Heroku alternatives
Every application platforms provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Heroku's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Heroku's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Rendervs HerokuManaged connection pooling: Supported vs Limited · Persistent storage: Supported vs Not supported
- Google Cloud Runvs HerokuScales to zero: Supported vs Limited · Autoscaling: Supported vs Limited
- Railwayvs HerokuManaged connection pooling: Supported vs Limited · Persistent storage: Supported vs Not supported
- Azure Container AppsScales to zero: Supported vs Limited
- Fly.iovs HerokuManaged connection pooling: Supported vs Limited · Git deployment: Limited vs Supported
- NhostEntry paid plan: $25/month for Pro is a plan fee that includes $15 of compute credits, not the cost of a r…
- DigitalOcean App PlatformEntry paid plan: $5.00 per month for the smallest container: 1 shared vCPU, 512 MiB of RAM and 50 GiB of b…
- KoyebScales to zero: Supported vs Limited · Autoscaling: Supported vs Limited
- Cloudflare WorkersEntry paid plan: $5/month minimum charge for an account on the Workers Paid plan, which covers Workers, Pa…
- ZeaburPersistent storage: Supported vs Not supported
Where Heroku stands against these 10
Heroku's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Entry paid plan
- $5 per month (Eco dynos plan, 1000 dyno hours shared across the account)Joint cheapest of the 7 that document it. Level with: Cloudflare Workers — $5/month minimum charge for an account on the Workers Paid plan, which covers Workers, Pages Functions…
- Memory (entry plan)
- 0.5 GB RAM on the Eco dyno ($5 flat/month, the cheapest paid dyno) and 0.5 GB on BasicJoint highest of the 4 that document it. Level with: DigitalOcean App Platform — 512 MiB on the $5.00 container, the cheapest paid size; 1 GiB from $10.00.
- Sites or apps included
- 100 apps per account, platform-wide on all plans (Heroku Team 100, Enterprise Team 200)Highest of the 3 that document it. Next: Railway — 50 projects and 50 services per project on Hobby; Pro raises both to 100 and Enterprise is unlimited.
- Max request duration
- 30 seconds (initial window for the web process to return response data)4th highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: Google Cloud Run — 5 minutes by default, extendable to 60 minutes per request.
- Regions
- 2 regions on the Common Runtime, which is what a standard dyno runs in: eu (Europe) and us (United States)6th highest of the 6 that document it. Highest: Google Cloud Run — 43 regions, counted from Cloud Run's own locations list — Google publishes the list rather than a total. 20…
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.