In 2022, Heroku announced that it would stop offering some of its free plans.
Fortunately, there are some excellent free Heroku alternatives.
1.Render
Render is a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites.
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However, these plans have certain usage limits and are designed to helpbuild personal projects and explore new tech.
Cyclic is ideal for hosting full-stack MERN apps.
Its free tier features up to 10,000 API requests with fast builds and 1GB runtime memory.
Using Cyclics free tier gives you an edge over competitors when it comes to inactivity delay.
Platforms like Heroku and Render take approximately 30 seconds to restart a service after a period of inactivity.
In contrast, this service takes approximately 200ms according toCyclics benchmarks.
Railway makes it possible to deploy your web applications in a single click using their templates.
There are over 50Railway templatesfor web apps built with different languages and frameworks.
Railway also offers a free tier like Heroku.
However, this tier is only available to new users with verified accounts.
As a new user with an unverified account, your free tier will limit you to deploying databases.
However, it will limit you to 500MB of RAM and shared (rather than dedicated) vCPU cores.
Unlike other Heroku hosting alternatives, Deta Space currently does not have a paid tier.
Their platform is free by default and currently has no limits to their wide range of use cases.
Unlike other free alternatives to Heroku, Fly.io doesn’t have a “free tier”.
However, they offer free resource allowances.
Other Heroku Alternatives
Other platforms like Vercel, Netlify, and GitHub pages offer free tiers.
These platforms are ideal for hosting static sites and offer limited support for hosting full-stack applications.
