Heroku features: tier-by-tier list (2026)
Veteran PaaS where total bill is dyno tier plus Postgres, Key-Value Store, Kafka, and SSL-ready Private Spaces. Easy to start, easy to overshoot.
Core capabilities (14)
Heroku Runtime
Heroku runs your apps inside dynos — smart containers on a reliable, fully managed runtime environment .
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Heroku Developer Experience (DX)
The Heroku Developer Experience is an app-centric approach to software delivery so developers can focus on creating and continuously delivering applications, without being distracted by servers or infrastructure.
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Data Services and Ecosystem
Heroku Elements let developers extend their apps with Add-ons, customize their application stack with Buildpacks and jumpstart their projects with Buttons.
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Heroku AppLink
Connect your Heroku Apps to Salesforce with ease. Heroku AppLink streamlines the integration process, allowing developers to securely connect Heroku apps with Agentforce, Data Cloud, or any Salesforce Cloud.
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Heroku Operational Experience (OpEx)
The Heroku Operational Experience is a key component of the platform. It helps developers through troubleshooting and remediation of common issues and customizing their ops experience to quickly identify and address negative trends in their application health.
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Cost Savings and Business Benefits Enabled by Heroku
This 2025 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Salesforce explores the ROI that enterprises may see* from utilizing Heroku. It shows that Heroku: Reduced operational complexity , enabling developers to improve productivity by 40%.
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Developer-centric
At Heroku, we believe that developers are the most important part of transforming every company into an apps company. That’s why a great developer experience has always been at the very heart of what we do.
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App-centric
The Heroku Platform is designed so you can focus on what matters the most: the app. Getting apps out in the wild, in front of real users, and then iterating fast, is what can make or break companies.
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Production-centric
The Heroku Platform is great for the early part of the app lifecycle, but it really shines when you go into production. Heroku seamlessly supports every step of the app lifecycle — build, run, manage and scale.
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Config Vars on Heroku
“Heroku’s managed platform helps our product team stay excited about building new product features.
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Ready to Get Started
Stay focused on building great data-driven applications and let Heroku tackle the rest.
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Experience a fully managed app platform designed to
Experience a fully managed app platform designed to grow alongside your most ambitious projects.
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* Study results are for a composite organization
* Study results are for a composite organization representative of interviewed customers.
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Heroku is a cloud platform as a service
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) supporting several programming languages .
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AI features (1)
The Heroku Platform
Heroku is an AI PaaS (Platform as a Service) based on a managed container system, with integrated data services and a powerful ecosystem, for deploying and running modern apps.
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Security and compliance (1)
Security and Compliance
Developers from around the world entrust sensitive data to Heroku, and nothing is more important to us than honoring our custodial commitments to protect this data.
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See Heroku pricing in detail
This page lists what Heroku does. For per-seat math, tier comparison, and the full hidden-fee list, see the Heroku pricing breakdown.
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Features evolve. Confirm directly with the vendor before purchase decisions. This list was last refreshed on 2026-05-27.
Frequently asked questions
What features does Heroku include?
This page tracks 16 verified Heroku features across 3 categories, sourced from Heroku's official site and Wikipedia.
Which tier do I need for Heroku?
Heroku's feature availability varies by plan. Compare the public Heroku tiers, calculator, and hidden fees on the Heroku pricing page.
How does Heroku compare on features to alternatives?
Buyers commonly compare Heroku against Render, Railway, Fly.io. Each alternative's feature page is linked below where we cover it.