Render Free Service Suspended: 750 Hours Used Up

How to fix it

Try these in order — the most common fix is first.

1. 1. Check usage and billing

   1. Workspace > Billing, review instance hours, bandwidth and build minutes
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2. 2. Add a payment method or wait

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   1. Adding a card lets overages bill instead of suspending
   2. Otherwise services return at the next monthly reset
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3. 3. Move to a paid instance

   1. Starter ($7/month) is not limited by free hours
   Did this fix it? Yes No

Symptoms

Service returns 503 and shows Suspended in the dashboard.

Why it happens

• 750 free instance hours per workspace per month, unused hours do not roll over
• Bandwidth over the included amount with no payment method on file suspends services
• Pipeline minutes exhausted disables new builds
• Suspended for unusually high service-initiated traffic

This guide also covers

• render service suspended
• render 750 free hours
• render 503 service unavailable

The same problem in other apps

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• DigitalOcean App Platform Build Failed (DigitalOcean)
• Heroku Build Failed Error (Heroku)

Other Render errors

• Render Free Instance Spins Down: Slow First Request
• Render "No Open Ports Detected" Deploy Error
• Render Build or Service Out of Memory
• Render Build Failed: Exited With Status 1
• Render Free Postgres Expired or Deleted
• Render 502 Bad Gateway Error
• Render Custom Domain Verification or SSL Pending
• Render Health Check Failed or Deploy Timed Out