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What staying awake really costs
Our checks count as traffic. Pick an interval and see what it spends of your 750 free instance-hours.
Watchpost checks every
We check every 5 minutes. The other intervals are here for comparison — they show what they would cost, not what we do.
about 3 hours awake a day · 660 hours you never touch
Your service still sleeps between checks, so a visitor arriving in a quiet hour waits about a minute for the wake. We call that WAKING, not DOWN.
This is our projection from our own checks. Render publishes no meter we can read, so treat it as a warning line, not a bill.
Every interval, side by side
Render sleeps a free web service after 15 idle minutes, so every interval at or under 15 costs exactly the same — the service never gets the chance to stop.
| Interval | Hours / month | Share of 750 | Sleeps? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 min | 720 | 96% | never sleeps |
| 15 min | 720 | 96% | never sleeps |
| 30 min | 360 | 48% | sleeps between checks |
| 60 min | 180 | 24% | sleeps between checks |
| 120 min | 90 | 12% | sleeps between checks |
Calculated from this month's real length, not an average.