Heroku Platform Pricing

“Incredibly straightforward deployment processes with best-in-class documentation and getting started tutorials Great reporting and analytics Transparent pricing lets you get really good estimates on... … It's a great service and we are happy to pay the extra cost for the value-adds Heroku provides.”

“Opensource (with extensive documentation) Innovative (cutting-edge web technologies, latest versions of programming languages, tools, services, integrations) Focused on speed and scalability Free... … Another question is deployment cost and pricing model; in specific cases after price comparison Heroku is often selected among other cloud providers / platforms mostly by being developer-friendly...”

“The price will be affordable and it will totally pay the price of having all the tooling they provide. … The price is not so affordable when you start growing.”

“Although the price point is slightly higher, the time and effort saved is well worth the money.”

“Because of Heroku's fractional and low pricing, it's easy to start up on Heroku and scale up over time without incurring a huge up-front fixed cost.
At the other end, I'd imagine that larger... … Beyond that, we also see a lot of value in a dedicated DevOps team handling issues like patching vulnerabilities, and handling underlying hardware failures – all of which would be prohibitively...”

“Large price jumps between certain resource tiers (2x Dyno for $50 per month versus Performance Dyno for $250). … Sure, Heroku might cost 2x more than AWS (after all, they themselves are built on AWS), but if your fixed cost in developer time is also 2X, then as a startup you'll come out way ahead using...”

“It's necessary to assess scale and decide whether the reduced complexity is worth the cost. … Not recommended for extremely high-scale apps due to the cost, or if an app has non-standard setup, dependencies, or configuration.”

“We are able to launch applications fairly quickly without too much hassle on the DevOps side The free tier made us able to create an initial POF application to showcase without paying for server... … Integration with Papertrail for logging purposes Scaling with Heroku Platform dynos make it very easy to upgrade/downgrade server Free tier to launch POF or testing platform.”

“Not all plug-ins are free; the monthly cost can easily creep up.”

“It can get pretty expensive if you also take the actual infrastructure into the cost calculation.”

“It is perfect for the custom development of small applications, services, and websites where there is a limited budget or cost forecast. … For small and simple applications, it is possible to get it free of cost.”