Render
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Manage your Render.com services, deployments, and infrastructure.
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- niyogi
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- Cloud Service, Infrastructure
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Setup
Install Render in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/niyogi/render-mcp
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
Deploy toRender.comdirectly through AI assistants.
This MCP (Model Context Protocol) server allows AI assistants like Claude to interact with the Render API, enabling deployment and management of services on Render.com.
This server covers everything Render's official MCP server doesplusmutating operations their server intentionally omits (triggering deploys, deleting resources, managing custom domains, restarting, and cancelling deploys).
- List all services and get details of a specific service
- Create services: genericcreate_serviceplus typedcreate_web_service,create_static_site, andcreate_cron_job
- Deploy, restart, and delete services
- Manage environment variables and custom domains
- Get deployment history, get a single deploy, and cancel an in-progress deploy
- List workspaces, get workspace details, and select a default workspace so create/logs/metrics tools don't need anownerIdeach call
- List and filter logs (list_logs) and enumerate log label values
- Fetch performance metrics (get_metrics): CPU, memory, HTTP requests/latency, bandwidth, instance count, active connections
- Postgres: list, get, create, and runread-onlySQL queries (query_render_postgres)
- Key Value (Redis): list, get, and create instances
Note onquery_render_postgres:this tool connects to your database using thepgdriver and enforces read-only access (single statement,SELECT/WITH/EXPLAIN/SHOWonly, run inside aREAD ONLYtransaction). Runnpm installafter installing the package to ensure thepgdependency is present.
- Get your Render API key fromRender Dashboard
- Configure the MCP server with your key:
node bin/render-mcp.js configure --api-key=YOUR_API_KEY
Alternatively, you can runnode bin/render-mcp.js configurewithout the--api-keyflag to be prompted for your API key.
Note: If you've installed the package globally, you can also use the shorter commands:
render-mcp start render-mcp config render-mcp doctor
The quickest way is theclaude mcp addCLI, which registers the server vianpx(no global install needed):
claude mcp add render -e RENDER_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY -- npx -y @niyogi/render-mcp start
By default this adds the server to the current project. Use a scope flag to change that:
- -s user— available across all your projects
- -s project— shared with your team via a checked-in.mcp.json
- -s local(default) — just this project, only for you
Alternatively, add it manually to your MCP config (.mcp.jsonin the project root, or~/.claude.jsonfor user scope):
{ "mcpServers": { "render": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@niyogi/render-mcp", "start"], "env": { "RENDER_API_KEY": "YOUR_API_KEY" } } } }
Instead of passing the key viaenv, you can store it once withnpx @niyogi/render-mcp configure(saved to~/.render-mcp/config.json) and omit theenvblock.
Then verify the connection inside Claude Code with the/mcpcommand —rendershould appear as connected and its tools listed.
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Add the following to your Cline MCP settings file:
{ "mcpServers": { "render": { "command": "node", "args": ["/path/to/render-mcp/bin/render-mcp.js", "start"], "env": { "RENDER_API_KEY": "your-render-api-key" }, "disabled": false, "autoApprove": [] } } }
Restart Cline for the changes to take effect
You can now interact with Render through Claude:
Claude, please deploy my web service to Render
node bin/render-mcp.js configure --api-key=YOUR_API_KEY
Start the MCP server in a separate terminal:
In Windsurf/Cursor settings, add the Render MCP server:
- Server Name: render
- Server Type: stdio
- Command: node
- Arguments: ["/path/to/render-mcp/bin/render-mcp.js", "start"]
You can now use the Render commands in your AI assistant
For custom applications using Claude's API directly:
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Ensure the render-mcp server is running:
In your application, when sending messages to Claude via the API, include the MCP server connections in your request:
{ "mcpConnections": [ { "name": "render", "transport": { "type": "stdio", "command": "node", "args": ["/path/to/render-mcp/bin/render-mcp.js", "start"] } } ] }
Claude will now be able to interact with your Render MCP server
Here are some example prompts you can use with Claude once the MCP server is connected:
- "List all my services on Render"
- "Deploy my web service with ID srv-123456"
- "Create a new static site on Render from my GitHub repo"
- "Show me the deployment history for my service"
- "Add an environment variable to my service"
- "Add a custom domain to my service"
- "List my Render workspaces and select the team one"
- "Show me the error logs for srv-123456 from the last hour"
- "What's the CPU and memory usage for srv-123456?"
- "Query my Render Postgres: SELECT count(*) FROM users"
- "Restart my service srv-123456"
- "Create a Postgres database and a Redis instance for my app"
git clone https://github.com/niyogi/render-mcp.git cd render-mcp npm install npm run build
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