Compare cloud hosting prices / Heroku
Heroku pricing, explained
Fixed dyno tiers sized by RAM — jumps in large steps once you outgrow the mid tiers.
Performance-M
$250/mo2.5 GB RAM, 12x compute units
Performance-L
$500/mo14 GB RAM, 50x compute units
Performance-XL
$750/mo62 GB RAM, 50x compute units
What would Heroku actually cost you?
Pick your startup type to estimate a real production workload.
~5,000 active seats · assumed workload: 8 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 2 TB bandwidth
Heroku
$750/mo
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save $530$220/mo
Note: matched by RAM — Heroku doesn't sell raw vCPU, dynos are compute-unit based
Estimate for a real production workload at the assumed scale, from Heroku's published pricing. Last verified: August 2026.
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