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Whatever your stack, it runs on Render.

Why businesses choose Render as an alternative to Heroku

Pricing

Cost reductions of over 50% after switching to Render

Reliability

Zero-downtime deploys and no unscheduled restarts

Flexibility

Configure up to 100 minutes for HTTP responses

Security

Advanced DDoS protection

Customer Support

Community and email support included

Heroku
Pricing

Prohibitively high costs for running apps in production

Reliability

Forceful restarts every 24 hours

Flexibility

30 second hard response timeout limit

Security

Advanced DDoS protection not included

Customer Support

$1000+/mo for direct support

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“Switching from Heroku to Render has resulted in much greater stability for our infrastructure, and the ability to work directly with a partner committed to supporting us and our customers. We're impressed with how quickly Render improves in response to customer feedback.”
Bill Mill, Engineer at ReadMe
2M+
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50B+
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50M+
Deploys

We've built Render to help developers and businesses avoid both the cost and inflexibility traps of legacy Platform-as-a-Service solutions like Heroku.

Our customers often tell us Render is what Heroku could have been. Render, a Heroku alternative, is built on a modern tech stack for the next generation of cutting-edge web apps. We offer superior performance, modern infrastructure, and enterprise-grade security out of the box—all at a fraction of the price, so you can focus on what sets your offering apart.