The Basics

Civo
Website civo.com
Headquarters United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Founded 2015
Data Center Locations 5
Example Customers TrueFoundry, Fermyon, Defense.comâ„¢
Heroku
Website heroku.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 10
Example Customers Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify

Cost Comparison

How do Civo's prices compare against Heroku?

Example configuration Civo Heroku
VM Small $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)
VM Medium $40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)
VM Large $160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $10.00 / mo 1 TB, unlimited data transfer --
Load Balancer $10.00 / mo Single node Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $40.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $20.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance -- 2 TB / mo per app
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free and unlimited Not publicly listed

Note: These pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Civo and Heroku offer:

Service Civo Heroku
Block Storage --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

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Our data for Civo was last updated on April 4, 2024, and for Heroku on March 28, 2024.