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The Complete List of Heroku Alternatives to Consider

Zevi Reinitz on September 06, 2022

Why are people looking for Alternatives to Heroku? Wow. Heroku has had a rough few months. In May 2022, Heroku users reported receiving...
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Kostja Appliku.com

hey! thanks for including Appliku in this list.

I would like to mention that it is not just community support, but I personally help everyone who needs help deploying their apps as well as provide guidance building Django apps in general too!

So, don’t hesitate, join our Discord and I will be there for you, just like a lot of other developers and SaaS founders.

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fiiv

It’s also cool cause the other tools are mostly from funded VC firms and this guy is out here building it himself and it’s going great

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Victor

Good day sir thank you for your support please I'm currently working on admin dashboard and I'm in need of your help if you can share some source code_**_ with me

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Audrey Maldonado

Hi! I see that Render is listed as an alternative in the "Top Free Heroku Alternatives". I'm Render's Developer Community Manager and it seems like a good time to chime in with some extra context for those considering a move from Heroku to Render.

First, anyone interested in migrating from Heroku to Render should take a look at our documentation and blogs (Django-specific) and (Rails-specific) in support of that. I'd also like to highlight our latest blog post on updates to the heroku-import tool to make it as easy as possible!

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Prahlad Yeri

Interesting list! When I sorted the lesser known brands using global Alexa ranking, following came on top (for whatever it's worth):

fleek.co
render.com
railway.app
fly.io
platform.sh

This is important because it takes a lot of effort for even a student/hobby project to build and configure their app, have a testing and deployment strategy, etc. and if the platform suddenly pulls the plug (like Heroku did), they are left in the dark and on a limb. I know it's easy to pontificate that just fork the money and pay up for a regular server but all of us aren't so rich, especially the students and freelancers.

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Yasin

Another point for Appliku. Definitely one of the best services out there, because if you need help with anything, the creator himself helps you out. And with tools like Heroku Env Importer it makes moving away from Heroku really really easy.

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Buster Styren

Can't help but mention symbiosis.host (disclaimer: I'm part of the team). We are the by far cheapest option for managed Kubernetes. Many of our users use it together with the listed k8s app deployment frameworks for an affordable and low-ops infrastructure.

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Chris Aubuchon

You should 100% add Cycle to this list. We have lots of people coming over from Heroku. Also a lot of the tools you listed are not really replacements as much as tools or dev environments...

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Zevi Reinitz

Hi @aubuchcl ! Thanks for reaching out. Cycle looks interesting - I've added it to the list.

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For me the obvious winner is Appliku. Simple, stable, powerful with great customer support. What else do you need? Using it for a while already and have no issues. Never heard of other alternatives cause I simply don't need them 🤷‍♀️

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biagotaski

CTO.ai is also a good option for developers and startups who want to focus on the delivery and code without leaving operations behind. I'm part of the team, and we want to explore the Developer Control Plane, which is a new concept in the market that enable developers to deliver on their own without the DevOps team's interference on the operational side.
There's a comparison for those who are thinking on Heroku's alternatives.

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Zevi Reinitz

@biagotaski - looks interesting! thanks for pointing it out. I've added it to the list. Keep up the good work!

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Pen y Fan

For static websites I would recommend GitHub pages, which is free.

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Zevi Reinitz

@penyfan - thanks! you're right. We've added this to the list. Appreciate your input!

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Vivek K J

deta.sh is another heroku alternative which can be used for hosting simple nodejs, python backends for hobby projects using macros. deta has got a NoSQL database and a file storage service.

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Gianni Carafa

Hey there

This seems to be a very complete list. In april, during the major incident on Heroku, I have created my own alternative and published it as open source (no closed parts or services) . It is called Kubero. It runs as a Kubernetes Operator and has allmost the same featureset as Heroku.

github.com/kubero-dev/kubero

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Alexander Isora 🦄

We have been using Appliku for 2 years for far. It saved us thousands of cash and ton of time. The team gives an excellent support.

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oggo

surge.sh and pythonanywhere.com also have free layers.

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Soham

Glitch deserves to be on the list...

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Andrew Sanchez

Appliku is great and easy to get started with! It's especially nice to provision EC2.

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Tech Tim (@TechTim42)

I made a list regarding the self host PaaS options. :)

dev.to/timhub/self-host-heroku-alt...

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Andrew Baisden

Quite a few I did not know of thanks for putting this together.

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Zevi Reinitz

@andrewbaisden, I'm glad this was useful for you. Really appreciate your kind feedback.

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fosware

Thanks!! Very helpful!

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Raunaq Singh

Great list, I host my SaaS on AppLiku and I must say it’s a really powerful option. I get all the advantages that the AWS ecosystem has to offer with Heroku like simplicity.

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Steve_Val

You should add Supabase as a Heroku PostgreSQL alternative, it's free.

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Rabin Chakraborty

Which one is best for free user?