What's good about...
Cloudflare
- Every service runs in every datacenter, 300+ cities
- No egress fees on R2 object storage or Workers
- Free tier covers CDN, DNS, WAF and DDoS mitigation
- One platform for serverless compute, storage, SQL and vector search
Heroku
- Fully-managed infra, minimal ops overhead
- Heroku Postgres is a one-click, battle-tested database
- Extensive add-on marketplace
Price comparison
How do Cloudflare's prices compare against Heroku?
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Object Storage
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Load Balancer
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Managed PostgreSQL
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Managed Redis®*
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Serverless 25M Executions
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Free egress allowance
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Cloudflare and Heroku offer:
Company details
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|---|---|---|
| Website | cloudflare.com | heroku.com |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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United States of America
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| Founded | 2009 | 2007 |
| Data Center Locations | 312 | 10 |
| Example Customers | Shopify, DoorDash, Discord, Intercom, Zendesk | Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify |
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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on Sept. 1, 2026, and for Heroku on Feb. 12, 2026.