Heroku vs Red Hat OpenShift vs Virtuozzo Application Platform comparison

Heroku and Red Hat are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Heroku is ranked #12 with an average rating of 8.7, while Red Hat is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3. Heroku holds a 3.4% mindshare in PSP, compared to Red Hat’s 11.6% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Heroku users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

Heroku

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87% willing to recommend

Red Hat OpenShift

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95% willing to recommend

Virtuozzo Application Platform

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Heroku, Red Hat OpenShift, and Virtuozzo Application Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the PaaS Clouds category, the mindshare of Heroku is 3.4%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift is 11.6%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Virtuozzo Application Platform is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

PaaS Clouds Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Red Hat OpenShift	11.6%
Heroku	3.4%
Virtuozzo Application Platform	0.8%
Other	84.2%

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Featured Reviews

Cristian-Molina

Senior Developer at Go Coeupas

Has a quick development cycle and continuous integration

The initial setup is straightforward. Heroku integrates well. You only have to push the code, and it automatically deploys the new version. Whether you have permission depends on the application. Currently, I have one application that I deploy myself. I rate the initial setup a nine out of ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy.

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Pratul Shukla

Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Adopting a flexible and efficient approach with noticeable improvements in operational costs and continued challenges in job management

Currently, one of the biggest challenges we face is with services and jobs. For spawning batches, although it has crons, it is not easy to integrate with enterprise systems such as Autosys. The entire company uses Autosys, but we are not able to integrate it effectively. We need intermediate servers to run OC utility commands and initiate the cron job. We have to do a lot of modifications to ensure our batches work properly. With physical or virtual servers, even in AWS, we are able to write and manage multiple jobs. Managing batches in Red Hat OpenShift has been a significant challenge. Integrating third parties is a challenge with Red Hat OpenShift. For example, with Elasticsearch, onboarding itself was difficult, running file beats and dealing with routing issues. It is not straightforward, especially since we have some components in AWS as. AWS has many capabilities that come out of the box and are easier to work with compared to Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat OpenShift's biggest disadvantage is they do not provide any private cloud setup where we can host on our site using their services. The main reason we went with Red Hat OpenShift was because it is a private cloud, and we have regulatory requirements that prevent us from using public cloud.

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Miguel Maloney Thompson

IC Director at a printing company with 11-50 employees

A scalable and stable solution that has good scalability and is easy to setup

It is a scalable solution. I have yet to have a scenario regarding automatic scale and if there's an increase in resource requirement or need. We have yet to have that scenario. We have yet to test that. The scalability was more than manually adjusting and increasing whatever I had to do. I rate it eight out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers."

"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."

"One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application."

"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."

"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."

"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."

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"I like OCP, and the management UI is better than the open-source ones."

"Security is also an important part of this solution. By default, things are running with limited privileges and securely confined to their own resources. This way, different users and projects can all use the same infrastructure."

"It is a stable platform."

"The most valuable feature of OpenShift is the security context constraint (SCC). The solution’s security throughout the stack is good. And security context constraints provide port-level security. It's a granular level of control, where you can give privileges to certain users to work on certain applications."

"OpenShift's superior dashboard is a notable strength, especially when compared to Kubernetes."

"We want to build a solution that can be deployable to any cloud because of client requirements and OpenShift allows us to do this."

"This solution is providing a platform with OOTB features that are difficult to build from scratch."

"The solution offers ease with which we can define how to run applications and configure them. It's much more convenient than creating a virtual machine and configuring application servers, making the process faster and simpler."

More Red Hat OpenShift pros

"The dynamic vertical scaling is a unique feature."

"Technical support from Jelastic is very good."

"The solution is scalable, and that is what we are looking at. There is no learning curve as we have not done much research."

"The advanced level of production-ready Docker hosting, one-click application deployment, and the truly flexible pricing."

"The control is valuable. It's really easy to use and you have good control of your solutions."

Cons

"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."

"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."

"The pricing could be improved because scaling the database becomes costly."

"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."

"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."

"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."

"The tool's configuration is complex."

"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."

More Heroku cons

"The interface could be simplified a bit more."

"Autoscaling is a very unique feature, but it could be useful to have more options based on traffic statistics, for example, via Prometheus. So, there should be more ready solutions to autoscale based on specific applications."

"The software-defined networking part of it caused us quite a bit of heartburn. We ran into a lot of problems with the difference between on-prem and cloud, where we had to make quite a number of modifications... They've since resolved it, so it's not really an issue anymore."

"The area for improvement is mostly in support for legacy applications."

"An enhancement to consider for the future might involve incorporating a comprehensive solution for CI/CD tailored specifically for OpenShift."

"Not a ten because it's not a standard solution and the endpoint protection user has to prepare with documentation or have training from other people. It's not easy to start because it's not like other solutions."

"We experienced issues around desktop security, that stopped us implementing a new feature that had been developed."

"Needs work on volume handling (although this is already better with GlusterFS). Security (SSSD) would also be an improvement."

More Red Hat OpenShift cons

"The backup functionality needs to be improved."

"For now, some customers are requesting support of Docker containers for Windows."

"Lacks better integration into enterprise storage products."

"The security layers also need to be improved because there is no clear layer or tier of security in the solution."

"The backup features need improvement, or rather it should be added, as I could not find it."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Heroku could be less expensive."

"There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."

"Its price is very good."

"I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."

"The tool is free."

"Depending on the extent of the product use, licenses are available for a range of time periods, and are renewable at the end of the period."

"We are currently using the open version, OKD. We plan to get the enterprise version in the future."

"The pricing is standard; the solution isn't particularly expensive or affordable."

"The cost is quite high."

"My company makes payments towards the licensing costs attached to OpenShift."

"The product's support is expensive. I would rate the tool's pricing an eight out of ten."

"We use the license-free version of Red Hat Openshift but we pay for the support."

"It's important to start small because the solution is scalable. We can build our cluster and look at the bundle option, not the external subscriptions. Talking to the people at Red Hat can save us money."

More Red Hat OpenShift pricing and cost advice

"Pricing for providers is revenue-shared based. Providers should invest in hardware to set up the Jelastic cluster."

"I would rate the cost 3 out of 5. There are additional costs other than licensing fees."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

28%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

Government

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	40

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Heroku?

I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards.

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What needs improvement with Heroku?

I don't like that the web server crashes every day, every 24 hours. The pricing could be improved because scaling the...

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What is your primary use case for Heroku?

We use the solution for web applications and web APIs.

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How does OpenShift compare with Amazon AWS?

Open Shift makes managing infrastructure easy because of self-healing and automatic scaling. There is also a wonderfu...

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Which would you recommend - Pivotal Cloud Foundry or OpenShift?

Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective....

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What do you like most about OpenShift?

OpenShift facilitates DevOps practices and improves CI/CD workflows in terms of stability compared to Jenkins.

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Overview

Established in 2007, Heroku is a cloud application platform providing a streamlined, efficient place for web app developers to create and deploy their applications. Heroku is designed to maximize developer productivity. With the entire web application development process available on the Herokucloud, creating and rolling out web apps has been made more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective than ever before.

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Red Hat OpenShift offers a robust, scalable platform with strong security and automation, suitable for container orchestration, application deployment, and microservices architecture.

Designed to modernize applications by transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-native environments, Red Hat OpenShift provides powerful CI/CD integration and Kubernetes compatibility. Its security features, multi-cloud support, and source-to-image functionality enhance deployment flexibility. While the GUI offers user-friendly navigation, users benefit from its cloud-agnostic nature and efficient lifecycle management. However, improvements are needed in documentation, configuration complexity, and integration with third-party platforms. Pricing and high resource demands can also be challenging for wider adoption.

What are the key features of Red Hat OpenShift?

Security: Comprehensive security features ensure safe deployments and operations.
Scalability: Auto-scaling and monitoring capabilities cater to high-demand environments.
CI/CD Integration: Seamless integration for efficient continuous deployment processes.
Cloud Compatibility: Supports multi-cloud and on-premise solutions with ease.
GUI: Simplifies platform management and enhances usability.

What benefits and ROI should users look for?

Improved Efficiency: Streamlined operations reduce time and resource investments.
Enhanced Flexibility: Adapt quickly to changing demands and environments.
Quick Deployment: Fast application deployment supports agile project timelines.
Robust Support: Access to dependable customer support services.

Red Hat OpenShift is strategically implemented for diverse industries focusing on container orchestration and application modernization. Organizations leverage it for migrating applications to cloud-native environments and managing CI/CD pipelines. Its functionality facilitates efficient resource management and microservices architecture adoption, supporting enterprise-level DevOps practices. Users employ it across cloud and on-premises platforms to drive performance improvements.

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