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As we all know, Heroku recently stopped providing free dynos and has few drawbacks like automatic sleep. It also has high pricing in some services as compared to other cloud platforms. To get rid of such problems we might need Heroku alternatives at some points.


Why do we need Heroku alternatives?

We made a customized list of best alternatives free & paid which will help you deploy your apps on right cloud platform. 

Let's have a look at list of all 10+ alternatives.

Cyclic

Cyclic is a cloud platform for which provides free cloud platform to host your apps full stack, backend or frontend with enough computing power. It provides 1024 mb of RAM, Database and File Storage.




Cyclic is a cloud platform for hosting full stack Node.js apps for free.

You can deploy 3 apps for free without any automatic sleep or hourly limits. It doesn't restrict number of build per day and has no hourly execution limit.



You can make 100k API requests per month per app for free. Get Started Now with 10$ of Credits which will unlock hidden power of Cyclic.

What's Included in Cyclic Free Plan

Digital Ocean Functions

Digital Ocean is one of the leading platform for deploying apps, services and much more. It is used by leading companies across the world and has very high uptime. We are using Digital Ocean since 2019 and have never faced any error so far. It offers bare metals, cloud computing, droplets or shared hosting for small apps, databases, storage spaces etc.

Digital Ocean offer functions for hosting serverless apps. It also offers services more than just serverless apps.

Digital Ocean doesn't not offer any free forever plan yet but provides a whooping $200 in credits which you can use to subscribe to any service of Digital Ocean. Credits expire after 60 days so make sure to use them before they expire. You can deploy multiple apps at once with same FREE Credits.

Get $200 Credits FREE for 60 Days. 

What services can we use with $200 Credits

Cloudways

Cloudways is a very famous cloud platform for hosting managed websites/ecommerce stores. Usually people host wordpress/php based cloud apps here but you can install node runtime manually using CLI. 

Cloudways is a Digital Ocean Brand for managed hosting. It provides managed cloud hosting.

Cloudways provide more than just hosting as addons. For Example : Transactional Email , Mailbox, DNS Manager, CDN etc. It has Let's Encrypt FREE SSL/TLS Certificate for instant SSL along with varnish caching. Easy management of apps is the main USP of this platform. Being a managed hosting , Cloudways has one of the best customer support for their customers.   

Features of Cloudways

Netlify

Netlify is one of the most commonly used platform to deploy node apps instantly with just few clicks. It offers free forever package along which has enough power to kickstart a node runtime apps within a few minutes. It has bandwidth of 100GB per month in Free Forever plan.

Netlify is a widely used cloud hosting platform with inbuilt CI/CD Capabilities.

Netlify supports a lot of frameworks out of the box. Netlify is recommended by a lot of developers because of it being easy to use and comes bundled with bunch of features.

What's Included in Free Plan

Vercel

Vercel is my top choice for hosting my node runtime apps, be it frontend or backend apps or maybe full stack apps. I like vercel because of features packed in free/hobby plan. Vercel apps are super fast and provides a very low latency. 

Vercel is my favorite platform of all the options in the list.

Vercel can be best substitute for Heroku because it allows running backend and frontend on same platform.
You can deploy your app easily on vercel within few clicks and It's recommend for NextJS / React JS Apps. If you are making a NextJS app then I must recommend Vercel for your app.
Vercel Serverless Functions can be deployed in multiple languages:

Node.js
Go
Python
Ruby.

Vercel supports all modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, NextJS, Svelte, Gatsby.js,
 Remix,
 Blitz.js (Legacy),
 Astro,
 Hexo,
 Eleventy,
 Docusaurus 2,
 Docusaurus 1,
 Preact,
 SolidStart,
 Dojo,
 Ember.js and a lot more

Railway

Railway as the name says itself, Railway apps are fast and scalable. It includes CI/CD Pipeline by default. You can easily deploy your GitHub Projects with a single click. It has a very simple UI where you can start your project without any complications.

Railway 

Railway.app supports frameworks and their boilerplate templates out of the box along with automatic preset of Databases such as Redis, MongoGB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and a lot more..


Boilerplates & Presets available out of the box

Render

Render is also a cloud platform to host your website , node app, backend app, Redis DB, PostGRES and static website. It provides same limitations as of Heroku. It provides 750 Hours of running time per month and has automatic sleep to save running hours from getting wasted. It can be bypassed by any ping service which invokes API every 15 minutes before the instance sleeps. 

Best Heroku Alternatives you need to know in 2023(FREE & PAID)

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