🆚 Heroku vs. Pantheon

📈 Pantheon is noticeably more popular than Heroku.
🌎 Pantheon is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
🌎 Heroku is more popular in Brazil, Germany, and Japan.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Heroku

Pantheon

Type

Deployment platform

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.

Pantheon is a WebOps platform that allows users to host and manage WordPress, Drupal, and other web projects with infrastructure services such as a global CDN, caching, and load balancing.

It is built on Google Cloud infrastructure and provides container-based hosting with full-page and Redis object caching, a global content delivery network backed by Fastly, intelligent load distribution across application containers, managed databases (MariaDB and MySQL), automated backups, performance monitoring, and developer workflows with Git and CLI tools.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

heroku.com #5,675

pantheon.io #58,917

Pricing

Free version ❌

Heroku Dynos $5+/month

Heroku Postgres $5+/month

Free version ✔️ Workspace with sandbox site only

Silver
(25K+ visits) $55+/month

Gold
(25K+ visits) $655+/month

Platinum Custom

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Pantheon deployment platform is 1.9 times more popular than Heroku.

Total websites

Market share

Deployment Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Pantheon is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, while Heroku is more popular in Brazil, Germany, and Japan.

United States

United Kingdom

Canada

Australia

Brazil

Germany

Japan

France

Switzerland

Netherlands

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 States in the Deployment Platforms category.
🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Deployment Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Deployment Platforms category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Pantheon is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO, while Heroku is more commonly used on entertainment sites.

Business

Education/Reference

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Marketing/Merchandising

Health

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#428

#807

#1,168

#1,358

#3,593

Name

Rank

#52

#1,281

#1,450

#1,608

#1,727