What's good about...

Heroku logo Heroku

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

Heroku logo Koyeb

  • Generous free tier, competitive pricing
  • Easy to use, integrations with popular tools such as Terraform and Pulumi
  • Serverless PostgreSQL available
  • Based in the EU, may ease compliance requirements

Price comparison

How do Heroku's prices compare against Koyeb?

Example configuration Heroku Koyeb
VM Small $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X) $10.71 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (eMedium)
VM Medium $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M) $42.85 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (eXLarge)
VM Large $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L) $85.71 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (e2XLarge)
Load Balancer Included in plan Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage $104.81 / mo 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Large), 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM --
Free egress allowance 2 TB / mo per app 100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo) $40.00 $0.04 / GB

Koyeb offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
RTX4000-SFF-ADA 1x RTX4000 20GB 6 44GB $0.50
V100-SXM2 1x V100 16GB 8 44GB $0.85
L4 1x L4 24GB 15 44GB $1.00
L40S 1x L40S 48GB 30 92GB $2.00
A100 1x A100 80GB 15 180GB $2.70
H100 1x H100 80GB 15 180GB $3.30

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 of the managed services that Heroku and Koyeb offer:

Service Heroku Koyeb
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®* --

Company details

Heroku
Website heroku.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 10
Example Customers Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify
Koyeb
Website koyeb.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 2020
Data Center Locations 6
Example Customers Tesla, Equinix, Upstash, MongoDB, Kong, Aiven

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Our data for Heroku was last updated on Oct. 2, 2024, and for Koyeb on Aug. 14, 2024.