Heroku AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Cloud Computing Services

The best Cloud Computing alternative to Heroku is OpenShift, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Heroku and loads of them are Cloud Computing Services so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Cloud Computing Service alternatives to Heroku are Vercel, Microsoft Azure, Linode and Railway.

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  1. OpenShift icon
     89 likes

    Red Hat OpenShift is a trusted, comprehensive, and consistent platform to develop, modernize, and deploy applications at scale, including today’s AI-enabled apps. Deliver better experiences faster with a complete set of services for bringing apps to market on your choice of infrastructure.

    65 OpenShift alternatives

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
     
  2. Vercel icon
     38 likes

    Deploy to the most powerful serverless platform in the world with just one command.

    92 Vercel alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Vercel vs Heroku Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    4

    Switched focus to frontend; Heroku-like servers are no longer supported.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Vercel is Freemium and ProprietaryHeroku is Paid and Proprietary
  3. Microsoft Azure icon
     66 likes

    The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s challenges and create the future. Build, run, and manage applications across multiple clouds, on-premises, and at the edge, with the tools and...

    194 Microsoft Azure alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Linode icon
     65 likes

    Linode’s cloud computing platform was launched in 2003, to accelerate innovation by making Linux virtual machines simple, affordable, and accessible to all. Since then, 100,000’s of developers and businesses around the world have deployed and scaled their modern applications...

    173 Linode alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  5. Railway icon
     9 likes

    Provision and manage infrastructure, develop locally, deploy to the cloud, dynamically scale servers, storage, and networking, automate service discovery, integrate with GitHub and Docker, apply configurable observability, and safely manage environments for full-stack applications.

    31 Railway alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.

    152 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
  7. This service provides over 200 scalable cloud offerings including networking, computing, storage, and IoT, accessible via global server farms. It features a pay-as-you-go model with autoscaling, extensive global infrastructure, and robust security tools, suitable for enterprises.

    168 Amazon Web Services alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Amazon Web Services vs Heroku Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    4

    Amazon needs your credit card, though it says free for 12 months. It say they will charge for any thing that doesn't come under free quota, which is weird as a experimentalist I can't be very cautious which button to press and to which not.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Amazon Web Services is Freemium and ProprietaryHeroku is Paid and Proprietary
  8. Fly.io icon
     12 likes

    Edge computing is the new frontier. Fly brings the untapped potential of intelligent edge-servers to your finger-tips. It's a global load balancer, a smart reverse proxy, a library of powerful Middleware; it's a CDN that developers like you control.

    56 Fly.io alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. Vultr icon
     54 likes

    Vultr, founded in 2014, is on a mission to empower developers and businesses by simplifying the deployment of infrastructure via its advanced cloud platform. Vultr is strategically located in 16 datacenters around the globe and provides frictionless provisioning of public cloud...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  10. Cloudways icon
     22 likes

    Cloudways provides managed hosting platform for deploying popular PHP based applications on infrastructure hosting in just a few clicks. It is affordable, you can configure the server as per your requirement and scale up later as and when needed.

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Cloudways vs Heroku Comments
    hasanraza90
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    0

    Cloudways offer managed cloud hosting

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Cloudways is Paid and ProprietaryHeroku is also Paid and Proprietary
  11. AWS Lambda icon
     5 likes

    AWS Lambda is a compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the underlying compute resources for you.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
  12. Flightcontrol is a PaaS that deploys to your AWS account.

    You get 2-6x faster builds, 50-75% cheaper compute, and near perfect reliability

    Deploying to your AWS account enables us to leapfrog traditional PaaS on almost every metric.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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