Render MCP
Official Render MCP server covering workspaces, services, deployments, logs, metrics, Postgres databases, and Key Value instances. 128 GitHub stars and 7 commits on main in the last 30 days. Apache-2.0.
“Official Render MCP server covering workspaces, services, deployments, logs, metrics, Postgres databases, and Key Value instances. 128 GitHub stars and 7 commits on main in the last 30 days. Apache-2.0 with explicit official-vendor signal.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"render": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"render-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"RENDER_API_KEY": "<your-render-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"render": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"render-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"RENDER_API_KEY": "<your-render-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"render": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"render-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"RENDER_API_KEY": "<your-render-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"render": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"render-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"RENDER_API_KEY": "<your-render-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"render": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"render-mcp-server"
],
"env": {
"RENDER_API_KEY": "<your-render-api-key>"
}
}
}
}
8 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- Official Render maintenance.
- Apache-2.0 licence.
- 7 commits on main in the last 30 days.
- Tool surface covers the full Render platform: services, deployments, logs, metrics, Postgres, Key Value.
- Workspaces support for multi-org Render accounts.
- Logs and metrics tools enable agent-driven debugging of deployed services.
- 128 GitHub stars; community contribution surface is small.
- Render API tokens scope to workspace; multi-workspace operators run separate MCP instances.
- Service mutation tools (create, update, delete, restart) carry direct production impact; use read-only tokens for diagnostic agents.
Render API tokens grant workspace-scoped access. For production agents, use read-only tokens for diagnostic flows; reserve write tokens for explicit deployment workflows. The MCP forwards all calls to the Render API; data-handling policies on the Render side cover the tool stream.
Teams using Render for service hosting who want agents to deploy, debug, and inspect services from inside the editor; Postgres-on-Render users who want database lifecycle tooling; multi-workspace Render organisations.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this128 stars on the render-oss/render-mcp-server repo. 7 commits on main in the last 30 days. Official Render maintenance carries the editorial weight.
// Reading thisPairs with the Vercel MCP entry as a PaaS option in the cloud category.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 4 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 4 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.2editorial | 128 | — | MAY 3, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 3, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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