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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.

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
↑6,3402
Ownership
Subsidiary4
Parent
Salesforce4
Status
Active
Wikidata
Q23507021

Deployment

Deployment
Git9

Regions and law

Regions
United States, Ireland, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Singapore, Australia, Japan8
Headquarters
United States4

Other features

Test domain
Included12
Collaboration
Team members13
Staging
Included12

Automation

CLI
Official9

Sources

  1. 2026-09-09: Wikidata
    www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2350702
  2. 2026-09-07: Reach
    majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
  3. 2026-08-01: Starting price, Free tier, Entry price, Typical ceiling
    www.heroku.com/pricing
  4. 2026-07-31: Founded, Ownership, Parent, Headquarters
    www.heroku.com/about/
  5. 2026-07-31: Runtimes
    devcenter.heroku.com/categories/language-support
  6. 2026-08-02: Currencies, Billed, Paid, Exit
    devcenter.heroku.com/articles/usage-and-billing
  7. 2026-07-31: Pricing model
    devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dyno-types
  8. 2026-07-31: Regions
    devcenter.heroku.com/articles/regions
  9. 2026-07-31: Deployment, CLI
    devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-php
  10. 2026-07-31: Managed databases
    elements.heroku.com/addons/heroku-postgresql
  11. 2026-07-31: Use cases, Audience
    www.heroku.com/
  12. 2026-08-12: Staging, Test domain
    devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pipelines
  13. 2026-08-12: Collaboration
    heroku.com/teams
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