5 Free Heroku Alternatives with Free Plan for Developers

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Heroku

Agile deployment platform for Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java, Python, and Scala. Setup takes only minutes and deploys are instant through git. Leave tedious server maintenance to Heroku and focus on your code.

Koyeb is a decent alternative to Heroku that you can consider for hosting or deploying your web apps and APIs. It has all the features of Heroku that you will need for your projects. So far, I have not encountered an importer tool for migrating Heroku deployments but I am sure doing that manually will not be that hard. Just like Heroku it offers you an intuitive web UI as well as CLI to push code to the cloud in seconds.

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Fly.io

Edge computing is the new frontier.

Fly.io is one the best free alternatives to Heroku that you can use. It’s designed for developers and students to run small applications for free and scale costs affordably as you grow. Just like Heroku it comes with CLI applications and there are other tools in it that you can use to easily deploy your apps. For advanced users, it has premium plans but for now, due to its free tier, you can use it in place of Heroku

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Northflank

The comprehensive developer platform to build and scale microservices, jobs and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI.

Northflank is another cloud-based PaaS solution that you can consider after leaving Heroku. It’s not just a platform for deploying your apps but you can use it as a CI/CD pipeline for your software projects. This is a gem of a tool for developers to build jobs & scale microservices, deploy managed databases using a powerful UI, API & CLI app.

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Railway

Made for any language, for projects big and small.
Pricing:
- Open Source
There is a pay as you go model available if you want to scale your apps. Just sign up for the trial account (free tier) and then deploy your small apps. It is perfect for that and the best part is that it is now offering a Heroku importer. Migrating from Heroku to Railway will not be a problem. It can effectively pull the variables that you are using in your app so the whole migration process stays as fluid as possible.

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Koyeb

Powerful computing across clouds and edges.
Pricing:
- Freemium
Koyeb is a decent alternative to Heroku that you can consider for hosting or deploying your web apps and APIs. It has all the features of Heroku that you will need for your projects. So far, I have not encountered an importer tool for migrating Heroku deployments but I am sure doing that manually will not be that hard. Just like Heroku it offers you an intuitive web UI as well as CLI to push code to the cloud in seconds.

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Vercel

Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.

Vercel is last in my list and it is more like leys you host JavaScript based web apps and static websites. Since JS apps are in so much demand these days; you will find this platform easier to deploy your apps directly from GitHub/GitLab. It can even act as CI/CD pipeline for your projects. If you created a front end of an app then you can use it for deploying it. It lets you use custom domains in the free version and the best part is that it doesn’t ask for credit cards.

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