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Heroku vs Render

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

Heroku

$84/yr

Same yearly cost as Render

Who has a free plan
  • Herokuno free plan
  • Renderhas a free plan
Easiest to rebuild

Heroku, Render

Worth subscribing

To start without paying, Render has a free plan.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONHerokuHostingRenderHosting
Monthly billing$7/moBasic Dyno$7/moStarter Web Service
Per year$84/yr$84/yr
Billing modelFlat subscriptionFlat subscription
Free tierno free tierHobby workspace: 1 member, 25 services, 5 GB outbound bandwidth and 500 build minutes/month; Free web-service compute supplies 750 instance-hours/workspace/month and spins down after 15 idle minutes
Additional costsDatabases, add-ons, network services and support are separate. Review apps and one-off dynos also consume paid dyno time. Eco is charged as the full $5 monthly pool rather than normal per-second proration.Workspace fee and compute stack: each scaled instance is billed separately; outbound bandwidth is $0.15/GB over plan, extra custom domains are $0.25/domain/month, extra build capacity is $5/1,000 minutes on Pro/Scale, persistent disks and databases cost extra
Can you rebuild it?Worth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sittingWorth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sitting
Free alternatives
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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