Heroku pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Heroku (heroku.com) is a hosting platform. Fixed monthly price per dyno. No free plan.
What Heroku costs
- Entry plan: $5/mo
- Small app: $7/mo
Plan compared: Eco: $5 for 1,000 dyno hours. Cheapest paid plan per month (per seat where plans are seat-based).
Heroku price hikes
- Heroku killed its free tier · Nov 28, 2022
Free dynos, free Postgres and free Redis were removed; the cheapest option became Eco at $5 a month for a pool of sleeping dynos.
Cheaper alternatives to Heroku
At the entry plan, Heroku costs $5/mo. 1 hosting platform costs less:
- Fly.io: $2.19/mo (Smallest Machine, 256 MB)
Heroku alternatives: 8 hosting platforms compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Nov 28, 2022 · Free tier cut: Free dynos, free Postgres and free Redis were removed; the cheapest option became Eco at $5 a month for a pool of sleeping dynos.
Sources
Pricing page: heroku.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Small app = one always-on Basic dyno at $7 (Eco sleeps). No dyno list-price changes found for 2023–2026.