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Who runs Heroku, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest platform as a service alternatives.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Heroku

Heroku heroku.com

Experience fully managed app hosting that just works. Build, deploy, and scale on the battle-tested platform that defines the industry.

Wikidata: cloud platform as a service

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Heroku tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

11 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 1 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
2 tools
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

  • Tag manager

    Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Heroku

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Heroku, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than HerokuNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to Heroku match.

  1. 01
    Railway railway.app Top 10K English No trackers

    Railway | The all-in-one intelligent cloud provider

    Railway is a full-stack cloud for deploying web apps, servers, databases, and more with automatic scaling, monitoring, and security.

    Compare Railway with Heroku →
  2. 02
    Fly.io fly.io English No trackers

    Fly.io | Deploy apps and agents on fast, hardware-isolated VMs

    Deploy apps, agents, and databases on fast, hardware-isolated VMs. Pay only for the seconds they run. Sign up free.

    Compare Fly.io with Heroku →
  3. 03
    Vercel vercel.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Agentic Infrastructure - Vercel

    The autonomous stack for every app and agent.

    Compare Vercel with Heroku →
  4. 04
    Northflank northflank.com English No trackers

    Northflank — The runtime platform for autonomous software

    The execution layer for a world where software builds and operates itself. Run AI agents and everything they generate.

    Compare Northflank with Heroku →
  5. 05
    Appwrite appwrite.io English No trackers

    Appwrite · The open-source cloud for developers and agents

    Appwrite is an open-source developer platform with Auth, Databases, Storage, Functions, Messaging, and Sites. The open-source cloud for agents and developers.

    Compare Appwrite with Heroku →
  6. 06
    Nhost nhost.io English No trackers

    Postgres Backend to Build, Deploy & Scale | Nhost

    Nhost is a managed backend platform with Postgres, GraphQL, Auth, Storage, and serverless Functions. Launch in minutes and scale without limits.

    Compare Nhost with Heroku →
  7. 07
    PlanetScale planetscale.com English No trackers

    PlanetScale - the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres

    PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.

    Compare PlanetScale with Heroku →
  8. 08
    Rackspace Technology rackspace.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Rackspace Technology | Where Enterprise AI runs and outcomes scale

    As a cloud computing services pioneer, we deliver proven multicloud solutions across your apps, data, and security. Maximize the benefits of modern cloud.

    Compare Rackspace Technology with Heroku →
  9. 09
    Xata xata.io English No trackers

    Xata – the branch native Postgres platform

    Start fresh or branch an existing Postgres in seconds. Scale to zero when idle.

    Compare Xata with Heroku →
  10. 10
    Yandex yandex.cloud English 1 tracker

    The secure, fault-tolerant cloud platform from Yandex

    Build your digital services and applications with the enterprise-grade cloud platform made by Yandex.

    Compare Yandex with Heroku →
  11. 11
    Supabase supabase.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Supabase | The Postgres Development Platform

    Build production-grade applications with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Realtime, Functions, Storage and Vector embeddings. Start for free.

    Compare Supabase with Heroku →
  12. 12
    Glitch glitch.com English No trackers

    Glitch Blog

    The official blog for glitch.com

    Compare Glitch with Heroku →
  13. 13
    DigitalOcean digitalocean.com Top 1K English No trackers

    AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean

    Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.

    Compare DigitalOcean with Heroku →
  14. 14
    Claranet clara.net Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Cloud, Cybersecurity, Managed Networks, and Communications Services | Claranet

    Modernise and protect your organisation with our expert approach and global leadership in transformation and technology.

    Compare Claranet with Heroku →
  15. 15
    Scaleway scaleway.com English No trackers

    European Cloud & AI. | Scaleway

    Build on a secure, transparent, and fast-moving cloud & AI platform built for what’s next.

    Compare Scaleway with Heroku →
  16. 16
    Teradata teradata.com English 1 tracker

    Autonomous Knowledge Platform | Teradata

    Teradata is the AI platform for the autonomous era, connecting and scaling across any environment.

    Compare Teradata with Heroku →
  17. 17
    Neon neon.tech Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Neon — Postgres backends for apps and agents

    The backend for apps and agents. Build with Lakebase Postgres, Auth, Functions, Storage, and an AI Gateway: instant, branchable, serverless.

    Compare Neon with Heroku →
  18. 18
    Cloud.ru cloud.ru Russian No trackers

    Cloud.ru — облачные сервисы и ИИ-технологии для бизнеса

    Cloud.ru — облачные сервисы и ИИ-технологии для бизнеса. Мы делаем доступ к облакам и ИИ простым и удобным. Более 130 IaaS- и PaaS-сервисов, дата-центры уровня Tier III и доступность по SLA 99,982%. Соответствие требованиям 152-ФЗ и 187-ФЗ.

    Compare Cloud.ru with Heroku →
  19. 19
    BrowserStack browserstack.com English 1 tracker

    Most Reliable App & Cross Browser Testing Platform | BrowserStack

    Instant access to 3500+ browsers and real iOS and Android devices for cross browser testing. Ship apps and websites that work for everyone, every time. Get Free Trial.

    Compare BrowserStack with Heroku →
  20. 20
    Firebolt firebolt.io English 1 tracker

    Firebolt: The Analytical Database for Engineers

    The analytical database for engineers, built for AI agents, real-time analytics, and efficient ELT, with the best price-performance in the market.

    Compare Firebolt with Heroku →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Heroku’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Heroku uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Heroku adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
41 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Heroku’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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