Reviewed alternatives
Compare products with a sourced competitor or replacement relationship to Heroku. Pricing is vendor-published and may vary by plan, seats, usage, or contract.
Infrastructure platform for deploying, hosting, and scaling applications and databases, billed on a per-second usage basis.
Published pricing
Free plan available
Categories
Hosting
Railway is frequently positioned by Railway itself and third parties as a modern replacement for Heroku's discontinued free tier and PaaS model.
Relationship verified September 25, 2026.
Unified cloud platform for hosting static sites, web services, background workers, cron jobs, and managed databases with usage-based pricing.
Published pricing
Free plan available
Categories
Hosting
Render is commonly cited across vendor and independent comparisons as a direct Heroku alternative for web services and background workers.
Relationship verified September 25, 2026.
Cloud computing platform providing virtual machines (Droplets), managed databases, Kubernetes, and the App Platform PaaS for deploying and scaling applications.
Published pricing
Free plan available
Categories
Cloud Infrastructure
DigitalOcean App Platform is listed among common Heroku alternatives for deploying and scaling applications with a managed PaaS experience.
Relationship verified September 25, 2026.