Head to head
Fly.io vs Heroku
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
39/100 | 49/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #4 |
| Confidence | Medium confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | — | 77 |
| AI Authority | 52 | 23 |
| Web Authority | 21 | 25 |
| Expert Assessment | 42 | 65 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published — third-party source cites shared 256 MB instance at ~$0.0027/hour (~$1.94/month if always on) · free tier: Not published (no free allowance verified this session) | USD $5/month (Eco dyno, 0.5 GB, personal accounts only, sleeps after 30 minutes of inactivity); Heroku Postgres Essential-0 also $5/month · free tier: None on the published price list; Basic Support is free, and Heroku Connect has a free Demo Edition |
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Usage-based / resource-metered subscription (per dyno, per database, per token) |
| Best for | Developer teams deploying containerised apps who want per-second consumption pricing and multi-region placement, and who are comfortable self-serving from documentation. | Small-to-mid engineering teams, startups and agencies that want to ship without hiring a platform engineer, Salesforce-centric organisations needing Heroku Connect sync, and regulated workloads wanting HIPAA/PCI controls with PaaS convenience. |
| Avoid if | You need a contractual uptime SLA, hands-on support included in the base price, or a predictable fixed monthly invoice — all inferences from pricing structure, none confirmed by customer evidence. | You are a hobbyist or student with no budget, run sustained high traffic where per-unit infrastructure cost dominates, need fast-turnaround support without an Enterprise contract, require low-level infrastructure control such as persistent local disk or custom cron daemons, or cannot work with credit-card-only monthly billing. |
| Markets | Developers, SMB, Startups | Startups, SMB, Enterprise, Agencies, Developers, Students |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | San Francisco, California, USA (Salesforce Tower, 415 Mission Street) |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.