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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  1. Amazon Web Services icon

    Amazon Web Services

     41 likes

    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.

    164 Amazon Web Services alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Comments about Amazon Web Services as an Alternative to Heroku
    Guest
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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.
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    Amazon Web Services icon

    • This alternative is disputed. Amazon Web Services is a legitimate Heroku alternative, but it might have issues that some users think are important.

    • Amazon Web Services is Freemium and ProprietaryHeroku is Paid and Proprietary
  2. Fly.io icon

    Fly.io

     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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. SwiftWave icon

    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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    HostArmada

    HostArmada offers web hosting services using cloud technology to improve website loading speed, security, and system stability. The service allows hardware upgrades without downtime or data loss. HostArmada has optimized its host...

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  6. Appwrite icon

    Appwrite

     18 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.

    32 Appwrite alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  7. Laravel Cloud icon

    Laravel Cloud

     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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. AWS Elastic Beanstalk icon

    AWS Elastic Beanstalk

     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  10. Vultr icon

    Vultr

     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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  11. Cloudways icon

    Cloudways

     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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Comments about Cloudways as an Alternative to Heroku
    hasanraza90
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    Cloudways offer managed cloud hosting

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Some users think Cloudways is a great Heroku alternative, some don't.

    • Cloudways is Paid and ProprietaryHeroku is also Paid and Proprietary
  12. Google Cloud Run icon

    Google Cloud Run

     2 likes

    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Kubernetes
    • Google Cloud Platform
     
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    AWS Lambda

     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.

    18 AWS Lambda alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  14. Google Cloud VPC icon

    Google Cloud VPC

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    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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  15. PythonAnywhere icon

    PythonAnywhere

     42 likes

    PythonAnywhere is a Python development and hosting environment that displays in your web browser and runs on cloud servers. The servers are already set up with everything you need: hundreds of useful Python packages and web frameworks are supported out of the box.

    55 PythonAnywhere alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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