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Top Heroku Alternatives for free

Meshv Patel on August 31, 2022

Recently Heroku will shutdown free Heroku Dynos, free Heroku Postgres, and free Heroku Data for Redis after November 28th, 2022. So, af...
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Sokhavuth TIN • Edited

Deta is the best choice if you want everything for free forever and unlimited space for database and applications. I think Deta is sponsored by the German government.

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Filip Ilić

What's their end goal? How do they earn money? I get something like firebase. But this is like, sponsored by German gov because they just want devs to be happy and productive. Maybe capitalism created this trust isues in me, but I need to know what do they get from this😃

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Sokhavuth TIN • Edited

I think maybe the EU wants to compete with the US by expanding their influence around the world. And the Internet is an option for this reason. However, here is Deta 's answer to the question how they make money:

How are you going to make money?
We're working on a big, parallel product that we will be announcing soon. This product will be responsible for generating revenue. Stay tuned!

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Marco Colli

Cuber is also an alternative to Heroku.

You define a Cuberfile with about ~10 lines of code that describe your application, then you type cuber deploy in your terminal to deploy your app on Kubernetes on any cloud provider.

Cuber is free and open source and Kubernetes is usually much cheaper than a PaaS like Heroku. Also if you use Cuber you don't have to deal with all the complexity of Kubernetes.

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Meshv Patel

Thanks, I will add this in my list. 🤗⭐

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Phyo Arkar Lwin

wow thats acutally kind of kubernets i am looking. , let me check

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Paul McClean • Edited

Be extremely careful when signing up for the "free" tier of any of these services, particularly ones that require a credit card (most of them). Use a disposable, one-time card if you can.

Not mentioning any names, but I've experienced firsthand some extremely shady practices that have ended up with with me receiving unexpected billing for services I never used.

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Nathaniel

Wow thanks, what services do you know that offers disposable one time card?

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Paul McClean

Revolut

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Nathaniel

Thank you, is it available outside the UK ?

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Damian

Yep, it is.

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Paul McClean

Additionally, having tried a good few of these in the past, I can highly recommend both Netlify and Vercel. I'm also currently playing with Deta and it is super cool. Great user experience.

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Michael Otu

It says when one door closes another opens. I just learnt there were a lot of alternatives to heroku. Could heroku have had a better approach to this without taking away free-tier? I think instead of the free-tier, maybe users could have a limited free usage. Maybe 550MB storage free and when you exceed that you'd pay the extra.

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revoltez

i think they could have made the free tier only available using a credit card like aws or azure or gcp do and still maintain their fans

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Jackson Kasi • Edited

thank for share with us 😊 now I got to know some new! ( dev utile )

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Al Chen

Which one has the ability to push via command line as simple as Heroku's git push heroku master?

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Meshv Patel

Well, I let you know.

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@albertc44 Render has kind of that, but maybe simpler. You put a render.yaml in your project root. It describes what services you want at render (i.e. postgresql) and how to configure it.

Then connect your project on GitHub to your render account. When you do git push to GitHub it automatically deploys to render (if you want to).

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Chris

fly.io with the

fly deploy

command

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Alexandre Gonzales

qoddi.com is an alternative to Heroku and compatible with Heroku buildpacks.

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Swapnil M Mane • Edited

Thank you Meshv for compiling this list, indeed a great one. 🚀
I would also like to mention Webiny as an alternative - it will also allow users to Embrace Serverless.
For a little over two years, we have been building Webiny. It's a Headless CMS you can use for your personal blog ... but it's not only a Headless CMS: it's a fully-featured application framework that you can use to scaffold unique applications that will have access to the existing setup we have built via plugins. More details on leveraging the power of serverless can be found here.

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Paul / Appurist

Glad to see Netlify, CloudFlare, Deta and Render in this list; all very interesting hosting options for different purposes. I'm especially interested in seeing where Deta ends up in another year or two.

But one of the most complete for multiple purposes is missing, and that is Supabase:

  • very complete users/authentication (much simpler than Auth0)
  • very easy to use Postgres database with row-level security so you may not even need a back-end server at all
  • storage for files (S3-compatible)
  • serverless edge functions
  • generous free tier
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Chris Aubuchon

You should 100% add Cycle to this list - it has a much higher ceiling than heroku, railway, rendr, etc... but maintains approachability for developers that are keen to stay focused on code.

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Krypton

Nice list, I never knew there were actually that many 😆
I'd also add that Vercel is a nice, also pretty similar to Netlify.

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Abdulhafiz

Add Fleek to the list. It's as simple as deploying on netlify but supports web3 so your page can be stored forever on IPFS (even if your domain name expires) without the need to deal with the complexities of web3 development.

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Yusuf Adeyemo

Koyeb is a very good alternative I found lately.

Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, or infrastructure management.

I wrote an article on how to migrate from Heroku to Koyeb here

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Andy Delso

What about Vercel?

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Thabo

Caprover

like Doku, but more easier
caprover.com

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Andrew Baisden

Its good to know that there are so many alternatives to Heroku its going to limit the damage of having it go behind a paywall 😂

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Luca Argentieri

Is possible to host a Strapi project on Netlify?

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Meshv Patel

This link would be helpful..

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Luca Argentieri

Heroku... Heroku everywhere.
And Strapi + Digital Ocean link is not available.
Time to pay I guess. lol

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Arjun

Patr can also be a great option. It provides features like Deployments, Static Sites, Databases, CI/CD, Managing Domains, URLs, Secrets on the free plan.

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Ade Guntoro

which one is support laravel ? just like "simple-heroku".

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Meshv Patel

Hey, I have already told in this. Railway is providing laravel support. So just check it out....

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Mark Codes the Web

Try Railway. It can handle anything and has decent free terms. You only pay if you exceed your limits and even then it’s very cheap compared to other types of hosting. Really good database support too.

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Amit Wani

Northflank is also very powerful, but it isn't free completely.

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Dendi Handian

Thank you for the list

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Tech Tim (@TechTim42)

regarding the self host PaaS alternative, I made an article

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

It is focusing on PaaS and self host

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Okoro chimezie bright

That Railway make sense,i will try it out thanks👍👍👍

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Efosa Collins EVBOWE

I'm guessing Cyclic will be my next go to

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Thanks for your list..

I need something that runs my JVM, a Postgres instance and maybe later reddis

render.com/ seems the right choice?

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joset98

ohh thanks for this post

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Vikas Maur

Wow. Awesome post 🤯
Thanks

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OLUKINNI

Thank you for that...really needs it at this time

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Andrew Baisden

Great list!

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Meshv Patel

Thanks 😊

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Wulfi

Railway cool

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Shubham

Thanks ! @meshvpatel18

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pbl.gllgs

thanks for sharing this

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Luiz Cezer

Thanks for the list, just giving my 2 cents: for Elixir developers we have gigalixir.com/ good to prototype and test small apps with no cost.

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Jozef Behr

Thanks mate for sharing these option , this list contains good option....

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Tomzur 🚀✌️ • Edited

Kinsta is also an alternative, however not free as the ones mentioned in the list but it comes with $20 credit you can use to try the service risk free..

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Sahil Kashyap (He/Him)

damn ! this was much needed !

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Jan Küster

Meteor Galaxy also offers a free tier incl. light Mongo. If you intend to make an app with pub/sub, mongo, reactivity etc. this is a considerable offer.l

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Raymond Wangsa Putra

Nice nice nice

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Wilmela

Thanks

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official_dulin

People can practice how to migrate their projects and get familiar with the new services, which is good.

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Meshv Patel

Hey 👋 all, just share this with your friends so that they can get to know about this...
Thanks 👍.

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Markes Salles

Nice!

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mahreenkokar • Edited

Thanks for sharing really appreciated I really love it the whole content inside my webpage

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Adrien

Hi,
I have 15 free PostgreSQL add-ons available.
This is still an add-on so it appears on Heroku and you can use a dump to copy your data :)
Drop me a PM if you want one ;)

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Sakar

Hi, I want the PostgreSQL add-ons. can you give me.

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Adrien

Hi Sakar,
Sure!
I just need your Heroku email to send you the invitation :)

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Sakar

Hi Adrien,
This my email id:

sakar@easy-cloud.in

Thankyou

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Adrien

I've just sent an invitation and an email with explainations :)

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Himanshu Kumar

i want them

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Adrien

Hi,
Send me (in private) your Heroku email and I'll send you the invitation :)

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Luke Cartwright

Here is a helpful resource I was shared recently:
Provides suggestions for a variety of Web dev services that have great free tiers.

GitHub logo ripienaar / free-for-dev

A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

free-for.dev

Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed decisions.

This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.

The scope of this particular list is limited to things that infrastructure developers (System Administrator, DevOps Practitioners, etc.) are likely to find useful. We love all the free services out there, but it would be good to keep it on topic. It's a bit of a grey line at times so this is a bit opinionated; do not be offended if I do not accept your contribution.

This list is the result of Pull Requests, reviews, ideas and work done by 1100+ people. You too can help by sending Pull Requests to add more services or by remove ones whose offerings have…

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Meshv Patel

Yea, I have visited this link. But I thought it it quite big list So If I am going to add this then my list probably too large..

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Revenity

What about Clever Cloud API?

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Radu-Alexandru B

What is the best one for Docker containers?

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Meshv Patel

Fly .io can support docker images and one more is dokku.com/ But I think is not free... You can check it out and let me know.

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Efosa Collins EVBOWE

I just joined Cyclic and I got a free $10 credit. It's awesome. Try it @Cyclic

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Lucas León

Check out Acorn

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Full of Dev

Nice list! will add some of the list to here as well
freestuff.dev/alternative/heroku/

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