All the deploy-and-forget. A fraction of the bill.
Heroku invented the modern push-to-deploy workflow. In February 2026 it moved to a sustaining-engineering model focused on stability rather than new features. velixir keeps the deploy ergonomics, builds your source in any language, runs it on European infrastructure, and gives you far more memory per euro.
Why teams switch from Heroku to velixir
The specific reasons, not generic ones.
- More memory for the money. Heroku's Standard-2X is $50/mo for 1 GB; velixir's €6.95/mo (Starter, 1 vCPU / 1 GB).
- Always-on from €3.49/mo, and a free tier that sleeps when idle and wakes on the next request. Heroku has no free tier, and its $5 Eco dyno sleeps after 30 minutes.
- Any language, built for you from source, including .NET.
- First-party managed Postgres and Valkey on the same hourly bill, with point-in-time recovery on every database plan.
Side-by-side
Pricing checked October 2026. Specs reflect the closest equivalent plan in each direction.
| Dimension | velixir | Heroku |
|---|---|---|
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Smallest always-on tier
Basic dynos can't scale out; Standard starts at $25.
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€3.49/mo (Hobby, 0.5 vCPU / 512 MB) | $7/mo (Basic, 512 MB) |
|
1 GB workload
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€6.95/mo (Starter, 1 vCPU / 1 GB) | $50/mo (Standard-2X, 1 GB) |
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Language support
Push your source; velixir builds Node, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Java, Elixir, Rust and .NET.
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Any language | Buildpacks (officially supported languages, plus community ones) |
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Managed Postgres
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Built-in, from €4.95/mo | Heroku Postgres, from $5/mo (Essential-0) |
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Managed Redis / Valkey
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Valkey, built-in, from €2.45/mo (0.1 vCPU / 256 MB) | Heroku Key-Value Store, from $3/mo (25 MB) |
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Sign-up trial
velixir brought back a free scale-to-zero tier.
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Free tier (sleeps) plus first-month credit | No free tier |
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Pricing model
Both billed by usage; ours is in euros.
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Hourly EUR, no commitments | Metered in USD, capped monthly |
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Roll back a bad release
Both fast; ours is in the UI by default.
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One click from deploy history | `heroku releases:rollback` |
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Add-on marketplace
Heroku's strength, and a common source of bill creep.
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velixir-managed services (Postgres, Valkey) | Hundreds of partner add-ons, each billed separately |
Same workload, both sides
A small production app: a 1 GB web process that can scale out, a small Postgres database, and a small key-value store.
- Standard-2X dyno (1 GB)
- $50.00
- Heroku Postgres Essential-1 (10 GB storage)
- $9.00
- Key-Value Store Mini (25 MB)
- $3.00
- Per month
- $62.00
- Starter app (1 vCPU / 1 GB)
- €6.95
- Starter Postgres (0.25 vCPU / 512 MB)
- €4.95
- Starter Valkey (0.1 vCPU / 256 MB)
- €2.45
- Per month
- €14.35
At the ECB reference rate of €1 = $1.1206 (9 October 2026), velixir's €14.35 is about $16.08 a month: roughly 75% less than $62.00.
List prices before tax, for a month of continuous running. Heroku prices checked October 2026 on its own pricing pages; velixir prices are today's.
Migrating off Heroku? Talk to the founder, or deploy from the CLI in minutes.
Push your code via Git or CLI. velixir builds, publishes, and deploys it in EU Central, inside the EU, in under two minutes. No Docker, no YAML soup - and your first month's on us, up to €14.99.
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