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Heroku vs Azure

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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

Microsoft Azure logo Azure

  • Integrations with the rest of Microsoft's products
  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to AI
  • Generous free tier, and compute savings plans available
  • 60+ datacenter locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Heroku's prices compare against Azure?

VM Small

Heroku Heroku
$50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)

VM Medium

Heroku Heroku
$250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)

VM Large

Heroku Heroku
$500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)

Block Storage

Heroku Heroku
--
Microsoft Azure Azure
$8.10 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Heroku Heroku
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$21.50 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Heroku Heroku
Included in plan
Microsoft Azure Azure
$23.25 / mo Standard

Managed PostgreSQL

Heroku Heroku
$50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage
Microsoft Azure Azure
$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)

Managed Redis®*

Heroku Heroku
$200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Microsoft Azure Azure
$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)

Serverless 25M Executions

Heroku Heroku
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Heroku Heroku
2 TB / mo per app
Microsoft Azure Azure
100 GB / mo

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Heroku Heroku
Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Heroku Heroku
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Microsoft Azure Azure
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)Custom

Available Models

Azure offers 10 GPU models.

Heroku Heroku
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Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(16) A100(20) RTX PRO 6000(40) H200(2) V100(6) T4(16) MI300X(2) A10(12) GB200(2) MI455X(1)

Heads up: Prices are estimates from published rates for common setups and vary by region and usage; verify with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Heroku and Azure offer:

Service Heroku Azure
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Heroku Heroku
heroku.com
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters
Heroku Heroku
United States of America US flag
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America US flag
Founded
Heroku Heroku
2007
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Data Center Locations
Heroku Heroku
10
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Example Customers
Heroku Heroku
Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify
Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

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Our data for Heroku was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for Azure on Aug. 31, 2026.