Heroku

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

www.heroku.compricingstatus

The original git push to deploy.

Classification

Categories: Platform as a Service
Operating system: Managed
Use cases: AI and LLM apps, Online shops, Side projects 11
Audience: Startups, Small and medium businesses, Enterprises, Agencies 11

Tech stack

Runtimes: Node.js, Ruby, Python, Java, PHP, Go, Scala, Clojure, .NET 5
Managed databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka 10

Pricing

Pricing model: Fixed tier7
Entry price: $5 to $15 a month 3
Starting price: from $5 a month3
Typical ceiling: $150 to $500 a month3
Currencies: USD 6
Billed: Monthly6
Paid: In arrears, for usage already run up6
Exit: Within a month 6
Free tier: None3

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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.

Identity

Founded: 20074
Reach: ↑6,340 2
Ownership: Subsidiary 4
Parent: Salesforce 4
Status: Active
Wikidata: Q2350702 1

Deployment

Deployment: Git 9

Regions and law

Regions: United States, Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Singapore, Australia, Japan 8
Headquarters: United States 4

Other features

Test domain: Included12
Collaboration: Team members13
Staging: Included12

Automation

CLI: Official9

Sources

2026-09-09: Wikidata
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2350702
2026-09-07: Reach
majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
2026-08-01: Starting price, Free tier, Entry price, Typical ceiling
www.heroku.com/pricing
2026-07-31: Founded, Ownership, Parent, Headquarters
www.heroku.com/about/
2026-07-31: Runtimes
devcenter.heroku.com/categories/language-support
2026-08-02: Currencies, Billed, Paid, Exit
devcenter.heroku.com/articles/usage-and-billing
2026-07-31: Pricing model
devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-types
2026-07-31: Regions
devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions
2026-07-31: Deployment, CLI
devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-php
2026-07-31: Managed databases
elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql
2026-07-31: Use cases, Audience
www.heroku.com/
2026-08-12: Staging, Test domain
devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pipelines
2026-08-12: Collaboration
heroku.com/teams

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