Cloudways vs Heroku

In this page:

What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Cloudways

Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups

Heroku

Fully-managed infra, minimal ops overhead
Heroku Postgres is a one-click, battle-tested database
Extensive add-on marketplace

Price comparison

How do Cloudways's prices compare against Heroku?

Example configuration	Cloudways	Heroku
VM Small	$11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB)	$50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)
VM Medium	$88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB)	$250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)
VM Large	$149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB)	$500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)
Load Balancer	--	Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	Included depending on plan	$200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance	1 TB - 12 TB / mo included depending on plan	2 TB / mo per app
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider)	Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo)

Note: Our 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 managed services that Cloudways and Heroku offer:

Service	Cloudways	Heroku
Block Storage		--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
Managed Containers
Managed MySQL		--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*
Virtual Private Server (VPS)		--

Company details

	Cloudways	Heroku
Website	www.cloudways.com	heroku.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012	2007
Data Center Locations	--	10
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko	Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify

	Cloudways
Website	www.cloudways.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko

	Heroku
Website	heroku.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007
Data Center Locations	10
Example Customers	Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify