The Basics

Heroku
Website heroku.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 10
Example Customers Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify
Linode
Website www.linode.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2003
Data Center Locations 24
Example Customers Panasonic, Best Buy, WayFair and Giphy

Cost Comparison

How do Heroku's prices compare against Linode?

Example configuration Heroku Linode
VM Small $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X) $5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M) $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L) $114.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated)
Block Storage -- $16.00 / mo 160 GB
Object Storage -- $20.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer Included in plan $10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage $65.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM --
Free egress allowance 2 TB / mo per app 1-20 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Not publicly listed $5.00

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 Heroku and Linode offer:

Service Heroku Linode
Block Storage --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®* --
Object Storage --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

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Our data for Heroku was last updated on March 28, 2024, and for Linode on Feb. 8, 2024.