Heroku pricing.
Prices checked
Heroku publishes 8 prices, from $5 a month, checked .
Every price Heroku publishes
- 1
Eco
Sized instance512 MB RAM · sleeps when idle
$5/mo - 2
Basic
Sized instance512 MB RAM · always on
$7/mo - 3
Standard-1X
Sized instance512 MB RAM · always on
$25/mo - 4
Standard-2X
Sized instance1 GB RAM · always on
$50/mo - 5
Performance-M
Sized instance2.5 GB RAM · always on
$250/mo - 6
Performance-L
Sized instance14 GB RAM · always on
$500/mo - 7
Performance-L-RAM
Sized instance30 GB RAM · always on
$500/mo - 8
Performance-XL
Sized instance62 GB RAM · always on
$750/mo
Where to start
Kind
App platform
it takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you
Stops when idle
1/8
plans the provider says sleep
Free tier
No
the cheapest step is a paid one
Smallest billing unit
Second
billed per second, on every plan
Where Heroku ranks
What Heroku charges on top
Heroku publishes no metered rates beside its prices, which is not the same as charging nothing. Check its own page before you commit.
Similar platforms
Other platforms at their cheapest instance with 1 GB of memory or more, cheapest first. Each percentage is against Heroku's, $50 a month.
Frequently asked
- What kind of platform is Heroku?
- App platform: it takes your code or an image and runs a container of it for you. You push a repository or an image and the platform builds it, runs it and keeps it running. There is no operating system to look after and no root, which is the point: the container is replaced rather than repaired. What you size is memory and a share of a processor.
- What is the cheapest Heroku plan?
- Eco at $5/mo, which is 512 MB RAM, and it sleeps when idle. Checked 1 Nov 2026.
- Does Heroku stop your app when nothing calls it?
- On 1 of its 8 plans, yes: the app is stopped while idle and the next request waits for it to start again. The other 7 it states stay on.
- What does Heroku charge on top of the plan price?
- Heroku publishes no metered rates beside its prices, which is not the same as charging nothing for them. Its own page is the place to check before you commit.
- How current are these Heroku prices?
- We read them from Heroku's own pricing page every 3 days; the reading on this page is from 1 Nov 2026. Tax is extra.
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