Heroku vs Oracle Cloud

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

What's good about...

Heroku

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

Oracle Cloud

Great price-performance ratio
Wide range of server configurations and managed services
Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
10 TB of free egress per month

Price comparison

How do Heroku's prices compare against Oracle Cloud?

Example configuration	Heroku	Oracle Cloud
VM Small	$50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)	$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
VM Medium	$250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)	$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
VM Large	$500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)	$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)
Block Storage	--	$4.25 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$25.57 / mo
Load Balancer	Included in plan	$7.86 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage	$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)
Managed Redis®*	$200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM	$27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM
Free egress allowance	2 TB / mo per app	10 TB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo)	$8.50 $0.0085 / GB

Oracle Cloud offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
BM.GPU.MI300X.8	8x MI300X	1536GB	56	2000GB	$6.00	Source

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 Heroku and Oracle Cloud offer:

Service	Heroku	Oracle Cloud
Block Storage	--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	--
Container Registry	--
GPU-powered Servers	--
Load Balancer	--
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes	--
Managed MySQL	--
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage	--
Serverless Cron Jobs	--
Serverless Functions	--
Static Sites	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)	--

Company details

	Heroku	Oracle Cloud
Website	heroku.com	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007	2016
Data Center Locations	10	39
Example Customers	Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

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

	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016
Data Center Locations	39
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia