Heroku vs Vultr

Heroku is strongest for teams migrating away. Vultr is strongest for developers. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Heroku	Vultr
Starting price	$3/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Teams migrating away Legacy Rails/Node apps Historical PaaS comparison	Developers GPU/AI workloads Price-sensitive scaling
Stated uptime SLA	99.5% (Postgres Essential); higher SLAs on Standard/Premium/Private/Shield not separately published	100% network uptime SLA
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	2	32
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs (Dev Center), Community forum	Ticket, Docs, Community
Compliance	SOC 2, HIPAA (Shield tier only), GDPR, PCI (Shield tier only)	SOC 2, 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	Bandwidth overage rate varies by data center location Windows license cost not included in base price
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18