Heroku vs Hostinger

Heroku is strongest for teams migrating away. Hostinger is strongest for budget-conscious site owners. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Heroku	Hostinger
Starting price	$3/mo	$2.99/mo
Best for	Teams migrating away Legacy Rails/Node apps Historical PaaS comparison	Budget-conscious site owners WordPress sites Small business web hosting First-time VPS users
Stated uptime SLA	99.5% (Postgres Essential); higher SLAs on Standard/Premium/Private/Shield not separately published	99.9%
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	2	10
Managed Kubernetes	No	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs (Dev Center), Community forum	24/7 live chat, Ticket, Knowledge base, AI assistant (Kodee)
Compliance	SOC 2, HIPAA (Shield tier only), GDPR, PCI (Shield tier only)	GDPR
Hidden costs to watch for	Eco dynos ($5/mo flat) are personal-account only and not available to Enterprise/Team customers Postgres Essential tier has no fork/follow, no HA, and only 99.5% uptime SLA -- a hidden reliability cliff vs. Standard Add-on overages (Postgres row/connection limits, Redis memory limits) can force an unplanned upgrade to the next tier Performance dynos require an established payment/billing history before they can be provisioned Private Spaces and Shield Private Spaces carry a substantial network-isolation premium (2-3x) over common-runtime equivalents Heroku Postgres Advanced tier pricing is not published; requires contacting sales	Displayed price is an introductory promo rate tied to prepaying a 12/24/48-month term; renewal price is 2-4x higher (e.g. VPS KVM 1 renews at $11.99/mo vs $6.49/mo intro) Monthly (1-month) billing is available but at a significantly higher per-month rate than any multi-month term Free domain is only free for the first year; renews at standard domain pricing Dedicated IP, extra backups, and some AI/Vibe coding credits are limited allotments, not unlimited Weekly (not daily) backups on base VPS plans; daily backups reserved for Cloud plans
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18