Free Self-Hosted Heroku Alternatives

Heroku is not available as a self-hosted solution but there are plenty of alternatives for power users and business that want to host a solution on-premise. The best free Self-Hosted alternative is CapRover. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Heroku and many of them are free and available as a self-hosted solution so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Self-Hosted alternatives to Heroku are OpenShift, Coolify, SwiftWave and Appwrite.

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Heroku alternatives are mainly Server Management Tools, but if you're looking for Web Hosting Services or Cloud Computing Services you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free + Web Hosting, Open Source, Self-Hosted + Free and Free. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Heroku.
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  1. CapRover icon

    CapRover

     47 likes

    CapRover is an extremely easy to use app/database deployment & web server manager, PaaS, for your NodeJS, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, WordPress (and etc...) applications!

    51 CapRover alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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    CapRover vs Heroku Comments
    Top Positive Comment
    Guest
    5

    it's very similar with UI and app management. Very easy to use.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    1

    CapRover is self-hosted, Heroku is a hosting service provider.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Positive
    0

    CapRover deployments are 10x cheaper than Heroku

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • CapRover is Free and ProprietaryHeroku is Paid and Proprietary
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    OpenShift

     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
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    SwiftWave

     8 likes

    SwiftWave is a self-hosted, lightweight PaaS solution for easily deploying and managing your applications on any server. It's an open-source alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Render.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  7. Appwrite icon

    Appwrite

     19 likes

    Secure open-source backend server for web and mobile developers. Appwrite provides developers with a set of easy-to-use and integrate REST APIs to manage their core backend needs.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  8. Easypanel icon

    Easypanel

     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

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  10. SST icon

    SST

     2 likes

    Build modern full-stack serverless applications on AWS with Next.js, SvelteKit, Remix, Astro, Solid, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Amazon Web Services
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  11. Dokku icon

    Dokku

     18 likes

    Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. Radius icon

    Radius

     3 likes

    Radius is an open-source, cloud-native, application platform that enables developers and the operators that support them to define, deploy, and collaborate on cloud-native applications across public clouds and private infrastructure.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Self-Hosted
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  13. Knative icon

    Knative

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    Kubernetes-based platform to deploy and manage modern serverless workloads.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Kubernetes
     
  14. Flynn icon

    Flynn

     3 likes

    Flynn is an open-source PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) inspired by Heroku that simplifies deploying and maintaining applications.

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  15. Kyma icon

    Kyma

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    Kyma /kee-ma/ is a platform for extending applications with microservices and serverless Functions. It provides CLI and UI through which you can connect your application to a Kubernetes cluster.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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