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
OVHcloud
Website www.ovhcloud.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 12
Example Customers Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys

Cost Comparison

How do Heroku's prices compare against OVHcloud?

Example configuration Heroku OVHcloud
VM Small $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X) $36.58 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (b3-8)
VM Medium $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M) $73.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (b3-16)
VM Large $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L) $130.54 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (c3-16)
Block Storage -- $9.50 / mo 100 GB (3000 IOPS)
Object Storage -- $10.75 / mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB read
Load Balancer Included in plan $45.58 / mo Large 2 Gbps
Managed PostgreSQL $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage $51.26 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Essential DB1-4)
Managed Redis®* $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM $44.57 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Essential DB1-4)
Free egress allowance 2 TB / mo per app --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Not publicly listed Free and unlimited

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 OVHcloud offer:

Service Heroku OVHcloud
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 --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

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Our data for Heroku was last updated on March 28, 2024, and for OVHcloud on Feb. 13, 2024.