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. PythonAnywhere icon
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    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.

    56 PythonAnywhere alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Aiven icon
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    One unified platform to stream, store, and serve data on any cloud.

    Aiven is a versatile platform empowering you with AI-driven workload optimization and control over your data. Deploy widely adopted technologies across multiple clouds with just a few clicks to stream, store, an.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Python
    • Homebrew
    • Linux
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  3. Google Compute Engine is the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) component elo of Google Cloud Platform which is built on the global infrastructure that runs Google's search engine, Gmail, YouTube and other services.

    133 Google Compute Engine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  4. Laravel Cloud icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Laravel
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. Amazon Lightsail is the fast and simple VPS hosting service from Amazon, the easy way to launch a virtual private server. You can have a VPS up and running with just a few clicks.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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  6. Stacktape icon
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    Stacktape is a tool that simplifies AWS for developers, enabling quick deployment of production-grade infrastructure. It transforms complex tasks into more manageable processes. Developers can now use an interactive config editor instead of manually writing YAML files, allowing...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Amazon Web Services
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. PlanetScale icon
     1 like

    The MySQL-compatible serverless database platform.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Easypanel icon
     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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Scalingo icon
     10 likes

    Scalingo is a Platform as a Service offering Cloud hosting to developers. Deploy, update and scale your apps and their data in 2 minutes. No Server, No devops, just happiness!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. Cloudify icon
     31 likes

    Cloudify is an orchestration-first, model-driven cloud management platform native to Network function virtualization (NFV), that is open source and based on the TOSCA standard.

    60 Cloudify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  11. Based on Apache OpenWhisk, IBM Cloud Functions is a polyglot functions-as-a-service (FaaS) programming platform for developing lightweight code that scalably executes on demand.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Porter icon
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    Porter is an alternative to Heroku that runs in your own cloud (AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, etc). Get started on Porter without the overhead of DevOps and fully customize your infra later when you need to.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

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