Heroku
Managed PaaS for git-push app deployment and scaling
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 2 independent review sources
- 327 third-party reviews counted
- 1 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 1
- 8 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Heroku ranks #4
Heroku ranks #4 of 9 app hosting & paas with a TOP SCORE of 49.
The category leader scores 57, a gap of 9 points.
That is 1 points above the category average of 48.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 77; its weakest is AI Authority at 23.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
59 → 49 ↓10.0
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.5/5 | 90 | 22 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| Capterra ↗ | 4.6/5 | 92 | 305 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 33% | 8% | 0% | 5.0 | 12 | 31 Aug 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- Heroku Dev Center31 Aug 2026
- G231 Aug 2026
- Capterra31 Aug 2026
- GetApp31 Aug 2026
- Trustpilot31 Aug 2026
- Salesforce Trust31 Aug 2026
- Qovery31 Aug 2026
- SigNoz31 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Heroku is a fully managed Platform-as-a-Service owned by Salesforce that runs application code in managed containers called dynos and bundles managed data services (Postgres, Key-Value Store, Kafka) plus AI inference and agent hosting. It targets developers, startups, agencies and enterprises that want to deploy via `git push` without operating their own infrastructure, with Private Spaces and Shield available for isolated or regulated workloads. Two runtimes are sold side by side: the classic Cedar foundation and the Kubernetes-powered Fir, which requires a Private Space.
- Category
- App Hosting & PaaS
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, USA (Salesforce Tower, 415 Mission Street)
- Products
- Heroku Platform (Cedar and Fir dynos), Heroku Postgres, Heroku Key-Value Store (managed Redis), Apache Kafka on Heroku, Heroku AI (Managed Inference and Agents, MCP hosting, pgvector), Heroku Enterprise (Private Spaces, Shield, SSO), Heroku Connect, Heroku Flow (continuous delivery), Elements Marketplace, Heroku Teams
- Markets
- Startups, SMB, Enterprise, Agencies, Developers, Students
- Integrations
- GitHub (auto-deploy, Review Apps), Docker, Salesforce (via Heroku Connect), Salesforce Identity SSO, Okta, PingOne, Microsoft AD, PingFederate, 150+ third-party add-ons via Elements Marketplace, 380+ open-source buildpacks
- 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 pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- Owned and operated by Salesforce, Inc.; governed by Salesforce legal terms, privacy policy and trust.salesforce.com. Vendor states it maintains PCI, HIPAA, ISO and SOC compliance with regular audits, and Heroku Shield is the mechanism for BAA signing and PCI compliance — but the specific ISO number, SOC report type and audit dates were not retrieved and remain unverified. Status is published at status.salesforce.com/products/Heroku; no historical uptime percentages were verified. The only availability commitments confirmed are the published Postgres downtime allowances of 4 hours/month (Essential) and 1 hour/month (Standard).
- Official website
- https://www.heroku.com ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform49
- Category leader57
- Category average48
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