# Heroku

Heroku is a polyglot PaaS — the original "git push to deploy" platform, now a business unit of Salesforce.


Source: https://www.findhost.app/heroku/
Last checked against the provider: 2026-08-12

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.heroku.com
- pricing: https://www.heroku.com/pricing
- status: https://status.heroku.com
- x: https://x.com/heroku
- bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/heroku.com
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/heroku
- github: https://github.com/heroku

### Identity

- founded: 2007
- headcount: unknown
- favorite: unknown
- ownership: subsidiary
- parent: salesforce
- status: active

### Classification

- category: paas
- whoManagesOs: managed
- infraContract: unknown
- runsOn: unknown
- cdnFrom: unknown
- useCases: ai-app, e-commerce, side-project
- audience: startup, smb, enterprise, agency
- wikidata: unknown

### Tech stack

- runtimes: node, ruby, python, java, php, go, scala, clojure, dotnet
- software: unknown
- specialisation: unknown
- sshAccess: unknown
- managedDatabases: postgres, redis, kafka
- gpuCapacity: unknown
- persistentStorage: unknown
- backupsIncluded: unknown

### Deployment

- deployMethods: git

### Pricing

- pricingModel: fixed-tier
- priceFrom: sm
- entryPrice: {"amount":5,"currency":"USD","period":"month"}
- priceTo: xl
- currencies: USD
- billingPeriods: monthly
- billingTiming: arrears
- exitWithin: a-month
- renewalMultiple: unknown
- freeTier: none
- contractMinimum: unknown

### Regions and law

- regions: US, IE, DE, GB, CA, IN, SG, AU, JP
- hqCountry: US
- gdprDpa: unknown

### Other features

- energyClaim: unknown
- certifications: unknown
- greenWebId: unknown
- domainRegistration: unknown
- dnsHosting: unknown
- emailHosting: unknown
- cdnIncluded: unknown
- testDomain: included
- collaboration: team
- staging: included

### Support

- supportChannels: unknown
- supportHours: unknown
- supportTiering: unknown

### Automation

- mcpServer: unknown
- cliTool: official
- apiAvailable: unknown
- iacSupport: unknown

### Sources

- entryPrice: https://www.heroku.com/pricing (read 2026-08-01)
- freeTier: https://www.heroku.com/pricing (read 2026-08-01)
- founded: https://www.heroku.com/about/ (read 2026-07-31)
- ownership: https://www.heroku.com/about/ (read 2026-07-31)
- parent: https://www.heroku.com/about/ (read 2026-07-31)
- hqCountry: https://www.heroku.com/about/ (read 2026-07-31)
- runtimes: https://devcenter.heroku.com/categories/language-support (read 2026-07-31)
- priceFrom: https://www.heroku.com/pricing (read 2026-08-02)
- priceTo: https://www.heroku.com/pricing (read 2026-08-02)
- currencies: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/usage-and-billing (read 2026-08-02)
- billingPeriods: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/usage-and-billing (read 2026-08-02)
- billingTiming: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/usage-and-billing (read 2026-08-02)
- exitWithin: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/usage-and-billing (read 2026-08-02)
- pricingModel: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-types (read 2026-07-31)
- regions: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions (read 2026-07-31)
- deployMethods: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-php (read 2026-07-31)
- cliTool: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-php (read 2026-07-31)
- managedDatabases: https://elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql (read 2026-07-31)
- useCases: https://www.heroku.com/ (read 2026-07-31)
- audience: https://www.heroku.com/ (read 2026-07-31)
- staging: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pipelines (read 2026-08-12)
- testDomain: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pipelines (read 2026-08-12)
- collaboration: https://heroku.com/teams (read 2026-08-12)

## Notes

Heroku was founded by James Lindenbaum, Adam Wiggins and Orion Henry and built for hosting Ruby on Rails applications. It popularised `git push` as a deployment interface, and one of its co-founders wrote the twelve-factor app methodology. Salesforce acquired the company in 2010, and Heroku describes itself on its own site as a business unit of Salesforce.

Officially supported languages are Node.js, Ruby, Python, Java, PHP, Go, Scala, Clojure and .NET. Applications deploy over a git remote or the Heroku CLI, and first-party data services cover Postgres, a Redis-compatible key-value store and Apache Kafka. The shared Common Runtime offers a US and an EU region; Private Spaces add named regions across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia on isolated infrastructure.

## Worth knowing

There is no free tier. The cheapest plan is a flat monthly subscription covering a pool of dyno hours shared across the account, on which a web dyno sleeps after a spell without traffic and takes a moment to wake, and it is restricted to personal applications — anything inside a Heroku Team starts a step higher. The ladder climbs steeply from there, and Private Spaces are priced per dyno on top of the space itself.

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