Heroku pricing

The platform that defined the category, now priced well above alternatives that offer the same workflow. Chosen today mostly for inertia and add-on ecosystem rather than for economics.

List prices checked

By Heroku · Application platforms

Rate card

What Heroku charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Entry plan$5.00/moCheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Free tierYesNone; the free dyno tier ended in November 2022

Source: Heroku pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Heroku billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

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Heroku does not publish a rate for egress on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

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Heroku does not publish a rate for egress on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

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Heroku does not publish a rate for egress on this service, so a total would be misleading.

Heroku vs the alternatives

The closest application platforms on price, with the difference on application platforms's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs HerokuCompare
Railway$5.00—Head to head
DigitalOcean App Platform$5.00—Head to head
Koyeb$6.401.3× dearerHead to head
Fly.io$3.191.6× cheaperHead to head
Render$7.001.4× dearerHead to head
Netlify$9.001.8× dearerHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Heroku cost in 2026?
Heroku charges $5.00 per month for the entry plan, per Heroku's published pricing page. There is also a free tier: None; the free dyno tier ended in November 2022. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Heroku have a free tier?
Yes — None; the free dyno tier ended in November 2022. Check whether it is permanent or a trial before you build a budget around it; the two are often presented identically.
Are these Heroku prices current?
They were checked against Heroku's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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