Head to head
Heroku vs Netlify
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
49/100Higher score | 46/100 | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #4 | #6 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 77 | 64 |
| AI Authority | 23 | 24 |
| Web Authority | 25 | 31 |
| Expert Assessment | 65 | 63 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | 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 | $9/month (Personal, 1,000 credits included) · free tier: Free forever at $0 with a hard 300-credit/month cap: deploys from AI, Git or API, unlimited deploy previews, Agent Runners, custom domains with SSL, Functions & AI models, Netlify Database, Blob storage, firewall traffic rules, global CDN, 1 concurrent build, no add-on credits |
| Pricing model | Usage-based / resource-metered subscription (per dyno, per database, per token) | Credit-based (flat monthly fee plus metered credits) |
| Best for | 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. | Small-to-midsize front-end and full-stack teams on modern JS frameworks that want Git-based deploys, deploy previews and zero infrastructure management, with modest or bursty bandwidth — the unlimited-members Pro plan is strong value for a 5–20 person team. |
| Avoid if | 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. | You run high-bandwidth or media-heavy products (egress at 20 credits/GB is the cost driver), need many parallel builds ($40 per concurrent build scales badly against CI-inclusive rivals), require a firm published all-in monthly figure, or need HIPAA and private connectivity, which are Enterprise add-ons only. |
| Markets | Startups, SMB, Enterprise, Agencies, Developers, Students | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Startups, Developers |
| 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.