Heroku
The original application platform-as-a-service, now part of Salesforce, running apps in managed containers called dynos with a large first-party and third-party add-on catalog.
How Claude rates Heroku.
Each score below is the model's own, on the rubric it wrote for that list, from what it already knows about Heroku. Nothing here is edited by us.
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#3 this week, scoring 7.8 out of 10. Best for Teams that prioritize stability and extensive add-on ecosystem over cost, or enterprises already in Salesforce ecosystem.
- Deployment simplicity 9
- Pioneered git push deployment with buildpacks that still work flawlessly for standard frameworks.
- Database & stateful services 9
- Heroku Postgres is excellent with automated backups, follower databases, and dataclips for analytics.
- Pricing predictability 5
- Pricing is predictable but expensive—dyno and add-on costs add up quickly compared to alternatives.
- Performance & reliability 8
- Very reliable with excellent uptime track record, though performance-per-dollar lags modern competitors.
- Developer experience 7
- Solid CLI and tooling but feels dated; dashboard and logging haven't evolved much in recent years.
- Portability & lock-in 7
- Standard PostgreSQL and twelve-factor app principles make migration possible, though buildpack dependencies exist.
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What Heroku's website sends to your browser.
Scanned 2026-08-25. Grade headers A, scoring 90 out of 100.
This is one narrow, automated check of the HTTP response headers on the vendor's own website. It says nothing about how the product itself is built, how it stores your data, or whether it has ever been audited. A good grade here is a small signal that somebody was paying attention.