🆚 Firebase Hosting vs. Heroku

Type

Deployment platform
Deployment platform

About

Firebase Hosting is a fully managed hosting and deployment service within Firebase for serving static websites, dynamic web applications, server-rendered content, and microservices.

It provides global content delivery through Google's CDN, automatic SSL certificate provisioning, custom domain support, preview deployments for testing changes, HTTP/2 and IPv6 support, and integration with Cloud Run for dynamic backend logic.

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale web applications without managing underlying infrastructure.

It provides isolated containers called Dynos, which are based on LXC (older Cedar generation) and Kubernetes (new Fir generation), and managed data services including Postgres, Key-Value Store, and Apache Kafka.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free tier ✔️ 5 GB of storage + 5GB of uncached and 5GB of cached outgoing bandwidth per month
Storage $0.10/GB
Uncached outgoing bandwidth $0.20/GB
Cached outgoing bandwidth $0.15/GB
Free version ❌
Heroku Dynos $5+/month
Heroku Postgres $5+/month

Categories

Deployment Platforms › Rank #5
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Cloud Services › Rank #19

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Firebase Hosting deployment platform is 1.4 times more popular than Heroku.
Total websites

Market share

Deployment Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Firebase Hosting is more popular in Japan, Brazil, and India, while Heroku is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Brazil
India
Germany
France
Australia
Canada
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Firebase Hosting is more popular among sites focused on Internet services, software and hardware, and blogs and wiki, while Heroku is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Games
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#4,074
#5,855
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Rank
#3,593
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See also

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