VPS and app hosting
Heroku
Best for: teams that already know Heroku and want hosted AI models next to the app.
- From
- $5/mo
- Free plan or trial
- No
- Checked
- Oct 17, 2026
Overview
- Compared on: VPS and app hosting
What's good
- Managed Inference and Agents hosts AI models next to your app, billed per token
- Postgres from $5 a month and Key-Value Store from $3
- Basic dynos ($7/month) stay up when an app must not sleep
Watch out for
- Eco dynos are for personal accounts and sleep after 30 minutes without traffic
- When the 1,000 Eco hours run out, Eco dynos sleep for the rest of the month
Where we compare it
- Railway alternatives for hosting an AI app$5/month (Eco dynos, 1,000 hours shared across the account)
Heroku pricing
- $5/month (Eco dynos, 1,000 hours shared across the account)from Railway alternatives for hosting an AI app, checked Oct 17, 2026
Prices in US dollars from Heroku's own site, checked Oct 17, 2026: heroku.com/pricing, devcenter.heroku.com/articles/eco-dyno-hours
Free plan
No free plan
Heroku alternatives
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How much does Heroku cost?
$5/month (Eco dynos, 1,000 hours shared across the account) (checked Oct 17, 2026 on Heroku's own site).
Does Heroku have a free plan?
No free plan.
What are the best alternatives to Heroku?
Other VPS and app hosting options we've checked: Fly.io ($2.19/mo), Vultr ($2.50/mo), Hostinger ($2.99/mo), UpCloud ($3.50/mo).
This page is built from the prices and facts we checked on each tool's own site. We haven't tested Heroku hands-on.How we work