Heroku
Managed app platform with dynos, Postgres and add-ons
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At a glance
- Small VM
- $50 /mo
- 1 GB RAM (Standard-2X)
- PostgreSQL
- $50 /mo
- 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage (Standard-0)
What's good about Heroku
- Add-on marketplace for databases, logging, monitoring and email
- Postgres with forks, followers and rollback
- Network-isolated Private Spaces across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific
- Salesforce integration through Heroku Connect and AppLink
Pricing & billing
Heroku bills dynos and add-ons by the second, capped at each plan's monthly price. Eco dynos are the exception: a flat monthly fee covers a shared pool of hours.
Postgres and Key-Value Store are sold as fixed plans, and bandwidth has a soft monthly limit per app.
| Price point | Configuration | Estimated cost |
|---|---|---|
| Small VM 1 GB RAM (Standard-2X) | 1 GB RAM (Standard-2X) | $50.00 /mo |
| Medium VM 2.5 GB RAM (Performance-M) | 2.5 GB RAM (Performance-M) | $250.00 /mo |
| Large VM 14 GB RAM (Performance-L) | 14 GB RAM (Performance-L) | $500.00 /mo |
| Load balancer | Included in plan | |
| PostgreSQL 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage (Standard-0) | 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage (Standard-0) | $50.00 /mo |
| Redis 1 GB RAM (Premium-5) | 1 GB RAM (Premium-5) | $200.00 /mo |
| Egress allowance | 2 TB / mo per app | |
| Egress Soft limit of 2 TB / mo per app | Soft limit of 2 TB / mo per app | Not publicly listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
About Heroku
Heroku is a San Francisco app platform, founded in 2007 and owned by Salesforce, where developers deploy apps from Git onto managed containers called dynos. It pairs dynos with Heroku Postgres, Key-Value Store and a marketplace of third-party add-ons.
Since February 2026, Heroku runs on a sustaining engineering model: security, stability and support continue, new features do not ship, and Enterprise contracts are closed to new customers.
Example customers include World Economic Forum, PixieBrix, TAO Drive, Fastcall. More here.
Services
Heroku offers 4 of the 27 services we track.
| Service | Provider page |
|---|---|
| Managed Containers | On Heroku |
| Managed PostgreSQL | On Heroku |
| Managed Redis®* | On Heroku |
| Performance Monitoring | On Heroku |
Compliance
Heroku covers 5 of the 6 compliance frameworks we track.
| Framework | Level | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | devcenter.heroku.com | |
| ISO 27001 | heroku.com | ||
| HIPAA | devcenter.heroku.com | ||
| GDPR | devcenter.heroku.com | ||
| PCI DSS | Level 1, Heroku Shield only | devcenter.heroku.com |
Heads up: Each row links to the provider's own statement, checked on the date shown. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it.
Locations
Based on our records, Heroku operates in 10 locations across 9 countries.
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Our data for Heroku was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026.