The Basics

Cloudflare
Website cloudflare.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2009
Data Center Locations 285
Example Customers Polestar, Carrefour, DHL, Hemnet, Shopify
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 Cloudflare's prices compare against Heroku?

Example configuration Cloudflare Heroku
VM Small -- $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)
VM Medium -- $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)
VM Large -- $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)
Object Storage $19.86 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer -- Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL -- $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions $82.50 / mo 25M invocations, 150 ms duration --
Free egress allowance -- 2 TB / mo per app
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free for most services 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 Cloudflare and Heroku offer:

Service Cloudflare Heroku
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers --
Managed PostgreSQL --
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage --
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites --

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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on Feb. 9, 2024, and for Heroku on March 28, 2024.