Heroku
Heroku is a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications without managing underlying infrastructure. Owned by Salesforce since 2010, it abstracts away server management and DevOps complexity.
Product intelligence for heroku.com. Updated from 10 sources. Is this your product?
Changelog
9 changes tracked · 9 sources · Ships every ~6 days
Heroku offers a free tier; Essential plans have max downtime of 4 hours per month; Standard plans have max downtime of 1 hour per month (+1 more)
Heroku introduced significant updates to Managed Inference and Agents on 2026-02-19
Heroku updated API Compatibility Policy on 2026-02-16
GitHub Enterprise Server Integration became available on 2026-02-11
Heroku released Go 1.26.0 and updated .NET SDK versions on 2026-02-10
Heroku added AppLink events to Enterprise Accounts audit trail on 2026-02-05
Heroku released Go 1.24.13 and 1.25.7 on 2026-02-04
Heroku updated stack security fixes on 2026-02-03
Heroku updated Ruby applications with Bundler 2.5.23 on 2026-02-02
Data Quality
10 of 14 intelligence sources gathered
Product Reference
Pricing & Plans
3 plans detected
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subscriptionCompetitive Landscape
Where Heroku sits in the market
Heroku offers simpler abstraction and faster time-to-deploy; Beanstalk provides more control and lower costs at scale. Heroku is PaaS-focused; Beanstalk is IaaS-adjacent with more infrastructure visibility.
Modern competitors with similar developer experience and pricing models. Heroku has brand recognition and ecosystem maturity; newer platforms offer more transparent pricing and competitive feature parity.
DigitalOcean targets cost-conscious developers with simpler infrastructure; Heroku emphasizes ease-of-use and managed abstractions. DigitalOcean competes on price; Heroku on developer experience.
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