Heroku vs Paperspace

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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

Paperspace

Competitive GPU prices
Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
Free ingress and egress

Price comparison

How do Heroku's prices compare against Paperspace?

Example configuration	Heroku	Paperspace
VM Small	$50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)	--
VM Medium	$250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)	--
VM Large	$500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)	--
Load Balancer	Included in plan	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage	--
Managed Redis®*	$200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM	--
Free egress allowance	2 TB / mo per app	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo)	Free and unlimited Burst up to 10 Gbps, then soft capped at 900 Mbps

Paperspace offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GPU+ (M4000)	1x M4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.45	Source
P4000	1x P4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.51	Source
RTX4000	1x RTX 4000	24GB	8	30GB	$0.56	Source
P5000	1x P5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.78	Source
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	8	45GB	$0.80	Launch
RTX5000	1x RTX 5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.82	Source
P6000	1x P6000	24GB	8	30GB	$1.10	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	8	45GB	$1.42	Launch
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	45GB	$1.93	Launch
V100-32G	1x V100	32GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
V100	1x V100	16GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
A100	1x A100	40GB	8	90GB	$3.19	Launch
A100-80G	1x A100	80GB	8	90GB	$3.28	Launch
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	268GB	$5.99	Launch

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 Paperspace offer:

Service	Heroku	Paperspace
GPU-powered Servers	--
Managed Containers		--
Managed PostgreSQL		--
Managed Redis®*		--

Company details

	Heroku	Paperspace
Website	heroku.com	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007	2014
Data Center Locations	10	3
Example Customers	Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando

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

	Paperspace
Website	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	3
Example Customers	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando