🆚 Heroku vs. Upsun

📈 Heroku is noticeably more popular than Upsun.
🌎 Heroku is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil.
🌍 Upsun is more popular in France, Germany, and Australia.

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

Heroku

Upsun

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.

Upsun (formerly Platform.sh) is a container-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, iterate, and deploy applications using Git-native workflows with fully managed infrastructure.

It supports instant environment cloning, multi-cloud deployment across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, automatic scaling with per-container resource control, built-in observability, a Git-based API and CLI, and enterprise-grade compliance including SOC 2 and PCI DSS.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Paris, France

Website

heroku.com #5,675

upsun.com #69,111

Pricing

Free version ❌

Heroku Dynos $5+/month

Heroku Postgres $5+/month

Free version ❌

Flexible resources User licenses $10/user/month
Project fee $9/project/month
CPU Shared $25+/month
Guaranteed $75+/month
Memory (1 GB) $10+/month
Disk storage $0.50/GB

Fixed resources Essential
(0.65 vCPU & 0.65 GB RAM) $22/month
Standard
(0.96 vCPU & 0.75 GB RAM) $45/month
Medium
(2.09 vCPU & 3 GB RAM) $112.5/month
Large
(4.11 vCPU & 6 GB RAM) $224.75/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

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

Total websites

Market share

Deployment Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Heroku is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, while Upsun is more popular in France, Germany, and Australia.

United States

United Kingdom

France

Germany

Australia

Brazil

Canada

Switzerland

Japan

Netherlands

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.

🥉 Third most popular in France in the Deployment Platforms category.
🥉 Third most popular in Belgium in the Deployment Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Deployment Platforms category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Switzerland in the Deployment Platforms category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Deployment Platforms category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Heroku is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services, while Upsun is more commonly used on education and reference, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and health sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Internet Services

Entertainment

Online Shopping

Health

Travel

Real Estate

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#428

#807

#1,168

#1,358

#3,593

Name

Rank

#1,299

#2,340

#2,889

#6,536

#7,447