Head to head
Heroku vs Vercel
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
49/100 | 57/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #4 | #1 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 77 | 80 |
| AI Authority | 23 | 57 |
| Web Authority | 25 | 21 |
| Expert Assessment | 65 | 62 |
| 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 | Pro: $20/month per additional paid seat (1 paid seat included); base headline price not verified from the vendor pricing page this session · free tier: Hobby plan with published allowances (4 hours Active CPU, 360 GB-hrs Provisioned Memory, 1M function invocations, 5K image transformations, 50K analytics events, 50K microfrontend routing requests); secondary sources state it is free and restricted to personal, non-commercial use, with no on-demand overage |
| Pricing model | Usage-based / resource-metered subscription (per dyno, per database, per token) | Usage-based with per-seat subscription and fixed monthly add-ons |
| 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. | Next.js or React teams of 1–10 developers who prize preview deployments and shipping speed over per-unit infrastructure cost, with moderate, reasonably predictable traffic and tolerance for a variable monthly bill. |
| 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 are running a commercial project on the free Hobby tier, are cost-sensitive with heavy bandwidth/image/ISR workloads, need SSO or HIPAA without Enterprise, require guaranteed responsive human support below Enterprise, or need long-running processes, containers or non-JS runtimes. |
| Markets | Startups, SMB, Enterprise, Agencies, Developers, Students | SMB, Startups, Agencies, Enterprise |
| 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.