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The best free Web Hosting alternative to Heroku is Replit. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Heroku and many of them are free Web Hosting Services so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Web Hosting Service alternatives to Heroku are Coolify, Netlify, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and AWS Lambda.

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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

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  2. Netlify icon
     32 likes

    An all-in-one workflow that combines global deployment, continuous integration, and automatic HTTPS. And that’s just the beginning.

    71 Netlify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Netlify vs Heroku Comments
    jeantest
    Negative
    0

    Awesome service, only for static website

    • Netlify is Freemium and ProprietaryHeroku is Paid and Proprietary
  3. 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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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)
     
  6. Easypanel icon
     7 likes

    Modern server control panel using Docker for deploying Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, Go, and Java applications, offering quick templates, process monitoring, resource analytics, SSL management, and containerized isolation for simplified server and app control.

    28 Easypanel alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. 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)
     
  8. Clever Cloud icon
     15 likes

    We help developers deploy and run their apps with bulletproof infrastructure, automatic scaling, fair pricing and other awesome features. We aim to make an easy-to-use service, without any vendor lock-in and able to grow with your needs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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    Clever Cloud vs Heroku Comments
    Daniel McC
    Positive
    0

    It's a much cheaper and better version of Heroku

    • Clever Cloud is Freemium and ProprietaryHeroku is Paid and Proprietary
    • Clever Cloud is Privacy focusedHeroku is not according to our users
  9. Deploy Now icon
     6 likes

    Instantly setup & deploy any GitHub repo with Deploy Now. Just git push to update your website.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  10. Koyeb icon
     9 likes

    Koyeb is the serverless company delivering a next-generation platform to quickly deploy and run apps globally.

    41 Koyeb alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Koyeb vs Heroku Comments
    alisdair
    Positive
    0

    Koyeb is the best Heroku alternative for deploying web applications and services.

    You can deploy in multiple regions with a simple git push. The platform provides automatic continuous delivery, autoscaling, managed PostgreSQL databases, and a generous free tier.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Koyeb is Freemium and ProprietaryHeroku is Paid and Proprietary
  11. Kubero icon
     8 likes

    Kubero is a fully self-hosted Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that brings the workflows of Heroku to your Kubernetes cluster. It enables you to deploy your applications with a few clicks on the Dashboard or by CLI.

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    • Linux
    • Kubernetes
     
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