🆚 Heroku vs. Render

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Deployment platform
Deployment platform

About

Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.

Render is a unified cloud platform for building and running applications and websites with a global CDN, private networks, and automatic deployments from Git.

It provides managed services including Web Services, Static Sites, and Background Workers, fully managed PostgreSQL databases, key-value Redis-compatible instances, and edge caching.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ❌
Heroku Dynos$5+/month
Heroku Postgres$5+/month
Free version ✔️2 domains, 100 GB of bandwidth per month
Professional$19/user/month
Organization$29/user/month
EnterpriseCustom

Categories

Deployment Platforms › Rank #18
Deployment Platforms › Rank #7
Cloud Services › Rank #31

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Render deployment platform is 26 times more popular than Heroku.
Total websites

Market share

Deployment Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Render is more popular than Heroku in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
India
Australia
Canada
Brazil
Netherlands
Sweden

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Render is more popular than Heroku in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Real Estate
Sports
Fashion/Beauty

See also

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