List of Heroku Alternatives You Should Consider

Heroku will stop offering its free Dynos, Postgres, and Redis data for free as of November 28th, 2022.

List of Heroku Alternatives You Should Consider

Why are people looking for Alternatives to Heroku?

Users of Heroku stated that in May 2022, they received a "Heroku security notice" from Salesforce notifying them that the database that houses the pipeline-level configuration data for Review Apps had been compromised. The Heroku GitHub connectors were reportedly temporarily banned at the moment, preventing users from accessing the Review app's functionality and forcing them to hunt for alternatives.

Then, on August 25, Bob Wise, the Heroku GM and Salesforce EVP said that Heroku will be abandoning its free tier soon. As Wise stated in his announcement blog post:

Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year. Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services. We will be sending out a series of email communications to affected users.

People are searching for different options as a result of these headlines. Some folks are searching for free substitutes for their present Heroku setup. Some users are quitting Heroku because of constraints and other challenges, while others are ready to adopt a commercial arrangement.

List of Heroku Alternatives:

Consequently, I'm not surprised to see a few "Heroku Alternatives" lists popping up now and then.

To enable you to choose the platform that best suits you, I felt it would be beneficial to compile and publish all of our notes in one location.

Note:

The choices are presented below in alphabetical order. Is there anything I missed, let me know in the comments :)

Acorn

  • A straightforward framework for Kubernetes application deployment - Single artefact for development, testing, and production - Simple CLI and potent API - Secure by design - Open source.

Adaptable

  • The easiest way to deploy your stack application. (Node.js, AppFeathers.js, APIExpress, Prisma, AppNode.js, Feathers.js).

  • You only need to connect your GitHub repository and Adaptable will take care of the rest.

Appliku

  • Deploy Django in 5 minutes.

  • Digital Ocean and AWS allow you to deploy unlimited applications.

  • The creator of Appliku wrote about the backstory in creating the platform here.

AWS Amplify

  • Frontend web and mobile developers can create full-stack applications on AWS with the help of a collection of tools and capabilities called AWS Amplify, which gives them the freedom to use the range of AWS services as their use cases change.

  • You can simply manage app content outside the AWS interface with Amplify, establish a web or mobile app backend, connect your app in minutes, and visually build a web frontend UI. Without the requirement for cloud skills, deliver more quickly and scale with ease.

Back4app

  • Low-code backend to build modern apps.

Caprover

  • Formerly CaptainDuckDuck, a PaaS that is free and open source!

  • For your NodeJS, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, WordPress (and other apps), CapRover is a remarkably simple-to-use app/database deployment & web server management!

Cloudflare Pages

  • Best for hosting Static Sites.

  • It's a powerhouse when you combine pages.cloudflare.com (unlimited hosting 100% free, no underlying restrictions), workers.cloudflare.com (extremely generous free plan for serverless tasks), and all the other nice stuff (R2, Durable Objects, KV, etc.).

  • Build fast sites. In record time. Cloudflare Pages is a JAMstack platform for frontend developers to collaborate and deploy websites.

  • Numerous alternatives for free - You can use pages for free (unlimited hosting) with Cloudflare Workers (free plan for serverless functions).

Cloudflare references blog

Coherence

Code, Preview, Deploy.

  • Get dev environments, full-stack branch previews, and deployments in one cohesive development experience — running in your cloud.

Coolify

  • Made self-hosting simple.

  • An alternative that is open-source and self-hosted (and even more).

Cuber

  • Deploy your apps on Kubernetes easily.

  • Cuber is a free automation tool that can build and deploy your apps on Kubernetes.

  • Using Cuber instead of Heroku and other PaaS you can save up to 80% on server costs.

Cycle

  • The Low-Ops Platform for Building Platforms.

  • Cycle is an integrated platform designed to act as a link between your infrastructure and your code.

  • Connect your servers, import your containers, and scale.

Cyclic

  • Full stack apps - Connect your GitHub repo. We will build, deploy and manage the hosting.

  • Authorize our GitHub app and you will have a fully featured software pipeline.

  • 3 apps, 100,000 API requests, 1GB runtime memory, 512MB of temporary storage, 1GB of object storage (AWS S3), 1GB of database storage (AWS DynamoDB), unlimited lightning-fast builds, public GitHub repositories, hosting close to you, 3 Cron tasks per app, 7-day log retention, and community support are all included in the** Free Forever plan.**

Deta - The Cloud for Developers

  • Deta is free forever.

  • Get your Python & Node.js apps / APIs on the internet in seconds.

Devtron

  • Open source Software delivery workflow for Kubernetes.

Dokku

  • An open source PAAS alternative to Heroku.

  • Dokku helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.

Dom Cloud

  • Classic Web Hosting Made Easy.

  • A hosting service that serves all.

Fathym

  • Create and use micro frontends in an open, headless environment.

  • I strongly advise giving it a shot if you want to develop a micro frontend app.

Firebase

  • Firebase Hosting offers fast and secure hosting for your web app, static and dynamic content, and microservices.

  • Firebase Hosting is production-grade web content hosting for developers.

  • With a single command, you can quickly deploy web apps and serve both static and dynamic content to a global CDN (Content Delivery Network).

  • To build microservices on Firebase, you may use Cloud Run or Cloud Functions in conjunction with Firebase Hosting.

Fleek

  • Fleek makes it simple to create websites and apps for the next open web, which is permissionless, trustless, censorship resistant, and decentralised.

Fly

  • Run App Servers Close to your Users.

  • Deploy your full stack applications and databases all over the world. No ops required.

  • Free tier includes the following features - Up to 3 shared cpu-1x 256MB VMs. 3GB persistent volume storage (total). 160GB outbound data transfer

Google Cloud Platform - Run

  • Build and deploy scalable containerized apps using your favourite language (Go, Python, Java, Node.js, .NET) on a fully managed serverless platform.

Humanitec

  • Enable developer self-service.

  • Engineering teams can eliminate bottlenecks by using the Platform Orchestrator to create code-based golden routes for engineers.

  • Free tier includes the following features - Free forever, Up to 5 users, Community Support

Koyeb

  • Global application deployment in the shortest time possible.

  • Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-Ops, servers, or infrastructure management.

  • Free tier with the following features: Run Web Apps, APIs, and workers. Continuous deployment with Git. Global load-balancing with HTTP/2 and full SSL. Containers, Node, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Elixir, and more. Up to 2GB of RAM per service, charged by the second. $5 free credit every month. Infrastructure autohealing. Built-in autoscaling. High-Performance Edge Network. Service Mesh & Discovery. Automatic OS patching. Pay-per-use by the second.

  • And here is a writeup on how to migrate your Heroku apps to Koyeb.

Livecycle

  • Receive immediate code review with contextual visual comments on top of temporary preview environments.

  • Up to five active team members are free. Unlimited members, free for open source projects for all time.

  • Livecycle connects to any existing preview environment pipeline to add the contextual collaboration layer to environments that are created. So it actually works together with these platforms to create a more collaborative review workflow.

  • Additionally, a self-serve version of the service is available, and it will produce the actual ephemeral preview environment for every PR (not just the collaboration and annotation layer).

Microsoft Azure

  • Build in the cloud with an Azure free account. Create, deploy, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge

Microtica

  • Your apps. Deployed on AWS in minutes. Production-ready infrastructure and application templates to build solutions on AWS without ever opening the console.

  • Free tier with the following features:

    1. Environment (shared Kubernetes Cluster)

    2. Kubernetes Services

    3. 100 build minutes per month

    4. 20 deployments per month

Netlify

  • Build and deploy sites to the worldwide network instantly from Git. Rollbacks, deploy previews, HTTPS, custom domains, and a lot more.

Northflank

  • Deploy databases, jobs, and code in seconds.

  • A comprehensive developer platform with a strong UI, API, and CLI for creating and scaling managed databases, tasks, and microservices.

Patr

  • Deploy your application in 60 seconds. An easy-to-use cloud platform to deploy static sites, web apps, databases, containers & more

Platform.sh

  • The cloud PaaS to secure, develop and deploy websites and web applications.

Qoddi

  • Forget about bandwidth, infrastructure, updates, networks, and security and start deploying your code right away. Get rid of Kubernetes and AWS: A tier 1 network hosts Qoddi, a fully managed app hosting platform, which is 10% less expensive than competing products.

Qovery

  • On-demand environments provide 4x faster testing and release of features.

  • Qovery is a platform that enables rapid deployment of production-like environments in your AWS account, enabling developers to test and release features more quickly.

  • Free tier with the following features: Free Forever No CC required, Deploy on your AWS account, Unlimited Developers, Up to 1 cluster, Up to 5 Environments, Preview Environment in one click, Community support (forum), Up to 100 deployments per month.

Railway

  • Bring your code, the rest will be taken care of. Made for any language, for projects big and small.

  • Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software.

  • See this tweet from the creator of Railway, who offers to assist users moving from Heroku to their platform.

ReleaseHub

  • Environments as a Service. On-demand environments for development, staging and production.

Render

  • The fastest way to host all your web apps.

Shipyard

  • Managed Ephemeral Environments. Build faster with On-Demand environments for Developers, Product, and QA teams on every Pull Request.

Tsuru

  • Tsuru is an open source Platform as a Service software, focused on Developer productivity.

Vercel

Develop. Preview. Ship.

  • Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance.

  • Vercel, a business that promotes developer experience across the board, has long been regarded as one of the pioneers in this field.

The Bottom Line

The reality is that there isn't truly a bottom line. There are many options available to accommodate virtually every tech stack, use case, and corporate profile in this constantly expanding market. Knowing what's available can help you and your team make an informed choice, allowing you to concentrate on creating your fantastic products and services.

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