Heroku

heroku.com · Compute, Egress and tunnels · 3 records · JSON

Heroku Open Source ComputecaveatcardcardDwrite-gated
Heroku ComputepaidcardcardDwrite-gated
Heroku Egress and tunnelspaidcardcardDvolume-quota

Heroku Open Source Compute

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www.heroku.com/open-source-credit-program/ · platform host · compute/heroku-open-source · JSON · compare

Free tier	Quoted: 'one year of platform credits to qualifying Open Source Software projects hosted on Heroku', paid as 'a set credit allocation every month for 12 months', usable on 'Heroku Dynos, Heroku Postgres, and Heroku Key-Value Store'. Salesforce 'will determine the credit allocation amount based on project need and use', so no figure is published. unit none; metered on wall-clock; recurring-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	card a card is required before applying: the programme page states the account must be verified with a credit or debit card before applying and any monthly overage bills that card, so a debit card is accepted alongside credit. No hold or authorisation amount is stated, whether prepaid cards are accepted is not stated, and the programme adds a second gate — "you must be a maintainer on the open source software project and its supporting infra must run or intend to run on Heroku"
Limits	write-gated The account must be verified with a credit or debit card before applying and any monthly overage bills the card; the allocation is set by Salesforce and unused credit is forfeited monthly. source The account must be verified with a credit or debit card before applying and any monthly overage bills the card; the allocation is set by Salesforce and unused credit is forfeited monthly.
Binding	write-gated The account must be verified with a credit or debit card before applying and any monthly overage bills the card; the allocation is set by Salesforce and unused credit is forfeited monthly.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	Dynos plus Postgres plus Key-Value store on one monthly allocation covers a small always-on service with state, which is the piece most free student and OSS tiers leave out: a database that survives the free tier ending.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The gate that matters is directional: the project must run or intend to run on Heroku, so this does not pay for a workload hosted elsewhere. Heroku still sells dynos, so this is a live programme rather than a legacy one. Amount is null by design, not by omission: the terms hand the allocation to Salesforce.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	www.heroku.com/open-source-credit-program/	quoted the 12-month monthly allocation, the covered products, 'Any unused portion of the monthly credit allocation is forfeited', the card-verification requirement, the monthly review cadence, and 'The program is open people globally'
2026-10-22	www.heroku.com/open-source-credit-program/	quoted 'you must be a maintainer on the open source software project and its supporting infra must run or intend to run on Heroku'

More fields (1)

{
 "wave2": {
  "class": "vendor-oss-credits",
  "free_tier_kind": "recurring-credit",
  "shape": null
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated

Heroku Compute

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www.heroku.com/pricing/ · platform host · compute/heroku · JSON · compare

Free tier	no free dyno: the pricing page prices dynos as containers with no USD 0 row; the only free lane the corpus found is the Student Developer Pack, which needs degree enrolment unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable: nothing free
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated on the pricing page read today
Identity	card a card for a paid dyno; the Student Developer Pack alternative requires enrolment in a degree- or diploma-granting programme
Limits	write-gated no free dyno on the pricing page source not stated
Binding	write-gated there is no free tier to exhaust.
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	not stated
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	The corpus verdict was 'fails-identity' on the grounds that the student pack is gated by enrolment. The accurate verdict for the free-tier question is paid-only: there is no free dyno at any identity level, and the student pack is a credit programme, not a tier. This is a verdict change the parent should carry into history.
Evidence rung	documented the pricing page was read today and lists dynos, data services and AI without a free row; prices render dynamically and are not quoted
Checked	2026-10-25 (live); stale on 2026-11-24

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	www.heroku.com/pricing/	not published
2026-10-22	www.heroku.com/pricing/	'Seamlessly sync data between Heroku Postgres and Salesforce with Heroku Connect. Start free with the Demo Edition.' quoted; the page carries no free dyno and no free tier
2026-10-22	www.heroku.com/github-students/	'If you are registered with the GitHub Student Developer Pack, you are eligible to receive platform credits worth $13 per month for 24 months (for a total value of $312)', quoted; the Gate is the Student Developer Pack, whose own requirements state the applicant must be 'enrolled in a degree- or diploma-granting program' and 'provide documents that prove your current student status'
2026-10-24	www.heroku.com/pricing/	quoted: 'Dynos are the heart of every Heroku app—lightweight, isolated containers that handle your code, dependencies, and scaling', with no free plan or free dyno row on the page

More fields (18)

{
 "talaria_m10h_usd": 67.5,
 "talaria_m24h_usd": 155.0,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": null,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": null,
 "billing_model": "monthly",
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": null,
  "ram_gib": null,
  "disk_gib": null,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": null,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "a dyno runs until stopped or scaled to zero"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "none",
 "granularity": {
  "min_billed_s": 0,
  "rounding_s": null
 },
 "wave2": {
  "verdict_change": "qualifies-with-caveat -> fails-identity on 2026-10-22"
 },
 "term": "monthly",
 "m10h_usd": null,
 "m24h_usd": null,
 "price_arithmetic": "not computed: dyno prices render through a client-side widget and no figure appears in the text read"
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.chaining not-stated
$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.evidence[0].proved process
$.extras.keep_rate_basis process
$.extras.price_note process
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note not-stated
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.tooling not-stated

Corrections

2026-10-22 Three compute lanes were recorded paid-only when the free lane existed behind an institution

Heroku Egress and tunnels

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devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/2502 · paas l4 port · egress/heroku · JSON · compare

Free tier	As of November 28th, 2022, Heroku is no longer offering free dynos, hobby-dev Heroku Postgres, or hobby-dev Heroku Data for Redis plans. unit none; metered on none
Price	USD 0
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	No free tier since 2022-11-28; the cheapest dyno is Eco, a paid plan.; ingress: http-only free_allowance: No free tier since 2022-11-28; the cheapest dyno is Eco, a paid plan.
Identity	card A paid account with a payment method; free dynos were withdrawn.
Limits	volume-quota no free dynos since 2022-11-28 source
Binding	volume-quota Nothing is provisionable without payment, so no byte is ever free.
Interface	cli, git Heroku CLI, git push deploys, and the Platform API.
Tooling	Heroku CLI and git push.
Composes with	Not free; no endpoint.
Reliability	None applicable; no free dyno exists.
Notes	Kept because a reader will ask. Four years after the withdrawal the free tier has not returned.
Evidence rung	documented The changelog page body was read from the broker's index of that URL, because a direct render returned the navigation only; the sentence is first-party and dated 2022-11-28.
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers	`$.price_per_tb_month` price-per-tb USD0.0 TB / month

Evidence (1)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-23	devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/2502	"As of November 28th, 2022, Heroku is no longer offering free dynos"; existing free dynos converted to eco and scaled to 0

More fields (7)

{
 "wg_path": "none",
 "wg_detail": "No UDP path at any price on the public runtime; dynos receive HTTP through the router, and raw TCP is a Private Spaces feature.",
 "ingress": "http-only",
 "volume_tib_month": 0,
 "volume_stated": "No free tier since 2022-11-28; the cheapest dyno is Eco, a paid plan.",
 "bytes_transit": "no",
 "transit_note": "Heroku's router terminates HTTP."
}

Unknown or withheld values (2)

$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.retention.stated not-applicable