Pricing
Heroku pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
Reviewed pricing summary
- Heroku uses a usage-based, tiered pricing model across compute (dynos), managed data services, and AI inference.
- Cedar dynos range from $5/month (Eco, sleeps on inactivity) and $7/month (Basic, always-on) to $25–$50/month (Standard), $250–$1,500/month (Performance), and $125–$1,800/month (Shield/Private variants).
- The new Fir (Kubernetes) dyno generation starts at $25/month and scales to $2,400/month for 32 vCPU/64 GB configurations; Fir dynos require Private Spaces.
- Heroku Postgres ranges from $5/month (Essential-0, 1 GB) to $34,000/month (Shield-10, 1 TB/8 TB).
- Heroku Key-Value Store (Redis) starts at $3/month (Mini).
- Apache Kafka on Heroku starts at $100/month.
- AI Managed Inference is priced per million tokens, starting at $0.06/1M input tokens for Amazon Nova Lite and ranging up to $5.50/1M output tokens for Claude Opus.
- Enterprise plans with Private Spaces, Shield, and custom SLAs are available via sales.
- No free tier exists; basic support is free for all paying customers.
Benchmark context
#8
of 12 in Cloud Infrastructure & PaaS
10.4%
AI search visibility
Sources and verification
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