Dynos are smart, lightweight containers built for modern languages and developer productivity
Pay only for what you use, prorated to the second. You pay only for the time your dyno is running as a fraction of the month. E.g. in a 30 day month running a dyno for 1 day will cost you 1/30th of the list price. Change dyno types at any time. Detailed Comparison.
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Free
Ideal for experimenting with cloud applications in a limited sandbox.
- Core platform features Multiple deployment methods, automated patching, unified logs, buildpacks, routing, dyno management
- Sleeps after 30 mins of inactivity
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Uses an account-based pool
of free dyno hours Verified accounts come with a monthly pool of 1000 Free dyno hours; unverified accounts receive 550. When a Free dyno is active, it draws from the pool; your free apps can run as long as there are dyno hours left in your monthly pool. - Custom domains Wildcard, subdomain, and root domains
512 MB RAM │ 1 web/1 worker
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Hobby
Perfect for small scale personal projects and hobby apps.
- Core platform features Multiple deployment methods, automated patching, unified logs, buildpacks, routing, dyno management
- Never sleeps
- Free SSL & Automated Certificate Management for custom domains SSL/TLS termination and certificates included at no additional charge for your application’s custom domains.
- Application Metrics
- Multiple workers for more powerful apps
512 MB RAM │ 10 Process Types
$7 per dyno/month prorated to the second You pay only for the time your dyno is running as a fraction of the month. E.g. in a 30 day month running a dyno for 1 day will cost you 1/30th of the list price. -
Professional
Standard
- 1X
- 2X
Enhanced visibility, performance, and availability for powering your professional applications.
- All Hobby Features + All Free and Hobby dyno features are included in Standard 1x and 2x dynos.
- Simple horizontal scalability
- Threshold alerts Set alerts for response time and error rate. Add additional emails and adjust threshold alert sensitivity for notifications.
- Preboot Preboot ensures that the new web dynos are started (and receive traffic) before the existing ones are terminated, contributing to zero downtime deploys.
- 512MB or 1GB RAM
Performance
- M
- L
Superior performance when it's most critical for your super scale, high traffic apps.
- All Standard Features + All Free, Hobby, and Standard dyno features are included in Performance M and L dynos.
- Mix with Standard 1x, 2x dynos
- Dedicated
- Autoscaling Autoscaling scales your web dynos out if the max of the 95th percentile of web response times exceeds a threshold you specify.
- 2.5GB or 14GB RAM
∞ Process Types
$25 - $500 per dyno/month prorated to the second You pay only for the time your dyno is running as a fraction of the month. E.g. in a 30 day month running a dyno for 1 day will cost you 1/30th of the list price.
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To start using a Professional plan, first sign up, then select the plan inside the Heroku Dashboard.
To start using a Hobby plan, first sign up, then select the plan inside the Heroku Dashboard.
Free$0 |
Hobby$7/dyno per month |
Standard 1x$25/dyno per month |
Standard 2x$50/dyno per monthProfessional |
Performance M$250/dyno per month |
Performance L$500/dyno per month |
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| What is it good for? | Ideal for experimenting with cloud applications in a limited sandbox. | Perfect for small scale personal projects and hobby apps. | Enhanced visibility, performance, and availability for powering your production applications. | Superior performance when it's most critical for your super scale, high traffic apps. | ||
| Pricing | $0 | $7/dyno per month | $25/dyno per month | $50/dyno per month | $225/dyno per month | $500/dyno per month |
| Deploy from Git | ||||||
| Automated patching | ||||||
| Self healing apps | ||||||
| Unified logs | ||||||
| Number of process types | 2 | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Always on | Sleeps after 30 mins of inactivity, otherwise always on depending on your remaining monthly free dyno hours. | |||||
| Custom domains | ||||||
| Free SSL on custom domains | ||||||
| Automated Certificate Management on custom domains | ||||||
| "Slide to scale" out | ||||||
| Preboot | ||||||
| Application Metrics | Past 24 hours, with 10 minute resolution |
2 hours at 1 minute resolution, 24 hours at 10 minute resolution, 3 days with 1 hour resolution, 7 days at 2 hours resolution |
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| Threshold Alerting | ||||||
| Autoscaling | ||||||
| Mix and match | Mix with 2x and Performance M/L | Mix with 1x and Performance M/L | Mix with Standard 1x/2x and Performance L dynos | Mix with Standard 1x/2x and Performance M dynos | ||
| RAM | 512MB | 512MB | 512MB | 1GB | 2.5GB | 14GB |
| Dedicated | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Collaborate and build great apps together
Collaborators |
Allow other users shared access to apps you own on your personal account. |
FREE |
Heroku Teams |
Collaborate on multiple projects, manage team members and resources, get app-level control over permissions, and keep it all on one bill for greater visibility. |
FREE 1-5 team members $10 per month 6-25 team members |
Shared Collaborators |
Heroku Teams |
Heroku Enterprise |
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| What is it good for? | Peer-to-peer collaboration with other users on personal apps you own. | Meeting the collaboration and control needs of growing teams across multiple projects. | Meeting the additional governance, compliance, controls and authentication requirements of larger teams and organizations. |
| Shared access to apps | |||
| Role based permissions | |||
| Delegated admins | |||
| Team members | Up to 25 | Unlimited | |
| App level permissions | |||
| Customizable permissions | |||
| Centralized billing | Via monthly credit card billing, only account owner can update billing details | Via monthly credit card billing, any team admin can update billing detail | Via periodic invoices as part of contract |
| Resource utilization across multiple apps | Resource usage updated nightly | Resource usage updated nightly | Up-to-date resource utilization report |
| Access to Heroku Private Spaces | |||
| Network isolation, private networks | With Private Spaces | ||
| DNS Service Discovery | With Private Spaces | ||
| Inbound/outbound traffic control | With Private Spaces | ||
| Private data services on private networks | With Private Spaces | ||
| Provision apps in a choice of 5 global regions | With Private Spaces | ||
| Access to Heroku Shield Private Spaces | |||
| Ability to run HIPAA compliant apps | With Heroku Shield Private Spaces & BAA | ||
| SSO | Support for 3rd party IdPs like Salesforce Identity, Ping One, Ping Federate and Okta, via SSO for Heroku | ||
| Add-on Controls whitelisting | |||
| Access to Heroku Connect | |||
| Premium Support | Included | ||
| Customer Solutions Architect | Included | ||
| Enterprise app packages | |||
| Custom terms |
Continuous Delivery and CI that’s visual and easy to setup and use
Heroku Pipelines |
Continuously deliver apps from dev to staging and production using a visual, structured workflow. |
FREE |
Heroku CI |
Run unlimited tests with zero queue time using a low setup, visual test runner that’s integrated with Heroku Pipelines. Pay only for what you use, prorated to the second. |
$10 per month* *Tests run by default on Performance-M dynos, charged only for the actual duration of the test run, prorated to the second. These costs are in addition to the $10/month per pipeline for Heroku CI. Per Heroku Pipeline |
Looking for a higher level of control over applications and teams across your organization?
Heroku Enterprise gives you access to Heroku Private Spaces, Heroku Connect, SSO, Organization Accounts, Custom Terms, Annual Agreements, and Enterprise App Package Pricing. It also includes Customer Solutions Architects and Premium Support.
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Heroku Postgres is a fully managed, reliable database-as-a-service and powerful suite of tools.
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Hobby
- Dataclips
- Row limited
$0 — $9 prorated to the second You pay only for the time your database is provisioned as a fraction of the month. E.g. in a 30 day month having it provisioned for 2 days will cost you 1/15th of the list price. -
Standard
- Continuous Protection
- Performance Analytics
- Fork / Follow
- 4 days rollback
- Max 1 hour downtime / month
$50 — $3,500 prorated to the second You pay only for the time your database is provisioned as a fraction of the month. E.g. in a 30 day month having it provisioned for 2 days will cost you 1/15th of the list price.
Build more flexible data driven apps with Heroku Redis
Heroku Redis is a managed key-value store as a service with a robust set of developer experience features.
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Hobby
- PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS
- ACCESS VIA HEROKU CLI
- REDIS LOG METRICS
- FEDERATION WITH POSTGRES FOR SQL QUERY ACCESS
- 25 MB RAM, 20 CONNECTIONS
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Premium
- ALL HOBBY FEATURES +
- HIGH AVAILABILITY WITH LOW-LATENCY FAILOVER
- RESOURCE SCALABILITY
$15 — $1,450 prorated to the second You pay only for the time your Redis instance is provisioned as a fraction of the month. E.g. in a 30 day month having it provisioned for 2 days will cost you 1/15th of the list price.
Manage high-volume event streams with Apache Kafka on Heroku
Apache Kafka on Heroku is a durable, distributed messaging service for streaming events, optimized for developers.
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Basic
Multi-tenant Kafka for development, testing, and low volume production event streams.
- Shared Clusters
- 4GB - 64GB Capacity
- 7 Days Max Retention
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Standard
Dedicated Kafka for high-volume event streams.
- Dedicated Clusters
- 150GB - 900GB Capacity
- 2 weeks Max Retention
- 3 Kafka Brokers
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Extended
Dedicated Kafka for massive event streams.
- Dedicated Clusters
- 400GB - 2400GB Capacity
- 6 weeks Max Retention
- 8 Kafka Brokers
Extend your app with Add-ons
Add-ons are Heroku Elements that add powerful tools and services to your app.
Choose from popular providers for performance monitoring, logging, caching and more:
Monitoring
Get started with free dev plans from providers like New Relic and Librato, then upgrade to paid plans starting at $19/month.
Logging
Troubleshoot your app with free and paid plans from Papertrail, Logentries and more starting at $7/month.
Caching
Improve performance by caching regularly accessed data using popular services like MemCachier starting at $15/month.
And many more
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Support is available to all Heroku users, but premium support can guarantee a response for your most critical apps when you need it most, 24×7×365. A Customer Solutions Architect can help you get the most out of your app with expert 1-on-1 Pro Modules.
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Standard Support
- Business Hour Support1
- 1+ Day Response Times
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Architecture Pro Modules
- App Scaling & Large Traffic Prep
- Best Practice Solutions
- Support business hours are 6AM to 6PM PDT.
- Greater of $1,000 or 20% of total monthly usage. Minimum 3 month commitment.
Heroku Pro Modules
Our customer solution architects will guide your team with best practice app architectures, battle-tested
in the field by successfully scaling thousands of Heroku applications. Select from 3 Modules:
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App Assessment
A Heroku Architect looks under the hood providing a report of results and recommendations to optimize your app.
- Deep dive into application logs and metrics
- Review of dyno formation and add-ons
$1,500 per module Request module -
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Expert advice about how a specific solution would best be achieved on Heroku.
- Heroku architect will research your goal and propose a solution
- Vetted by internal experts and product teams
- Report delivered with solution recommendations
$1,500 per module Request module -
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Verify your production environment will handle a production sized load.
- Heroku architect helps you devise a load test plan
- Includes post load test analysis and recommendations report
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