How much does Heroku cost?

Heroku publishes 5 tiers, from $5/month for Eco Dyno up to $250/month for Performance-M Dyno. The cheapest paid tier is $5/month.

Does Heroku have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Heroku is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Eco Dyno and Basic Dyno on Heroku?

Basic Dyno costs $7/month against $5/month, and adds always-on, free ssl, 10 process types.

Is the Performance-M Dyno plan on Heroku worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 2.5 gb ram, dedicated resources, autoscaling, predictable performance. It costs $250/month against $5/month for Eco Dyno. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which cloud tools can I use without paying?

6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Heroku have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.

What am I actually paying for with Heroku?

The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for application hosting, database as a service, ci/cd pipelines.

Does Heroku charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Heroku prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Heroku against before paying?

The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Heroku covering price, platforms and features.

Cloud · pricing

Heroku pricing

Heroku publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 30 August 2026, Heroku pricing is $5/month across 5 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: $5/month
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 5
Free tier: Not on record

Heroku plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Heroku pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Eco Dyno	$5/month	4	Entry tier
Basic Dyno	$7/month	4	+$2/month, 3 more features
Standard-1X Dyno	$25/month	4	+$18/month, 3 more features
Standard-2X Dyno	$50/month	4	+$25/month, 1 more feature
Performance-M Dyno	$250/month	4	+$200/month, 4 more features

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Eco Dyno

$5/month

The entry tier. It covers 0.5 gb ram, git/docker deploy, custom domains, sleeps after 30 min inactivity.

Basic Dyno

$7/month

Over Eco Dyno, this tier adds:

Always-on
Free SSL
10 process types

Standard-1X Dyno

$25/month

Over Basic Dyno, this tier adds:

Horizontal scaling
App metrics
Zero-downtime deploys

Standard-2X Dyno

$50/month

Over Standard-1X Dyno, this tier adds:

1 GB RAM

Performance-M Dyno

$250/month

Over Standard-2X Dyno, this tier adds:

2.5 GB RAM
Dedicated resources
Autoscaling
Predictable performance

What the product covers

The full Heroku feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

Git-based deployment
Buildpacks
Dynos (containers)
Add-ons marketplace
Postgres database
Environment variables
Logging
API

Integrations

GitHub
Slack
Datadog
New Relic
SendGrid
AWS S3

Security

HTTPS
OAuth
Security headers

Deployment

Cloud deployment

Platform

Web support
Api support
Workers support

People bring Heroku in for application hosting, database as a service, ci/cd pipelines, api deployment. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Heroku are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Cloud

Across the 3 cloud tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $5/month. Heroku starts at $5/month, which puts it in line with the middle of its category.

Heroku entry price against other Cloud tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Heroku (this page)	$5/month	subscription	-
Rook	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Heroku
OpenEBS	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Heroku
Portworx	$0.33/node hour	Per node hour	-	vs Heroku
Longhorn	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Heroku
Qovery	On request	quote	-	vs Heroku
Dokku	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Heroku

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Heroku badges page.

Before you pay for Heroku

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 5 tiers between $5/month and $250/month, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Heroku against the tools that do have one before committing.

Heroku runs on web, api, workers, and is published by Salesforce/Heroku of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the Heroku review, and the rest of the category is under best cloud tools.

Heroku pricing on the vendor's own site

Heroku pricing questions

How much does Heroku cost?: Heroku publishes 5 tiers, from $5/month for Eco Dyno up to $250/month for Performance-M Dyno. The cheapest paid tier is $5/month.
Does Heroku have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold: Heroku is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
What is the difference between Eco Dyno and Basic Dyno on Heroku?: Basic Dyno costs $7/month against $5/month, and adds always-on, free ssl, 10 process types.
Is the Performance-M Dyno plan on Heroku worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is 2.5 gb ram, dedicated resources, autoscaling, predictable performance. It costs $250/month against $5/month for Eco Dyno. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Is Heroku expensive for a cloud tool?: It starts in line with the middle of its category. Across the 3 cloud tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $5/month; Heroku starts at $5/month.
Which cloud tools can I use without paying?: 6 of the 8 cloud tools listed alongside Heroku have a free tier: Rook, OpenEBS, Longhorn, Dokku, Coolify.
What am I actually paying for with Heroku?: The record lists 21 features across 5 areas: other, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for application hosting, database as a service, ci/cd pipelines.
Does Heroku charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Heroku prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Heroku against before paying?: The closest cloud tools in this directory are Rook, OpenEBS, Portworx, Longhorn. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Heroku covering price, platforms and features.