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Vendor: Heroku
4.2 out of 5
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Heroku mindshare

As of June 2025, the mindshare of Heroku in the PaaS Clouds category stands at 3.2%, up from 2.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Top industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
12%
Educational Organization
9%
Comms Service Provider
7%
University
7%
Real Estate/Law Firm
6%
Hospitality Company
5%
Healthcare Company
4%
Energy/Utilities Company
4%
Government
3%
Manufacturing Company
3%
Consumer Goods Company
3%
Performing Arts
3%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Construction Company
2%
Insurance Company
2%
Legal Firm
2%
Non Profit
2%
Outsourcing Company
2%
Retailer
2%
Transportation Company
1%
Media Company
1%
Sports Company
1%
Logistics Company
1%
Individual & Family Service
1%
 

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Cristian-Molina - PeerSpot user
Senior Developer at Go Coeupas
Verified user of Heroku
Sep 25, 2024
Has a quick development cycle and continuous integration

Pros

"The product is stable."

Cons

"The pricing could be improved because scaling the database becomes costly. "
Faizan Haider - PeerSpot user
Senior Software Engineer at Aldaim Solutions
Verified user of Heroku
May 18, 2024
Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases

Pros

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

Cons

"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."
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JH
Senior Software Engineer at OmniTier Inc
Verified user of Heroku
Feb 14, 2024
Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle

Pros

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

Cons

"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. "
MM
Director at Imaginedone
Verified user of Heroku
Aug 29, 2022
A scalable solution that is easy to deploy and maintain and makes application deployment easy and straightforward

Pros

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

Cons

"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."
Robert Urech - PeerSpot user
Director for Business Development at LIVING CONSULTORIA
Verified user of Heroku
Feb 26, 2022
Product version discussed: Heroku-20
Easy to configure and use, easily expandable with a variety of plugins, and helpful technical support

Pros

"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."

Cons

"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."
PeerSpot user
Head Of Engineering at a sports company with 11-50 employees
Verified user of Heroku
Oct 28, 2020
An easy-to-use container-based cloud Platform

Pros

"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS. "

Cons

"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more. "
Perez  Cato - PeerSpot user
Software Engineer at Infosource Solutions
Verified user of Heroku
Aug 22, 2023
Helps in development environment but configuration is complex

Pros

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

Cons

"The tool's configuration is complex. "
DD
Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of Heroku
Jan 25, 2023
Convenient and easy to use; great for GitHub integrations

Pros

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

Cons

"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."