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Heroku
Who runs Heroku, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest platform as a service alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Render
Measured from Heroku’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Heroku01 · 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.
3 of the 60 sites closest to Heroku match.
- 01
Push your ideas to the web | Netlify
Create with AI or code, deploy instantly on production infrastructure. One platform to build and ship.
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
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.
Very close
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
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 39 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
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.heroku.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Analytics
- Parse.ly page source: cdn.parsely.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/prism/1.30.0/prism.min.js?ver=1.30.0
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX smtp.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 ip4:167.89.4.18 include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org in…
- DNS hosting
- NS1 NS dns4.p01.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: V8eEvIkb6RQqJca9Wf-o9baurAQMe54VKxd06IeaFeg
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 17/20
- Apple Business · not on heroku.com 10/20
- OpenAI · not on heroku.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on heroku.com 9/20
- DocuSign · not on heroku.com 8/20
- React · not on heroku.com 8/20
- Stripe · not on heroku.com 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on heroku.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Next.js · not on heroku.com 6/20
- Atlassian · not on heroku.com 6/20
- HubSpot · not on heroku.com 5/20
- Notion · not on heroku.com 5/20
- Zoom · not on heroku.com 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on heroku.com 5/20