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
Scaleway
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

Cost Comparison

How do Heroku's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration Heroku Scaleway
VM Small $50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X) $10.87 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M) $42.38 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L) $172.77 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage -- $10.32 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage -- $15.76 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer Included in plan $12.52 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL $50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage $34.77 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM $38.03 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions -- $28.52 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 2 TB / mo per app --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Not publicly listed Free for most services

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 Scaleway offer:

Service Heroku Scaleway
Block Storage --
Container Registry --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage --
Serverless Functions --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

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Our data for Heroku was last updated on March 28, 2024, and for Scaleway on Feb. 10, 2024.