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The Lytms Index· Application hostingUS region · updated Aug 18, 2026
The Lytms Index / Application hosting / Heroku

Heroku

heroku.com↗

“The Cloud Application Platform For Building, Deploying, and Scaling Apps” — their own homepage · captured Aug 14, 2026

heroku.com
The Heroku homepage as it appeared on Aug 27, 2026
their homepage · captured Aug 27, 2026
Lytms Market Score · 0-100
74
#7 of 37 in application hosting.
No movement reading yet — that needs two comparable dated captures. · updated Aug 18, 2026

Where it stands

One line per signal, each the plain market fact behind the reading — never our number, and never a count of what we checked.

AI answersnamed by Claude, Gemini, Google's AI Mode and Google's AI Overview
Search resultsnot in the top results where buyers search
Buyer demand47,500 searches a month by name
“It simplifies the deployment of web apps, APIs, background workers, and static sites with predictable pricing. * Heroku: A long-standing platform, Heroku is a managed container platform that uses "dynos" to run applications in various programming languages.”
Gemini · Aug 18, 2026 · asked what to use for application hosting

What it publishes about price

Pay-as-you-go dyno pricing model with multiple tiers starting at $5/month; no bundled subscription tiers.

read from their own pricing page · captured Aug 14, 2026

What it has published over time

What this page publishes has changed between Jan 2025 and Aug 2026 — the captures below show how.

Jan 2025$2.08$5$5/mo$7/month$25/mo$25
Nov 2025 - Aug 2026$5$7$25$50$250$500

marked — not visible in the previous capture. Only arrivals are marked: a capture can miss a price that is still on the page, so a point that stops appearing is not something we can call a withdrawal.

the price points visible on heroku.com/pricing, from the public archive · a gap in the series is a gap, not a flat line

Compared with

Heroku vs Vercel→Heroku vs Netlify→Heroku vs Render→Alternatives to Heroku→

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The Lytms Index. "Heroku — how the market rates it." Lytms AI. Measured Aug 18, 2026. https://lytms.ai/best/app-hosting/heroku

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