---
name: Render
domain: render.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform
descGrounded: 0.69
---

# Render

A cloud platform for deploying and scaling web apps, APIs, background workers, databases, and agent workloads with integrated hosting, private networking, autoscaling, and preview environments.

**Route:** surfaced by the Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same cloud-infrastructure capability—deploy, scale, and host full-stack applications, databases, and agent workloads—to the same developers and teams that shortlist Vercel.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Your fastest path to production for Intuitive infrastructure to scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth.

> Deploy apps and agents with zero ops Intuitive hosting and private networking for web services , Postgres databases , cron jobs , workflows , static sites , background jobs , key value stores

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