Heroku

Heroku is an AI platform as a service (AI PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale applications entirely in the cloud.

Employees

201-500

Pricing

Public pricing page

AI Classification

SaaSInfrastructure/DevTools

Heroku is a cloud Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) owned by Salesforce that enables developers to build, deploy, run, and scale applications in the cloud across multiple programming languages including Ruby, Node.js, Python, Java, and Go. It serves individual developers, startups, and enterprises seeking managed infrastructure with developer-friendly deployment workflows.

Deep Intelligence

Buying Signals

Salesforce ownership provides enterprise distribution muscle and cross-sell opportunities into large Salesforce customer base
Heroku discontinued free tier in November 2022, signaling a deliberate upmarket shift toward paid, commercial workloads
Active product lines including Heroku Postgres, Heroku Redis, and Private Spaces indicate expanding managed data services portfolio
Continued support for multiple language runtimes (Ruby, Node, Python, Java, Go, PHP, Scala, Clojure) sustains broad developer adoption across engineering teams

Account Scoring

Tier ALow Churn RiskStable

Pain Signals

Scraped website content was entirely binary/unreadable, suggesting possible content delivery or encoding issues that may affect developer documentation accessibility
Market perception as a higher-cost PaaS alternative compared to newer competitors (Render, Railway, Fly.io) puts pressure on mid-market and startup retention
Elimination of free tier has created developer community friction, potentially reducing top-of-funnel adoption among individual developers and hobbyists