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

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  1. Replit icon
     90 likes

    Replit is a collaborative cloud development environment offering in-browser IDE features like AI assistance, real-time collaboration, Git support, hosting, deployment, syntax highlighting, plugin extensibility, ad-free UI, dark mode, and live code sharing.

    97 Replit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  2. Vercel icon
     38 likes

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

    92 Vercel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • 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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. 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

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  5. Laravel Cloud icon
     4 likes

    Effortlessly deploy and scale Laravel apps without server management. Enjoy built-in autoscaling, caching, and enterprise-grade security. Start quickly in under 60 seconds with zero configuration, access logs, metrics, and more. Manage multiple environments and team collaboration seamlessly.

    61 Laravel Cloud alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

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    • Online
     
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    Cloudways vs Heroku Comments
    hasanraza90
    Positive
    0

    Cloudways offer managed cloud hosting

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Cloudways is Paid and ProprietaryHeroku is also Paid and Proprietary
  8. Cloud Run is a managed compute platform that enables you to run stateless containers that are invocable via HTTP requests. Cloud Run is serverless: it abstracts away all infrastructure management.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Kubernetes
    • Google Cloud Platform
     
  9. 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
     
  10. 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)
     
  11. Stacktape icon
     4 likes

    Stacktape is a tool that simplifies AWS for developers, enabling quick deployment of production-grade infrastructure. It transforms complex tasks into more manageable processes. Developers can now use an interactive config editor instead of manually writing YAML files, allowing...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Amazon Web Services
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  12. Porter icon
     2 likes

    Porter is an alternative to Heroku that runs in your own cloud (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, etc). Get started on Porter without the overhead of DevOps and fully customize your infra later when you need to.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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