Heroku Alternatives

Heroku is described as 'Platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud' and is a very popular Cloud Hosting service in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Heroku, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including SaaS, Self-Hosted, Linux and Windows apps. The best Heroku alternative is CapRover, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Heroku are OpenShift, Replit, Coolify and Kubernetes.

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Heroku alternatives are mainly Cloud Hosting Services, 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. 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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    Amazon Web Services vs Heroku Comments
    Guest
    Negative
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    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
  2. SwiftWave icon
     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.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  3. Appwrite icon
     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.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
     
  4. 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

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    • Online
     
  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

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    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) service from Amazon Web Services that allows users to create applications and push them to a definable set of AWS services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 and elastic load balancers, plus several other AWS services.

    13 AWS Elastic Beanstalk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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
    Positive
    0

    Cloudways offer managed cloud hosting

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Cloudways is Paid and ProprietaryHeroku is also Paid and Proprietary
  9. 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

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    • Online
    • Kubernetes
    • Google Cloud Platform
     
  10. 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
     
  11. Google Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) provides networking functionality to Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instances, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) containers, and the App Engine flexible environment.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  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

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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