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

Dimitri L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Save time, save money

Heroku is a time and money saver for every startup that needs to deploy fast without having a team for it. We saved invaluable resources just knowing that in one click, everything would keep up to date.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Heroku lets us avoid the hassle of setting our own servers, configure and update them. It saves a lot of time and enforces good practices.

Cons:

The PaaS paradigm can give less flexibility. There are workarounds, but you better rethink how you send mails, store local files or program a CRON.

Sam D.

Verified reviewer

Newspapers

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

Heroku is still one of the simplest and best out there

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Configuring and deploying a system is still about as simple as it's possible to be, their add-ons market makes creating and managing your infrastructure trivial, and the simple push-to-deploy mechanism makes releasing new versions easy.

Cons:

The only downside to Heroku is the price can grow faster than you might expect - though personally I don't mind this as the amount we save on not having our own devops team easily makes it worthwhile. I can see this being more of an issue for companies who have both an in house team and a Heroku instance.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

Configuration, management and troubleshooting would have to have been a manual process with Amazon services (the same would have been true for other cloud services) and this was what I was using Heroku to avoid.

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.

Farzam T.

Verified reviewer

Internet

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Easy to Use and Highly Flexible - A Winning Combination

I have been using Heroku for a few years now and have found it to be a great platform for quickly building and deploying applications. It is easy to use, highly flexible, and can easily scale as needed. The only downside is the cost, but for many applications it is well worth it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Heroku is a great platform for building and deploying applications quickly and easily. The user interface is intuitive and easy to use, and the service itself is highly flexible and powerful. With the ability to easily scale applications as needed, Heroku is a great choice for those who need a reliable and flexible platform.

Cons:

The only downside to Heroku is the cost. For larger applications, the cost of hosting can be quite high. Additionally, some features such as database backups and monitoring can be expensive to add on.

Reasons for switching to Heroku

When compared to other platforms, Heroku stands out for its ease of use and flexibility. It is much easier to set up and manage than other platforms, and it is more powerful and scalable than most of its competitors. In addition, the support provided by Heroku is top-notch, making it a great choice for those who need a reliable and powerful platform for their applications.

Suman K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2020

Heroku is easiest option for deployment.

I'd give 9.5 out of 10 for Heroku. This is the easiest deployment service I have ever seen. Add ons and dyno scaling makes is very good tool. The have nice documentation too in overall.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is the easiest option for deployment I have ever seen. And the option for addon is plenty. The option for dyno scaling is easy. Also Review app feature from Heroku is one of the most underrated features for them. We user review the app feature for all pull requests and all QA reviews.

Cons:

It is a bit expensive for a starter and low traffic web application. Most of the time debugging is pretty easy with Rollbar and Papertrail logs but those only works when the app already started. If the app cannot start after deployment it gives H10 error which is very generic and does not tell anything about the error.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

Because of the Ease of deployment and review app feature.

Vincent C.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2022

Free tiers are great to start off with for new developers / integrators.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Heroku cli ,and ease of attaching resources to 'applications'.

Cons:

gets costly with increased dyno units, and higher spec database (postgres).

Reasons for choosing Heroku

Trial stage, and very easy to provision and setup a working application prototype with full CI/CD

Reasons for switching to Heroku

trial and provision a PaaS solution.

Ricardo B.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Deployment of a machine learning as a service

The overall experience were good, I was able to deploy my environment and connect it on an application. I had hard time with libraries imcompatibilities, but it was fixed during the implementation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's graphical resources are very intuitive with easy "step by step" procedures. Their log service helped me go through issues and solve them.

Cons:

It could keep a free tier for small business like mine. I just have a POC and I have to pay to use it, as long as I know.

Reasons for switching to Heroku

Because I needed something easier to use and that was affordable.

Rafael B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used other for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed May 2021

Excellent for fast-deploy

We ran the first version of our app in Heroku, at the beginning of the company. The smooth and easy operation of heroku, helped us a lot on the initial days.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Good UX, extremely quick and easy to deploy solutions that need fast go-live. Pricing is simple to understand

Cons:

We found that for the early stage of our app, heroku handled it good, but as the app grew and we needed more customization, it lacked some features. Also, there was no Brazil based servers at that time.

Reasons for choosing Heroku

All in one solution, easy to deploy, clear understanding of pricing.

Alessandro R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Very application oriented

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

With Heroku, I can deploy my application with no effort! What I need is to write 1 line config file and focus on my application. I like to deploy my application directly from GitHub, then Heroku takes care of the rest!

Cons:

The concepts about execution time and price are a bit hard to understand at first.

Reasons for switching to Heroku

Lambda AWS requires too much work to configure the stack/service. Heroku doesn't.

Rohit M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

Excellent Platform as a service provider with good support!

We have greate Experience with Heroku till now, we have deployed multiple Web-apps through Heroky and they all are running smoothly without any issues. i would highly recommend heroku, they also have few service available for free so one can use it to test their system or can use it to test the Web-app performance.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Heroku is a trusted PAAS provider Available in the market, they support Variety of Programming Languages and databases. one can easily integrate it with any other third party Source control or versioning control software to track the source code and other things. We can use it to deploy modern Web-Application written in various programming languages.

Cons:

Heroku is a great service provider till now but it is bit expensive at other side, they provides Quality support though but services could be little cheaper. they supports lots of software and tools but i didnt find the comprehensive Documentation to integrate the tools and services they should add documentation for those.

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