Heroku

Cloud Application Platform

As of 30 August 2026, Heroku starts at $5/month. Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that lets companies build, deliver, monitor and scale apps with simplicity and ease. Softwr lists it under Cloud. Heroku is made by Salesforce/Heroku, launched in 2007, available on Web, API.

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Overview

What Heroku does

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that lets companies build, deliver, monitor and scale apps with simplicity and ease. It enables developers to focus on delivering value to customers.

What people use it for

Application hosting
Database as a service
CI/CD pipelines
API deployment

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Heroku.

There is no free dyno tier; the cheapest Eco dyno is $5 per month
Eco dynos sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity, are restricted to personal accounts and allow only 2 process types
Free SSL and 10 process types start at the Basic dyno at $7 per month
Private and Shield dyno types require a Private Space, which is billed on top of the dynos
Private Space dynos start at $250 per month for Private-M and $500 per month for Private-L
Dyno prices are per dyno per month, so an app with several process types multiplies the bill

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Heroku

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

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Pricing

What Heroku costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Eco Dyno

$5 /mo

0.5 GB RAM
Git/Docker deploy
Custom domains
Sleeps after 30 min inactivity

Basic Dyno

$7 /mo

0.5 GB RAM
Always-on
Free SSL
10 process types

Standard-1X Dyno

$25 /mo

0.5 GB RAM
Horizontal scaling
App metrics
Zero-downtime deploys

Standard-2X Dyno

$50 /mo

1 GB RAM
Horizontal scaling
App metrics
Zero-downtime deploys

Performance-M Dyno

$250 /mo

2.5 GB RAM
Dedicated resources
Autoscaling
Predictable performance

Capabilities

Features

Git-based deployment
Buildpacks
Dynos (containers)
Add-ons marketplace
Postgres database
Environment variables
Logging
API
GitHub
Integration with GitHub
Slack
Integration with Slack
Datadog
Integration with Datadog
New Relic
Integration with New Relic

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

How much does Heroku cost?

Heroku dyno pricing starts at $5 per month USD for the Eco tier (with 30-minute inactivity sleep), $7 per month for Basic (always-on), and scales up to $1,500 per month for Performance-2XL with 126 GB RAM.

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What is the cheapest always-on Heroku plan?

The Basic Dyno at $7 per month USD is Heroku's cheapest always-on container option. It provides 0.5 GB RAM, free SSL, and support for 10 process types.

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How is Heroku Postgres priced?

Heroku Postgres Essential tier (shared resources) starts at $5-$20 per month for 1-32 GB disk. Standard tier (dedicated) ranges $50-$12,000 per month. Premium, Private, Shield, and Advanced tiers offer higher performance at corresponding prices.

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Behind it

Who makes Heroku

Company: Salesforce/Heroku
Based in: San Francisco, CA

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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Heroku, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.