inside the last 30. No other corridor in either direction carries meaningful volume, so Vercel is not one competitor among several in this data, it is the only one visible.

It was the first thing we asked, because a ratio that lopsided usually is. Two checks were run before this page was published. The first tested whether the two platforms were simply co-installed rather than substituted: of the domains that have ever carried both detections, only 27.6% still carry both, so the overlap resolved rather than persisted. The second tested whether the departures were one crawl-side event: they are spread across June, July and August, and the busiest single day accounts for roughly 8% of the total. Neither result explained the corridor away.

Much smaller in this category. We detect Vercel on 389,653 domains for a 16.64% share of PaaS, against Render on 7,305 domains for 0.31%. Both are floors measured with different signals, so the ratio is not exact, but the order of magnitude is not in doubt, and the migration data runs the same direction as the size difference.

Because that is how Render serves sites, not because 99.95% of Render customers independently chose Cloudflare. It is a property of the platform, so it carries no information about any individual customer and should be excluded from any read of this stack data. The figures worth reading are the ones below it: Google Analytics 52.42%, Express 17.73%, jsDelivr 16.88%, React 14.62% and Ruby on Rails 10.24%.

Express leads at 17.73% of sampled Render domains, followed by Ruby on Rails at 10.24%, Nuxt.js at 5.46%, SvelteKit at 1.4% and Remix at 1.21%. On the client side React is on 14.62%, React Router on 13.87% and Vue.js on 6.75%. Express in first place is what a Node-first platform should look like. Rails at 10.24% is the non-obvious one, and at that level it is a real cohort rather than noise.

Software Development leads with 823 matched domains (17.58%), followed by Technology, Information and Internet with 489 (10.44%) and Financial Services with 346 (7.39%). IT Services and IT Consulting adds 276 (5.89%) and Advertising Services 132 (2.82%). The first two together account for more than a quarter of the matched base, which makes Render the most developer-concentrated platform in its category.

Because it is sold to developers rather than to businesses that need a website. Cloudways sits in the same PaaS category and its largest vertical is Construction at 5.52%, a long way from Render's Software Development at 17.58%. Two platforms in one category can serve completely different buyers, which is why a category ranking on its own tells you very little about who a competitor is.

2,048 domains dropped a detection since we began tracking in March 2026. That figure mixes genuine departures with domains that went offline, changed how they are served, or moved behind something that rewrites the origin header. The one movement we can attribute is the Vercel corridor: 1,400 of those domains now return a Vercel detection.

The August 2026 crawl puts Render at 7,305 active domains, up from 6,172 in June. Counts move month to month because the set of domains crawled turns over, so a change on its own is not evidence that sites were added or removed. Over the same window the count of domains where the header has ever been seen rose from 6,221 to 9,164, a much steeper line, which suggests coverage widened. With three data points there is no way to separate a real trend from a wider net, so read the level rather than the slope.

Yes. Render is a platform as a service: it takes a repository and runs it, handling provisioning, TLS, deploys and scaling. It supports web services, static sites, private services, background workers, cron jobs and managed databases. We track it in the PaaS category, where it ranks 17th of 41 ranked platforms on a 0.31% share of detected domains.

Yes. Render can build from a Dockerfile in your repository or deploy a prebuilt image from a container registry, for web services, private services, background workers and cron jobs alike. It also provides native runtimes for common languages, so a Docker image is an option rather than a requirement. Note that none of this is visible in our detection data, which sees only the response header.

Free web services spin down after a period of inactivity and have to start again on the next request, which is what produces the long first response. Once running they serve at normal speed, and static sites do not spin down at all. Paid instance types stay running. This behaviour is also one reason a header-based count can miss a site: a service that is asleep and slow to wake may not be captured on a given crawl.

They solve overlapping but different problems. Render runs long-lived server processes, background workers, cron jobs and managed databases alongside web hosting, which suits a full-stack application with persistent state. Vercel is built around frontend deployment and serverless functions. Our data does not judge which is better, but it does record which one teams are choosing: 1,400 domains moved from Render to Vercel against 66 the other way, mostly within the last 90 days.

Both are platforms that take a repository and run it, and Render is frequently positioned as the successor. Our current detection data cannot support any claim about traffic between them: the only migration corridor with volume in either direction runs to Vercel. Anything you read about a Heroku exodus into Render is not something this dataset can confirm or deny for the current crawl window.

Rarely, and almost never for their main site. Of the 4,803 matched domains carrying an employee band, 55 sit in the 1,001 to 5,000 range, 6 in 5,001 to 10,000 and 4 above that, against 2,696 in the 1 to 10 bracket. The recognisable enterprise names on this page, Akamai, Asana, Rackspace, UKG and the rest, were detected on documentation and support subdomains. Treat an enterprise logo here as a team-level decision, not a corporate one.

Two useful things and one trap. It tells you the site is served by Render, and given the pattern on this page it usually tells you the owner is a developer relations or documentation team with its own budget rather than a central infrastructure group. The trap is treating the parent company as the account: 41 of the 50 companies listed here are present through a single docs hostname, so a domain count on this page overstates how much of any of those businesses actually sits on Render.