Heroku
Salesforce, Inc., San Francisco, California, United StatesHeroku 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.
According to our data, Heroku is the 6th most popular deployment platform on the web.
It has 4.9% of the deployment platform market share and is detected on 0.1% of all websites.
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Salesforce.com Buys Heroku For $212 Million In Cash💸 Pricing
Heroku is a commercial product priced starting at $5 per month.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Deployment Platforms
- Rank: 6
- Market share: 4.9%
- Cloud Services
- Rank: 19
- Market share: 0.4%
🏆 Heroku 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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in France in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Canada in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Services category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Cloud Services category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Australia in the Cloud Services category.
⚡ Sites Powered by Heroku
We have data on 4,093 websites that use the Heroku deployment platform. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Heroku is genius.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | #428 | English | ||
| 2 | #807 | United States | American English | |
| 3 | #1,168 | English | ||
| 4 | #1,358 | United States | English | |
| 5 | #3,593 | United States | English | |
| 6 | #3,994 | United States | English | |
| 7 | #4,461 | English | ||
| 8 | #5,416 | United States | English | |
| 9 | #6,593 | United States | English | |
| 10 | #7,732 | Japan | Japanese | |
| 11 |  keap.com |
#7,753 | United States | English |
| 12 | #7,823 | Austria | German | |
| 13 | #8,256 | Argentina | Spanish | |
| 14 | #9,730 | Canada | American English | |
| 15 | #10,122 | English | ||
| 16 | #11,516 | English | ||
| 17 | #13,225 | United States | English | |
| 18 | #13,279 | United States | English | |
| 19 | #13,883 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 20 | #14,297 | Germany | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Heroku:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Heroku are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil.
- United States 30.2%
- United Kingdom 11.5%
- Brazil 6%
- Japan 5.1%
- Germany 4.9%
- France 4%
- Australia 3.5%
- Canada 3.4%
- Netherlands 2.8%
- Other 28.6%
Most Heroku users speak English, Portuguese, or German.
- English 78.6%
- Portuguese 3.5%
- German 3%
- Japanese 2.7%
- Spanish 2.6%
- French 2.6%
- Dutch 1.2%
- Swedish 0.8%
- Italian 0.8%
- Other 4.2%
The Heroku deployment platform is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 53.6%
- .org 8.9%
- .com.br 2.8%
- .io 2.7%
- .co 2%
- .co.uk 1.9%
- .net 1.7%
- .de 1.5%
- .com.au 1.3%
- Other 23.6%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Heroku include business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services.
- Business 18.8%
- Marketing/Merchandising 11.2%
- Internet Services 7%
- Entertainment 5.3%
- Education/Reference 5.2%
- Online Shopping 5%
- Real Estate 3.5%
- Blogs/Wiki 3.4%
- Sports 3.4%
- Other 37.2%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind Heroku?
Heroku is owned by Salesforce, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Can I use Heroku for free?
No, Heroku is a paid solution.
How much does it cost?
Heroku is priced from $5 per month for the Heroku Dynos plan.
Which country uses Heroku the most?
The majority of Heroku users are from the United States.
Who uses Heroku?
According to our data, Heroku is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as genius.com,
zearn.org, and
anthology.com.
Is Heroku used on government websites?
In total, we found Heroku on 4 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Heroku?
Yes. Overall, we know of 4 academic websites in the United States that use Heroku.
How does Heroku stack up against the competition?
Heroku is a moderately popular deployment platform, ranking ahead of 18 other deployment platforms we track.
👉 See Also
- ✨ Related technologies
- 💼 All technologies from Salesforce, Inc.
🗃️ 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.