Heroku 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

Name: Heroku
Rating: 4.6 (304 reviews)

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Overview

Heroku

4.6

(304)

Pricing

Starting at $7.00 per month

About Heroku

Heroku is a cloud-based application development platform that supports multiple programming languages. It helps developers effectively manage and scale applications written in open language frameworks and sources. The application takes care of the infrastructure that is required to efficiently deploy apps across multiple areas, allowing users to focus on developing.

Heroku is connected to the most popular workflows and tools that are being used today. It is highly effective at running and managing applications written in Ruby, Node.js, Java, Scala, PHP, Go and Clojure. The software eliminates the need to switch between different programs for coding by providing a single window platform that supports all languages.

Heroku helps developers run, scale and build applications in a single format across every language it supports. It uses dependences and Procfile to expose the architectural aspects of an application so that developers can independently scale each component.

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Heroku Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $7.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Free

$0.00

Plan includes:

Automatic OS Patching
Container Orchestration
Custom Domains
Deploy With Git & Docker

Hobby

$7.00

per month

Plan includes:

Always-on
Automated Certificate Management
Automatic OS Patching
Container Orchestration
Custom Domains
Deploy With Git & Docker
SSL

Standard

$25.00

per month

Plan includes:

App Metrics
Automated Certificate Management
Automatic OS Patching
Background Workers
Container Orchestration
Custom Domains
Deploy With Git & Docker
Horizontal Scalability
Preboot
SSL

Performance

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

App Metrics
Automated Certificate Management
Automatic OS Patching
Autoscaling
Background Workers
Container Orchestration
Custom Domains
Dedicated Resources
Deploy With Git & Docker
Horizontal Scalability

Private

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

App Metrics
Automated Certificate Management
Automatic OS Patching
Autoscaling
Background Workers
Container Orchestration
Custom Domains
Dedicated Resources
Deploy With Git & Docker
Full Network Isolation

Shield

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

App Metrics
Automated Certificate Management
Automatic OS Patching
Background Workers
Container Orchestration
Custom Domains
Dedicated Resources
Deploy With Git & Docker
Horizontal Scalability
Preboot

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Heroku Features

Popular features found in Application Lifecycle Management
Bug Tracking
Change Management
Collaboration Tools
Issue Management
Project Management
Requirements Review
Task Management
Test Case Tracking
Version Control
Workflow Management
More features of Heroku
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
API
Cloud Computing
Compatibility Testing
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Custom Development
Dashboard
Data Security
Debugging
Deployment Management
For Developers
Graphical User Interface
Integrated Development Environment
Load Testing
Mobile Development
Monitoring
Multiple Programming Languages Supported
Projections
Reporting/Analytics
Single Sign On
Software Development
Source Control
Third-Party Integrations
Web App Development

Heroku Integrations

GitHub

Integration rated 4.8 from 32 reviews

Salesforce Sales Cloud

Slack

Heroku User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

64%

31%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.4

Vasilis K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

A decent platform for deploying any type of application

My overall experience with Heroku was positive. I used it for hosting my Strapi instance and everything was great.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

With Heroku I really like how easy it easy to deploy your server and also the very rich add-ons ecosystem that it has.

Cons:

I really loved the hobby plan that Heroku had but it seems that now it's not available.

Reasons for switching to Heroku

I switched to Heroku because it had a hobby plan which was free and it was ideal for hosting small prototyping applications. Although, it seems that now the free tier is no longer available.

Vinicius L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

Easy Deployments but a Little Pricey

I've been using heroku for years to deploy and manage web applications made in Ruby on rails.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Heroku presents an quick way to automate deployments and cloud management.

Cons:

It's really expensive. I don't understand why. I sunsetted its free tier a few years ago, unfortunately.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

Heroku was easier to use than DigitalOcean.

Reasons for switching to Heroku

I needed to switch from Python to Ruby, which wasn't supported by Python Anywhere at that time.

Danilo N.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Best platform for hobby and production apps

Best platform for hobby and production apps, great documentation and very easy for ruby/rails apps.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Heroku has a very intuitive and well-organized dashboard, it offers a simple vision of your apps' databases, with tools like backup & restore, access to a console inside the database instance, and simple statistics. The deploy is only a git push to a previously configured remote, and the output is shown just right in the terminal, which is very good because I don't need to open a browser to verify the deploy status.

Cons:

Therefore the documentation is very complete and full of support links and articles, maybe it could be better suited for junior developers, because some things seems a little out of order, like, they don't say that you need to provision a database instance, but already give you the database setup commands.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

Simple of use, free-tier without expiring date, documentation and very easy for ruby/rails apps.

Edgar H.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

Great way to deploy quickly

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use : You simply have your app running locally, Now you don’t want to reinstall everything on a server you manage. You simply use git push and the code is deployed

Cons:

The cost is a bit high compared to bare vms. With a simple website with a database and some redis, you’ll probably pay 80€/month

Reasons for choosing Heroku

It is more used and has a bigger team backing it up

Dylan C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2023

Unparalleled Platform as a Service

Heroku made it incredibly easy as a small team to build our startup with a lean team of developers and just focus on building the things that matter instead of fiddling with server configs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Heroku as a service allows small teams of developers to be insanely productive. We have never needed anybody to be a DevOps expert, we can just develop and deploy with zero-config.

Cons:

Heroku is expensive compared to equivalent specced offerings from other cloud providers, but most of the cost is in how easy it makes deployment.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

Heroku just allowed us to go to production from day one with zero fuss and has scaled with us as we've grown. It provides every add-on and resource that we have ever needed from our servers.

Yashovardhan J.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Best Place to run node.js for backend work

Overall, my experience with Heroku has been good. They offer great service and are always improving their offerings. The documentation is excellent and the support is responsive. I haven't had any major issues with using Heroku. They make it easy to get my app up and running quickly and easily. The documentation is great and the support team is responsive and helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

First, it is very easy to use and set up. You can get your app up and running in just a few minutes. Second, it has great documentation and support. If you have any problems, you can usually find a solution in the Heroku docs or on the Heroku support site. And finally, Heroku is always adding new features and improving their platform. I also liked the ease of use and the concise documentation.

Cons:

The least liked thing about Heroku is the way it charges for resources. For example, if you want to keep your app running continuously, you have to pay for a dyno (virtual machine) every month. This can add up quickly if you have multiple apps or need to run multiple dynos simultaneously.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

It is specifically designed for node.js than other services

Thiago V.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Easy to scale PaaS in top of Amazon regions for your own or orgs git projects

Heroku has a friendly UI and set it up very easily with git flow inside a corporation. The way it scales up/down its really intuitive and makes a team work without issues. However, sometimes, the PaaS lacks in display some different regions availability and have a higher cost for private spaces, so need some planning before implementing in your org to check if fits with your needs.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The way Heroku let you scale up clustered instances using the dynos all through an friendly UI its a really useful feature that makes effortless get your app up and running to handle huge amount of traffic. Also its really simple setup a Review App pipeline created automatically by a git hook which makes easy create versions of the app based in a PR Review or purposed change.

Cons:

I think Heroku lacks in display different regions in the free tier and also private spaces. This limit your application for certain regions - if you're planning have a Data Residency and Region availability isn't recommended in my opinion. Also Heroku depends 100% with Amazon availability - once some regions of amazon or ec2 was off last year, the whole panel wasn't able to access. I would suggest have a backup plan with dynos in a different provider to have resilience in third-party providers.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

I think Heroku still have an intuitive UI that makes easier for a team manage without go over so much documentation or troubleshooting if something happens. Also the company provide some support and buildpacks for legacy code, like frameworks such as Meteor and different Node versions.

David B.

Verified reviewer

Public Relations and Communications

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

Most straight forward git push deployment around

Wonderful developer / DevOps experience. In ~6 years of using the service we've hardly seen any issues attributable to Heroku itself (rather to AWS which they buiding their service on top of).

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Very simple to deploy and configure. Allows developers to manage deployments and serverside configuration without the need for a dedicated DevOps team. Apart from just running applications their Heroku Postgres offering is rock-solid (and last I checked: the largest Postgres cloud deployment in the world).

Cons:

- Support for 0 downtime deploys via "preboot" is too rudimentary. Preferably it would verify that the deployed code actually managed to boot before routing traffic. Also no built in support for canary deploys. - Could use more dyno types (ie. instance types) to fit more use-cases. However introducing more options would also complicate the product and business model so understandable that it's kept simple. - Somewhat overpriced. - For security focused enterprise organisations the lack of fine grained security settings might be an issue.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

Ease of use. Good reputation. Perfect fit for Ruby on Rails applications.

Reasons for switching to Heroku

Switching from bare metal to cloud was a pretty obvious thing to do back in 2014. We chose Heroku since they were the de-facto PaaS for Ruby on Rails applications and we wanted to allow developers to manage deployments without a dedicated DevOps team.

Verified

Reviewer

Telecommunications

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2021

always want to love Heroku, keep getting stuck on like

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Heroku is great for turn keying an app or DB during the early days

Cons:

lack of console or the ability to just get a straight shell is always why we leave, project after project

Reasons for choosing Heroku

we tend to use render.com and netlify as we scale and probably will cease using heroku as an MVP or random experiment provider in next year or so

Ramon D.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

For all applications

My API and database is in heroku, in free mode, and meets the requirements well. Fully integrated with git, after each commit + push the service is automatically restarted with updates.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is highly scalable, starting with a free version and then scaling up as needed. Deploying and Continuing Integration is very useful as well as being integrated with git, keeping your master up to date.

Cons:

Sometimes I get confused about the real usefulness of each tab in web configurations, but it is something that is little used, does not disturb.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

price, user-friendly interface, free mode of use, git integration already implemented

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