Cheapest Heroku alternatives

Replacing Heroku with something that deploys from git and costs less.

List prices checked

How this is scored

Application platforms ranked on entry plan plus 500 GB of transfer. Heroku itself is included as the baseline — the point of the table is what you save and what you give up, not a claim that everything below it is better.

All 8, ranked for this workload

#ServiceProviderCost for this workloadNotes
1HerokuHeroku$5.00/mo with 500 GBNone; the free dyno tier ended in November 2022
2NetlifyNetlify$9.00/mo with 500 GBFree plan with a 300 credit monthly limit
3DigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean$13/mo with 500 GBThree free static sites
4Fly.ioFly.io$13/mo with 500 GB—
5VercelVercel$20/mo with 500 GBHobby plan with 100 GB of transfer per month
6KoyebKoyeb$21/mo with 500 GBOne free instance with limited resources
7RailwayRailway$30/mo with 500 GB$5 of usage included on the Hobby plan
8RenderRender$67/mo with 500 GBFree static sites and 750 instance hours per month

Published list prices only. Rows that do not publish a rate for an axis this workload depends on are excluded rather than shown as cheap.

Questions

Cheapest Heroku alternatives in 2026?
Heroku from Heroku — $5.00/mo with 500 GB. Netlify is second at $9.00/mo with 500 GB. This ranking is specific to the workload described above; a different usage shape reorders it.
How is this ranking weighted?
Application platforms ranked on entry plan plus 500 GB of transfer. Heroku itself is included as the baseline — the point of the table is what you save and what you give up, not a claim that everything below it is better.
Why does this differ from the general cheapest list?
Because a single price axis never describes a real workload. Ranking by headline rate answers "who is cheapest per unit"; this page answers "who is cheapest for this job", and the two orders are often very different — which is the whole reason it exists as a separate table.
What is not accounted for?
Committed-use discounts, regional price variation, per-request charges, support plans, and minimum retention. These are published list prices applied to one stated workload — a shortlist to price properly with the vendor, not a quotation.

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