Heroku alternatives with a free tier listed in a GitHub repo

• heroku-free-alternatives

  15 1,761 4.4

  Free tier of Heroku Dynos, Postgres and Data for Redis will no longer be available after November 28, 2022. Let's find a list of services with a free plan that developers can use as an alternative to Heroku. Feel free to submit PRs and improve the list.

  

• sidekiq

  192 7 0.0 Ruby

  Sidekiq worker on Render (by render-examples)

  

Clickable links ⬇

https://render.com/ - One of the top Heroku alternatives with a free plan to get started.

https://fly.io/ - Run your full stack apps (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required.

https://railway.app/ - Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software.

https://www.cyclic.sh/ - Connect your GitHub repo. We will build, deploy and manage the hosting.

https://qoddi.com/ - Qoddi is a fully managed App Hosting Platform running on a tier 1 network at 10% of the cost of similar solutions.

https://www.deta.sh/ - Build & deploy your ideas on the universe's most developer friendly cloud platform.

https://adaptable.io/ - Just connect your GitHub repository and let Adaptable handle the rest.

https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/ - All your services in one place.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• templates

  271 325 4.3

  Railway starters (by railwayapp)

  

Clickable links ⬇

https://render.com/ - One of the top Heroku alternatives with a free plan to get started.

https://fly.io/ - Run your full stack apps (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required.

https://railway.app/ - Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software.

https://www.cyclic.sh/ - Connect your GitHub repo. We will build, deploy and manage the hosting.

https://qoddi.com/ - Qoddi is a fully managed App Hosting Platform running on a tier 1 network at 10% of the cost of similar solutions.

https://www.deta.sh/ - Build & deploy your ideas on the universe's most developer friendly cloud platform.

https://adaptable.io/ - Just connect your GitHub repository and let Adaptable handle the rest.

https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/ - All your services in one place.

• flyctl

  543 1,298 9.9 Go

  Command line tools for fly.io services

  

Clickable links ⬇

https://render.com/ - One of the top Heroku alternatives with a free plan to get started.

https://fly.io/ - Run your full stack apps (and databases!) all over the world. No ops required.

https://railway.app/ - Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software.

https://www.cyclic.sh/ - Connect your GitHub repo. We will build, deploy and manage the hosting.

https://qoddi.com/ - Qoddi is a fully managed App Hosting Platform running on a tier 1 network at 10% of the cost of similar solutions.

https://www.deta.sh/ - Build & deploy your ideas on the universe's most developer friendly cloud platform.

https://adaptable.io/ - Just connect your GitHub repository and let Adaptable handle the rest.

https://www.alwaysdata.com/en/ - All your services in one place.

• aws-cdk

  263 11,137 9.9 TypeScript

  The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

  

• awesome-developer-first

  3 778 7.8

  A curated list of awesome developer-first tools products.

Shameless plug, I created my own awesome list that covers many of these providers - I curated products that developers would like:

https://github.com/agamm/awesome-developer-first

• coolify

  110 13,311 10.0 PHP

  An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

  

This topic came up a few weeks ago and I commented [0] that I started using Coolify (https://coolify.io), an open source self-hosted PaaS that's similar to CapRover and Dokku but in my opinion the developer experience is a lot simpler since it has a GUI unlike Dokku (non-Pro version, anyway) and the deployment was easier than CapRover since it connects directly to your GitHub/GitLab account via their API.

I've used a lot of the alternatives listed here but each one had some drawback or another. In contrast, I got a cheap 5 dollar Hetzner server and it's more powerful than any of what the free options here give you (Hetzner gets you 2 AMD vCPUs and 2 GB RAM), plus unlike AWS I never have to worry about whether I'm gonna randomly pay $10k this month due to a traffic spike. The only thing that was missing before was a good PaaS solution for the server (and I used to use Dokku before primarily) but Coolify solves that neatly.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077118#33077464

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Dokku

  179 25,947 9.9 Shell

  A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

  

The best alternative to Heroku is a cheap VPS with Digital Ocean or Linode. Throw on the open source PAAS software https://dokku.com/ and boom, cheap, simple and easy.

• cockroach

  100 29,023 10.0 Go

  CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database.

  

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