Heroku vs Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Heroku is strongest for teams migrating away. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is strongest for enterprises running Oracle DB workloads. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Heroku	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Starting price	$3/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Teams migrating away Legacy Rails/Node apps Historical PaaS comparison	Enterprises running Oracle DB workloads Cost-sensitive compute at scale ARM (Ampere) workloads Autonomous Database users
Stated uptime SLA	99.5% (Postgres Essential); higher SLAs on Standard/Premium/Private/Shield not separately published	99.95%
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	2	49
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs (Dev Center), Community forum	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Phone (paid support tiers)
Compliance	SOC 2, HIPAA (Shield tier only), GDPR, PCI (Shield tier only)	SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP
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	Block Volume performance (VPU) is billed separately from raw capacity and charged for the tier selected regardless of actual I/O used Autonomous Database storage billed separately from OCPU/ECPU compute Enhanced OKE clusters add a $0.10/hour control-plane fee (capped at $74.40/month) on top of worker node costs Archive Storage restores take hours and carry a 90-day minimum retention charge if deleted early Object Storage Infrequent Access tier carries a per-GB retrieval fee and minimum retention period
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18