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name: render
description: Operate Render as an agent using public APIs, CLIs, and docs. Twin Score agent 80.
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# Render skill

Render is a modern Heroku-like PaaS for web services, cron, Redis, and Postgres with a clean dashboard. Humans who want Docker without Kubernetes land here. REST APIs cover services and deploys. It is less frontend-specialized than Vercel and less diagrammatic than Railway. Twin Score on this directory is 83 for humans and 80 for agents, using the public rubric (interface, onboarding, human docs, collaboration, support, pricing fairness, accessibility, reliability versus API quality, MCP or tool surface, CLI, structured docs, machine auth, quotas, determinism, and skill packaging). Render is sold by Render, founded 2018, headquartered in San Francisco, USA. Pricing in public materials: Free instances with limits; paid services and teams; usage on compute. Machine capabilities we record: API strong, MCP none, CLI basic, docs strong, auth API keys. This page is editorial, not a star rating scraped from users.

## When to use

Use this skill when a user asks to integrate, script, or evaluate Render (Render).

## When not to use

Do not claim an MCP server exists unless the capability matrix says so (current MCP level: none). Do not invent user-count ratings.

## Capability matrix

| Surface | Level |
|---|---|
| API | strong |
| MCP | none |
| CLI | basic |
| Docs | strong |
| Auth | API keys |
| Webhooks | strong |
| SDKs | http |

## Auth

API keys

## Pricing (public)

Free instances with limits; paid services and teams; usage on compute.

## Official site

https://render.com

## Twin Score

Human 83. Agent 80. Updated 2026-08-01. Rubric: https://buildsomethingagentswant.com/scorecard

## Alternatives

- railway
- vercel
- aws