Alternatives to Heroku Free Tier
The free dynos a generation learned on
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The free dynos a generation learned on. Heroku Free Tier has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.
Hobbyists, students, and developers prototyping small side projects or demos who needed to deploy an app without paying for hosting.
A free tier of Heroku's platform-as-a-service offering up to 1,000 free dyno hours per month, shared across an account's free apps. It included a free Postgres database (up to 10,000 rows) and a free Redis instance at similarly limited scale. Free dynos had no custom domain SSL and were not suited for production workloads.
Free web dynos went to sleep after 30 minutes without incoming traffic and woke up on the next request, introducing a delay for the first visitor. This tier was discontinued in November 2022 when Heroku eliminated its free product plans entirely.
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Clever Cloud is a Paris-based platform-as-a-service that auto-scales applications across multiple languages/runtimes and bundles managed databases (Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis) with add-ons and EU.
Koyeb lets developers deploy Git- or Docker-based services onto autoscaling microVMs with managed Postgres and multi-region placement.
Northflank is a managed application platform built on Kubernetes that deploys to your own AWS/GCP/Azure/Oracle account (BYOC) or its own cloud.
Porter runs a managed Kubernetes control plane inside the customer's own cloud account, giving Heroku-style git-push deploys, autoscaling, managed add-ons, and infrastructure customization once teams.
Qovery provisions and manages Kubernetes clusters inside a customer's own cloud account and layers a simplified deploy workflow, preview environments, and managed databases on top, targeting teams tha.
Scalingo is a France-based PaaS founded in 2013 that offers Heroku-style git-push deployment, autoscaling, managed databases, and add-ons, targeting European teams that need GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted.
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Yes. Koyeb and Render have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
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