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
Render
Website render.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2018
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt

Cost Comparison

How do Heroku's prices compare against Render?

Example configuration Heroku Render
VM Small $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X) $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Medium $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M) $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service)
VM Large $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L) $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service)
Block Storage -- $25.00 / mo 100 GB
Load Balancer Included in plan Included in plan
Managed PostgreSQL $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance 2 TB / mo per app 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Not publicly listed $300.00

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 Render offer:

Service Heroku Render
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
Managed Containers
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Static Sites --

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Our data for Heroku was last updated on March 28, 2024, and for Render on Feb. 29, 2024.