Heroku
Cloud Application Platform·heroku.com
Heroku is a fully managed, container-based cloud application platform for deploying, managing, and scaling apps. It runs applications inside 'dynos' — smart, isolated containers — and offers integrated managed data services (Postgres, Key-Value Store, Kafka) plus AI tooling for building and running modern applications. It supports multiple programming languages natively or via custom buildpacks and provides enterprise features like private networking, compliance-ready environments, and team collaboration.
What it's for
Features 24
- Apache Kafka on Heroku
- App metrics and threshold alerts
- Automated certificate management
- Automatic OS patching
- Autoscaling on Performance dynos
- Buildpacks and Add-ons marketplace
- Container-based app hosting via dynos
- Custom domains
- Fast rollback of code or Postgres data
- Git-based and Docker-based deployment
- GitHub integration with Review Apps
- Heroku Connect for Salesforce data sync
- Heroku Flow continuous delivery pipelines
- Heroku Key-Value Store (managed Redis)
- Heroku Managed Inference and Agents (AI models)
- Heroku Postgres managed PostgreSQL database
- Heroku Shield for HIPAA/PCI-compliant environments
- Heroku Teams collaboration and permissions
- Horizontal and vertical scaling
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) hosting
- pgvector support for vector search/RAG
- Preboot and zero-downtime deploys
- Private Spaces for network-isolated environments
- Unified logging
At a glance
Integrations
Complianceself-reported
Resources
Pricing
Prices shown are for Heroku's Cedar dyno tiers. A separate Fir (Kubernetes-powered) dyno tier line-up with its own pricing also exists. Additional pricing for Heroku Data Services (Postgres, Key-Value Store, Kafka) and Heroku AI is referenced via separate pricing tabs but not itemized with figures here.
Deploy with Git and Docker, Custom domains, Unified logs, 2 process types, Container orchestration, Automatic OS patching, Automated certificate management
0.5 GB RAM, 1x-4x compute; sleeps after 30 minutes of inactivity; personal accounts only
0.28 Dyno Units / Month
0.5 GB RAM, 1x-4x compute; always on
1 Dyno Unit / Month
0.5 GB RAM, 1x-4x compute
2 Dyno Units / Month
1 GB RAM, 2x-8x compute
8 Dyno Units / Month
2.5 GB RAM, 12x compute
16 Dyno Units / Month
14 GB RAM, 50x compute
16 Dyno Units / Month
30 GB RAM, 24x compute
30 Dyno Units / Month
62 GB RAM, 50x compute
60 Dyno Units / Month
126 GB RAM, 100x compute
5 Dyno Units / Month
1 GB RAM, 12x compute; requires Private Space
10 Dyno Units / Month
2.5 GB RAM, 12x compute; requires Private Space
20 Dyno Units / Month
14 GB RAM, 50x compute; requires Private Space
20 Dyno Units / Month
30 GB RAM, 24x compute; requires Private Space
30 Dyno Units / Month
62 GB RAM, 50x compute; requires Private Space
60 Dyno Units / Month
126 GB RAM, 100x compute; requires Private Space
6 Dyno Units / Month
1 GB RAM, 12x compute; requires Private Space
12 Dyno Units / Month
2.5 GB RAM, 12x compute; requires Private Space
24 Dyno Units / Month
14 GB RAM, 50x compute; requires Private Space
24 Dyno Units / Month
30 GB RAM, 24x compute; requires Private Space
36 Dyno Units / Month
62 GB RAM, 50x compute; requires Private Space
72 Dyno Units / Month
126 GB RAM, 100x compute; requires Private Space