# Heroku pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $5/mo (Eco). Among the 7 paas / app hosting we track it is #4 cheapest of 7; median entry $5/mo.
**Domain:** heroku.com
**Free tier:** No
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** GitHub, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Datadog, New Relic, Papertrail, Cloudflare, SendGrid
**Best for:** Healthcare and regulated-industry apps needing BAA; Teams migrating from legacy Cedar to Kubernetes-backed Fir; Enterprise Salesforce ecosystem deployments
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eco | $5 | — | flat | Cedar platform. 0.5 GB RAM, 1x-4x compute. Sleeps after inactivity. Personal accounts only. Free SSL included. | heroku.com |
| Basic | $7 | — | flat | Cedar platform. 0.5 GB RAM, 1x-4x compute. Always-on (no sleep). Personal accounts only. | heroku.com |
| Standard-1X | $25 | — | flat | Cedar platform. 0.5 GB RAM. Autoscaling, metrics, zero-downtime deploys. | heroku.com |
| Standard-2X | $50 | — | flat | Cedar platform. 1 GB RAM, 2x-8x compute. Autoscaling, metrics. | heroku.com |
| Performance-M | $250 | — | flat | Cedar platform. 2.5 GB RAM, 12x dedicated compute. Dedicated resources, autoscaling. | heroku.com |
| Performance-L | $500 | — | flat | Cedar platform. 14 GB RAM, 50x dedicated compute. | heroku.com |
| Shield-S | $150 | — | flat | Cedar platform, Shield tier. 1 GB RAM, 12x compute. HIPAA/PCI compliant, BAA available. Requires Private Space. | heroku.com |
| Fir Classic 1CPU-0.5GB | $25 | — | flat | Fir (Kubernetes) platform. 1 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM. Full network isolation, in-region builds, dedicated Kubernetes runtime. | heroku.com |
| Fir General Purpose 2CPU-4GB | $80 | — | flat | Fir (Kubernetes) platform. 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM. General purpose workloads. | heroku.com |

**Key features:** Shield tier with HIPAA/PCI BAA for healthcare apps; Fir (Kubernetes) platform alongside legacy Cedar dynos; Private Spaces with network isolation; SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27017/27018, PCI DSS Level 1.

**Plan limits:** Eco: 0.5 GB RAM, sleeps after inactivity, personal accounts only; Shield tier requires Private Space (significant add-on cost); HIPAA/PCI scope limited to Shield dynos and Shield Postgres.

## Cheaper paas / app hosting alternatives

- [Render](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/paas-app-hosting/render/) — from $0/mo
- [DigitalOcean App Platform](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/paas-app-hosting/digitalocean-app-platform/) — from $0/mo
- [Vercel](https://frontdeskreview.com/software/paas-app-hosting/vercel/) — from $0/mo

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: https://www.heroku.com/pricing accessed 2026-06-14. HIPAA/BAA confirmed on Shield-tier dynos and Shield Postgres. Fir (Kubernetes) dyno prices from same page.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/paas-app-hosting/heroku/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, Heroku's entry plan was $5/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/paas-app-hosting/heroku/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl