| What it does | Cloud application platform for building, deploying, and scaling apps
| Open source cloud infrastructure that runs on bare metal providers with 3-10x cost savings
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| Stage | Established
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| Founded | 2007
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| Based in | US
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| Pricing model | Paid
| Freemium
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| Pricing | Dynos: Eco $5/month, Basic $7/month, Standard-1X $25/month, Standard-2X $50/month, Performance-M $250/month, Performance-L $500/month, Performance-XL $750/month, Performance-2XL $1,500/month. Fir dynos: Classic 1CPU-0.5GB $25/month, Classic 2CPU-1GB $50/month, General Purpose 2CPU-4GB $80/month, Gen
| GitHub Actions runners: Standard x64 from $0.00125/min (2 vCPU, 8GB), Premium x64 from $0.002/min, arm64 from $0.00125/min. Compute VMs: Standard from $0.00104/min ($41.89/mo for 2 vCPU), Burstable from $0.00026/min ($10.47/mo). Managed PostgreSQL: Standard from $78/month (2 vCPU), Hobby from $19.54
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| Key features | - Dynos: smart containers for running applications
- Heroku Postgres: fully managed PostgreSQL database service
- Heroku Key-Value Store: managed Redis service
- Automatic scaling from hobby to enterprise
- Fast rollback for code and database
- GitHub integration and Review Apps
- Support for 9+ programming languages
- Heroku Teams for team collaboration
- Managed inference and AI agents
- PCI, HIPAA, ISO, and SOC compliance
| - Elastic Compute - provision, use, and delete isolated VMs on bare metal
- Virtual Networking - public and private networking with IPv4 and IPv6, firewall rules, and load balancer
- Block Storage - encrypted block devices with optional replication
- Managed PostgreSQL - latest versions with automatic backups, point-in-time restore, and high availability
- Attribute-Based Access Control - define roles and provide fine-grained access control
- GitHub Actions runners - managed runners with 10x cost reduction
- Managed Kubernetes - deploy and scale container workloads
- AI Inference - inference endpoints and API keys for model deployment
- Machine Images - capture VM disks as reusable, versioned images
- Encryption at rest and in-transit for VMs
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| What makes it different | - Fully managed platform eliminates infrastructure maintenance
- From git push to production in seconds
- Handles 65+ billion requests daily
- Meticulous design focused on developer experience
- Trusted by startups, industry giants, and everyone in between
| - 3-10x lower costs than AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
- Open source software for transparency and portability
- Avoids vendor lock-in with freedom and portability
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| Community votes | 0 | 0 |
| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 88 ● no change since last check | 55 ▼ −1 (down) since last check |
| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 69 | 27 |
| Citation Flow (Majestic) | 58 | 42 |
| Referring domains (Majestic) | 20133 | 833 |