Looking for a Heroku alternative
Heroku invented this category and taught everyone else what a deploy should feel like. People usually leave it over the bill.
What Heroku is good at
Being the thing that works. A decade of edge cases handled, and an add-on marketplace that still has something for most problems.
Documentation and a deploy model that thousands of engineers already know by heart.
Where we are different
What it costs when nothing is happening
Billed per day rather than per dyno, and an application nobody has opened today costs close to nothing — it sleeps and wakes on the next request.
Where it runs
Colombo, Singapore or Bangalore, rather than a region on another continent. For an internal tool used from one country, that is most of the experience.
Nothing new to learn
No dynos, no buildpack to choose, no Procfile to get right. Connect the repository and answer two questions in plain language.
Side by side
| Heroku | Roar AI Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Deploy from a repo | Yes | Yes |
| Price shape | Per dyno, per month | Per day, near-nothing while idle |
| Regions | US, EU | Colombo · Singapore · Bangalore |
| Database | Add-on | Provisioned with the app |
| AI gateway | No | Included, same key |
Who should not switch
If you lean on the add-on marketplace heavily, check we have equivalents before you move. We will tell you straight if we do not.
If your team knows Heroku well and the bill is not a problem, the migration is not worth your week.