🆚 Heroku vs. PythonAnywhere
- 📈 Heroku is much more popular than PythonAnywhere.
- 🌎 Heroku is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil.
- 🌍 PythonAnywhere is more popular in Paraguay.
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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.
PythonAnywhere is a cloud-based Python development and hosting platform for deploying web applications through a browser-based environment.
It provides preconfigured Python runtimes, browser-based Bash consoles and code editors, Jupyter notebooks, MySQL databases,
Git integration, CPU and memory monitoring, and deployment support for frameworks such as Django, Flask, and Web2py.
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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.
- ⭐ 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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany 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.
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🗃️ 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 3,827,502 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


