Heroku vs Sevalla

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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

Sevalla

Supports auto-deploy on git push, Docker image deployments, autoscaling, background workers, hibernation and more
Fully managed platform: containers, databases, caches, and static sites
Available in 25 locations and 260+ PoP (partnership with GCP and Cloudflare)
No seat based pricing, only usage based

Price comparison

How do Heroku's prices compare against Sevalla?

Example configuration	Heroku	Sevalla
VM Small	$50.00 / mo Dyno 1 GB RAM (Standard 2X)	$18.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM (CPU optimized C1)
VM Medium	$250.00 / mo Dyno 2.5 GB RAM (Performance M)	$160.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM (Standard S4)
VM Large	$500.00 / mo Dyno 14 GB RAM (Performance L)	$320.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16GB RAM (Standard S5)
Block Storage	--	$30.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$20.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	Included in plan	Included with apps
Managed PostgreSQL	$50.00 / mo 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage	$145.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 8GB RAM (Database 4)
Managed Redis®*	$200.00 / mo 1 GB RAM	$34.00 / mo 2GB RAM (Database 2)
Free egress allowance	2 TB / mo per app	100 GB (static sites)
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Not publicly listed Bandwidth is soft limited per app (2 TB / mo)	$100.00 $0.1 / GB

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 Sevalla offer:

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

Company details

	Heroku	Sevalla
Website	heroku.com	sevalla.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2007	2024
Data Center Locations	10	25
Example Customers	Airbase, Dovetail, Hotel Engine, ClickMechanic, Ambassify	Smart11, Imaginary Space, Talentblocks, ClearEstate

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

	Sevalla
Website	sevalla.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2024
Data Center Locations	25
Example Customers	Smart11, Imaginary Space, Talentblocks, ClearEstate