Heroku review

Heroku ranks eighth. It still offers one of the cleanest Git-push workflows, with container orchestration, automatic OS patching and automated certificate management handled for you. Apps run in dynos: Eco costs $5 a month for 0.5 GB but sleeps after 30 minutes of inactivity and is limited to personal accounts, while Basic at $7 adds free SSL, 10 process types and stays always on. Standard-1X at $25 adds horizontal scaling, app metrics and threshold alerts, preboot and zero-downtime deploys and unlimited background workers. Performance dynos from $250 add dedicated compute and autoscaling, and Private Spaces add network isolation. Heroku now offers two generations, Cedar for full platform integration and the Kubernetes-powered Fir for more observability and control. The weakness is value: there is no free plan, and production-grade features cost more per dyno than comparable instances on Render, Railway or DigitalOcean, which pulls its value score down.

Who it is for

Teams that want a mature Git-push platform with a long-established add-on and data services catalog.

Price

Eco dynos from $5 per month; Basic $7; Standard-1X $25.

Eco $5 0.5 GB 1x-4x No
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.

Key features

• Deploy with Git and Docker, custom domains and unified logs
• Container orchestration, automatic OS patching and automated certificate management
• Standard dynos add horizontal scaling, app metrics, preboot and zero-downtime deploys
• Performance dynos with dedicated compute and autoscaling
• Choice of the Cedar generation or the Kubernetes-powered Fir generation

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Mature Git-push workflow with managed runtimes
• Strength: Clear dyno tiers from $5 to dedicated Performance sizes
• Strength: Private Spaces for network isolation
• Weakness: No free plan
• Weakness: Eco dynos sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity and are for personal accounts only
• Weakness: Production features start on Standard-1X at $25 per dyno a month

Key facts

• Free plan: No
• Cheapest dyno: Eco, $5 per month, 0.5 GB
• Always-on dyno: Basic, $7 per month
• Generations: Cedar and Fir

Where it ranks

Heroku is No. 8 in our Best App Hosting Platforms verdict.