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Heroku vs Microsoft Azure comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Heroku
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
17th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
29
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Microsoft Azure
Ranking in PaaS Clouds
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
325
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Heroku is 2.9%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Azure is 11.3%, down from 17.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
PaaS Clouds Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Azure11.3%
Heroku2.9%
Other85.8%
PaaS Clouds
 

Featured Reviews

Faizan Haider - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Aldaim Solutions
Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases
Heroku is deployed on the cloud. We can deploy our private and public projects over at Heroku. Most of the time, when we are starting any new project from scratch, we have to implement our MVP for that project or the core idea. We are unsure how our traffic flow will go or the actual production environment requirements. We don't want to spend the most on the server sites, so then we can use it with our go-to plan for Heroku, and all the resources are available in the basic plan with the minimum expenses. So, it helps us to deploy and make our features available online at the minimum cost. Once we know our needs, we can add the professional add-ons and shift it to another platform. Heroku supports any resource listed in the marketplace. We just have to deploy our AI solutions, and Heroku can also support AI projects. I would recommend the solution to other users. I advise users not to purchase extra add-ons but to make scalable resources so that they can use all the resources efficiently. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.
Rafath Noor - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead DevOps Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Cloud platform has supported reliable growth and collaboration but customer support still needs improvement
In my opinion, the best features Microsoft Azure offers are the scalable solutions and serverless solution, Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. There are categorized services I can get. Based on my need, I can use and get most of those things. Regarding Microsoft Azure's AI capabilities, I think the governance and security are fine and the AI is consistent and I was able to get reliable outputs. Governance and security-wise, I was also satisfied with the performance, encryption-wise and the data transmission, transparency-wise. Regarding Microsoft Azure's AI capabilities, output-wise, the outputs are very much reliable, so I can depend on those things. There's nothing more to add and I am satisfied with the accuracy because it's more than 90% accuracy that I can find. That's fine for me.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I like the operations of the product because it makes it easy to push a change and to deploy new things."
"Deploying with git, npm install git hook ... basically, they got it right for nodejs servers hosting."
"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."
"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."
"It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good."
"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."
"Easy, fast, fun, and extendable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is the Area feature."
"I have found the solution to be flexible, easy to use, and the documents are straightforward to understand."
"We are using Microsoft Azure for deploying our Windows, and additionally for some analytic functions where we can have all our sales data and budgeting can be done."
"Easy and fast provisioning of Cloud Services including Web sites, Virtual Machines and Databases."
"Storage has made remote access to files much more painless and easy."
"As a software data center, we can put some pretty cool applications running there."
"Scalability is Microsofts big advantage. At anytime you can scale up or down your servers or services growing them or shrinking them to your needs."
"The product has helped in managing laptops during COVID, it is very useful to work from home, and due to the fact that it's all on the cloud, we don't have to be in the office to access and manage everything."
 

Cons

"Plugins aren't cheap (Mailchimp is $1.5/1000 emails)."
"I had an issue recently where my site was down intermittently for unknown reasons. I posted a ticket and 5 days have gone by without any resolution."
"The tool's configuration is complex."
"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."
"Heroku is pretty stable. We experience the occasional outages."
"But I recently got my account suspended because someone abused one of my apps."
"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."
"Its costing can be improved. There should be better cost management."
"At times, I still find the AWS dashboards simpler and more streamlined."
"They can add more documentation about the solution."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"Microsoft Azure can be pretty advanced and difficult to understand. I would like it to be simplified, and the licensing especially needs to be simplified."
"The solution should improve the shared cache."
"Microsoft Azure needs to be simplified to make it better understood for users."
"The price needs to be lower because they're competing with AWS."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."
"There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."
"The price of Heroku could be less expensive."
"The tool is free."
"Its price is very good."
"The pricing is fair and it was actually just reduced. My organization is paying approximately $100,000 annually with close to one thousand users. There are no additional fees."
"Make use of Azure pricing calculator and you will find out that Azure Is still more reasonable that the competition and do your research, when unclear speak with your MS support."
"It's an OPEX model, you pay as you go, or you can reserve funds."
"Microsoft Azure overall is an expensive solution."
"Azure is cheaper than solutions from other cloud vendors like AWS or Google."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The solution does require a license."
"The pricing is cheap."
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Comparison Review

it_user8586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 14, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business23
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business142
Midsize Enterprise54
Large Enterprise153
 

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