--- description: Review of Prerender Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Prerender | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice GB --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Website Optimisation Tools](/directory/4680/website-optimization/software) > [Prerender](/software/330667/prerender) # Prerender Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/330667/prerender Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/330667/prerender?page=2) > Prerender.io is a solution that pre-renders SPA JavaScript applications on the server before sending them to the browser. This allows search engines to crawl and index applications as if they were static HTML, even if they are not, or their site returns different content for search engine crawlers than for users. Prerender also supports automatic detection of AJAX pages, which means that if users have regular pages that just happen to require JavaScript during the loading process, they will be crawled by search engines as well. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 72 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 72 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 80% | (8/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Prerender ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$49.00 - **Pricing model**: Usage Based (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 208 more ## Features - API - Activity Dashboard - Data Import/Export - Performance Metrics - Problem Area Alerts - Real-Time Data - Reporting & Statistics - SEO Management - Website Analytics ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base ## Category - [Website Optimisation Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/directory/4680/website-optimization/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It works well and brings the value we need. > > **Cons**: No way to delete all cached websites from the dashboard. > > Very good ----- ### "A simple service for a simple task done right" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *30 November 2021* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Its easy to install, has support for most mayor libraries out there, has an API and is fully managed. It was easy to buy and they upgraded the control panel a few months later, which was nice and showed that there is still more work to be done. Its nice to see they are still working on this on a server-side-rendering age. The Admin panel is really nice and easy to use. Currently using it to serve almost 3k pages. > > **Cons**: Sometimes its hard to tweak it so it works on all pages. Im getting some blank pages that I cannot fix. I suspect its my code, as you need to tell it to save the snapshot at the right time. I guess the problem is in making it retry in case there is a timeout, so im always checking if I can improve on that side. ----- ### "Easy quick-start page caching for Single Page Applications" — 3.0/5 > **Dustin** | *2 December 2021* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 3.0/10 > > **Pros**: Prerender.io was a quick solution for when Bing.com was unable to index Single Page Applications. As a small website, Prerender.io was a reasonable solution. > > **Cons**: As our website evolved, traffic grew, and technology inevitably changed, the value proposition of Prerender.io became obsolete for us since we could build an in-house solution for much less than the cost paid to Prerender.io, as well as target the page caching much more efficiently. > > The platform itself is really simple. Not elegant. But simple. A bit too simple. A bit more control from within their dashboard would have bene nice. Also, the ability to select and delete more than 1 page of cached pages at a time would be really helpful. Our initial implementation cached all pages, including individual user-account pages. So the pages cached grew tremendously and needlessly. A filter on their end to filter out all pages behind a subdirectory would have been easy, but we ended up having to handle this on our end using our own developer. In the end, Prerender.io is a quick solution, but not an optimal one. ----- ### "Prerender solves common SPA problem" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *14 January 2022* | Publishing | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: We built and launched a SPA as part of our website, only to discover that Facebook, Google, and other crawlers weren't able to index our content as they where when it was all server-side. Prerender was a one-stop fix for the situation. We signed up, put in a few URLs, and magic presto, problem fixed. Bots got the Prerender-ized versions of the pages, served up as HTML. But our actual users got the SPA version, with the speed and power that entailed. Very simple, very easy. > > **Cons**: Pretty much everything worked as advertised - the only issue was with the pricing. We felt like the free tier didn't give us very much bang, but the next tier up felt like more money than we wanted to spend. We ended up writing a LOT of custom code for our CDN front end to handle this, but that was a real pain in the neck. If there had been a better pricing option we'd still be using Prerender. > > Worked exactly as advertised, with minimal technical lift. Did exactly what it said it would do. Overall was very happy with the product from a technical perspective. ----- ### "Happy to misused Prerender" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *24 January 2022* | Program Development | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: To be honest, my idea to use Prerender was completely other, than Prerender expects. I was misusing Prerender just a third-party deep and warm cache. The case I used Prerender was the following: - my client runs a website, based on very old, outdated Perl CMS (not Javascript - no React/Vue or the like), - there are no available IT resources to optimize website performance, - I'm not allowed too optimize performance by myself. The performance bottleneck was a slow website generation, inefficient templates, inefficient database queries. My idea was to use a third party service, which maintains a cache and keeps it warm. Misusing Prerender pushed Lighthouse metrics from around 40 to higher then 90, and stabilized the passing of the Core Web Vitals Assessment. The bottomline: I reached my goal and happy about this. Further I would recommend to any website owner who struggles with performance to use Prerender as cache - it worth to try anyway. > > **Cons**: I personally experienced no cons - maybe because of my use case has a limited application. ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/330667/prerender?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/330667/prerender) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data