Is Heroku's Fir generation (range) the best deal?

Dynos · $25/mo (32 vCPU)

Better deals exist

Railway's Hobby plan offers dramatically better raw specs (48 vCPU, 48 GB RAM) at $5/mo with $5 included credit, making it 5-80x cheaper than Heroku's $25-$2,400 range for equivalent workloads. However, Railway's per-second metering and lack of published SLA create real risk for production use, while Heroku's hidden costs (Postgres reliability cliffs, add-on overages, performance dyno provisioning delays) are equally concerning.

Hobby

$5/mosave 80%

Includes $5 monthly credit, 48 vCPU and 48 GB RAM at entry price, and per-second billing means you only pay for what you use.

Caveat: No published SLA, metered overages can spike costs unpredictably under load, and egress charges ($0.05/GB) are separate; best for side projects and solo developers, not production.

Before you switch

Heroku's $25/mo Fir tier is a range, not a discrete SKU; actual cost depends on which of 4 families you choose and whether you hit add-on overages (Postgres row/connection limits, Redis memory).
Heroku Postgres Essential (often bundled at lower tiers) has no HA, no fork/follow, and only 99.5% SLA; upgrading to Standard is a hidden cost cliff for reliability.
Railway's per-second metering means a traffic spike or resource-heavy job can exceed the $5 flat fee within hours; verify your expected CPU/RAM/egress usage against Railway's published per-second rates before committing.
Heroku Performance dynos require established billing history and may be provisioning-gated; Eco dynos are personal-account only and unavailable to teams/enterprises.
Railway Pro plan scales cost by team headcount ($20/seat/month) on top of usage; Heroku's team/enterprise pricing is opaque and requires sales contact for Advanced Postgres tiers.

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Comparable plans across providers

Provider	Plan	Price	Specs
Railway	Railway Plans · Hobby	$5/mo	48 GB RAM, 48 vCPU, 5 GB SSD	Visit

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