Head to head
Netlify vs Heroku
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
46/100 | 49/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #6 | #4 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 64 | 77 |
| AI Authority | 24 | 23 |
| Web Authority | 31 | 25 |
| Expert Assessment | 63 | 65 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | $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 | 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 | Credit-based (flat monthly fee plus metered credits) | Usage-based / resource-metered subscription (per dyno, per database, per token) |
| Best for | 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. | 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 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. | 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 | SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise, Startups, Developers | 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.