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Heroku vs Vercel

Price, free plan and alternatives, side by side

The comparison in short

Cheapest per year

Heroku

$84/yr

65% less than Vercel

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

Vercel

With trade-offs

multi-day

On price, Heroku wins. To start without paying, Vercel has a free plan. If you would rather build it, Vercel is the simplest to rebuild.

Side-by-side comparison

APPLICATIONHerokuHostingVercelHosting
Monthly billing$7/moBasic Dyno$20/moPro
Per year$84/yr$240/yr
Billing modelFlat subscriptionPer person
Free tierno free tierPersonal/non-commercial use: 1 developer, 1M edge requests/month, 100 GB transfer, 1M function invocations and 4 active CPU hours/month.
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.Pro overages include $2 per additional 1M edge requests and $0.15/GB transfer after included usage; new teams have a default $200 on-demand budget unless a hard limit is set. Add-ons include SAML SSO $300/month, HIPAA BAA $350/month, Advanced Deployment Protection $150/month, Static IP $100/project/month, Preview URL Suffix $100/month, extra microfrontend projects $250/month, Web Analytics Plus $10/month and Speed Insights $10/project/month.
Can you rebuild it?Worth subscribingclosest consolation build: one sittingWith trade-offsmulti-day
Free alternatives+1
Checked on10/20/202610/20/2026
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