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# Heroku

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> Cloud-based PaaS for businesses that helps develop, manage \& deploy web and mobile-based applications to enhance customer engagement.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 304 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Heroku?

Application development PaaS designed for businesses of all sizes that helps run, deploy, manage, and scale apps using various computer programming languages available.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 304 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Salesforce
- **Location**: San Francisco, US
- **Founded**: 2003

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$7,00
- **Pricing model**: Other (Free version available) (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Free: 1 web/1 worker

Hobby: 10 Process Types: $7 per dyno/month

Professional - Standard/Performance: $25 - $500 per dyno/month.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Collaboration Tools
- Compatibility Testing
- Continuous Delivery
- Continuous Integration
- Dashboard
- Data Security
- Debugging
- Deployment Management
- Graphical User Interface
- Integrated Development Environment
- Monitoring
- Multiple Programming Languages Supported
- Version Control

## Integrations (3 total)

- GitHub
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Slack

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat

## Category

- [App Development Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30082/application-development/software)

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## Alternatives

1. [GitHub](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/129067/github) — 4.8/5 (6155 reviews)
2. [Essential Studio](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/32602/essential-studio) — 4.5/5 (903 reviews)
3. [Microsoft Visual Studio](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/101288/microsoft-visual-studio) — 4.6/5 (3004 reviews)
4. [Jira](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/19319/jira) — 4.4/5 (15312 reviews)
5. [IntelliJ IDEA](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/136010/intellij-idea) — 4.7/5 (1256 reviews)

## Reviews

### "A decent platform for deploying any type of application" — 5.0/5

> **Vasilis** | *24 December 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
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> **Pros**: With Heroku I really like how easy it easy to deploy your server and also the very rich add-ons ecosystem that it has.
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> **Cons**: I really loved the hobby plan that Heroku had but it seems that now it's not available.
> 
> My overall experience with Heroku was positive. I used it for hosting my Strapi instance and everything was great.

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### "Easy Deployments but a Little Pricey" — 4.0/5

> **Vinicius** | *23 February 2025* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Heroku presents an quick way to automate deployments and cloud management.
> 
> **Cons**: It's really expensive. I don't understand why. I sunsetted its free tier a few years ago, unfortunately.
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> I've been using heroku for years to deploy and manage web applications made in Ruby on rails.

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### "Great way to deploy quickly" — 5.0/5

> **Edgar** | *22 December 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The ease of use :

You simply have your app running locally, Now you don’t want to reinstall everything on a server you manage.

You simply use git push and the code is deployed
> 
> **Cons**: The cost is a bit high compared to bare vms. With a simple website with a database and some redis, you’ll probably pay 80€/month

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### "Makes deployment easier" — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *21 November 2024* | Health, Wellness & Fitness | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Easy to use in terms of deploying web apps
> 
> **Cons**: Bug fixing and logging could use some improvements
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> Overall positive experience. Had issues in deploying web apps that occurred bugs and tracking logs could use some improvements.

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### "Best platform for hobby and production apps" — 5.0/5

> **Danilo** | *20 February 2020* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Heroku has a very intuitive and well-organized dashboard, it offers a simple vision of your apps' databases, with tools like backup \& restore, access to a console inside the database instance, and simple statistics. The deploy is only a git push to a previously configured remote, and the output is shown just right in the terminal, which is very good because I don't need to open a browser to verify the deploy status.
> 
> **Cons**: Therefore the documentation is very complete and full of support links and articles, maybe it could be better suited for junior developers, because some things seems a little out of order, like, they don't say that you need to provision a database instance, but already give you the database setup commands.
> 
> Best platform for hobby and production apps, great documentation and very easy for ruby/rails apps.

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