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

Who’s behind it
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Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
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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

3 of the 60 sites closest to Heroku match.

  1. 01
    Netlify netlify.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    Push your ideas to the web | Netlify

    Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.

    Compare Netlify with Heroku →
  2. 02
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering

    Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.

    Compare GitLab with Heroku →
  3. 03
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

    Compare GitHub 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

What changed

Price and policy 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
9,213
Vector
384-d
Query
87 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.

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Analytics
Tag managers
Security
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CDN
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Web servers
  • nginx header server: nginx
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
Email delivery
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DNS hosting
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SaaS tools (verified in DNS)