🆚 Heroku vs. Netlify
- 📈 Netlify is three times more popular than Heroku.
- 🌎 Netlify is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
- 🌍 Heroku is more popular in the Dominican Republic, Namibia, and Bolivia.
Type
About
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.
Netlify is a composable web development platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and host websites and applications.
It offers
Git-integrated continuous deployment, automatic build previews for every branch, one-click rollbacks, edge functions, and serverless form handling with automatic form detection.
Headquarters
Pricing
(1K credits) $9/month
(3K credits) $20/user/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Sweden in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in India in the Deployment Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


