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Their database prices are actually similar to AWS RDS Postgres now, and weren't that much higher before, especially with the nice features & interface you get in return.

Their dynos are insanely expensive though. A dedicated instance (VPS) with 2.5GB of RAM will set you back $250/month, while a similar EC2 instance will cost <$75/month.

It's hard to justify that the Heroku platform makes up for that $175/month/server difference compared to what AWS & co have nowadays.

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> A dedicated instance (VPS) with 2.5GB of RAM will set you back $250/month, while a similar EC2 instance will cost <$75/month.

To get actually more data on this, I’ll show a direct comparison – that same instance (Heroku Dyno Performance M) would cost you at

    Heroku $250/month
    GCP $24.27/month
    AWS LightSail $20/month
    DO $10/month
    VULTR $10/month
    Linode $10/month
    OVH $3.80/month
    Hetzner $3.67/month
    Scaleway $3.26/month

(Disclaimer: some of the services may differ in price due to different exchange rates and different taxation)

Just to add another data point--

AWS Fargate 1 VCPU, 3 GB RAM

  1 CPU = 1*0.00001406*3600*24*30 = $36.44
  3 RAM = =3*0.00000353*3600*24*30 = $27.45

Total = $63.89 + bandwidth (I believe dynos come with a generous bandwidth allocation included)

I've always had this impression that AWS puts downward pricing pressure on itself, and periodically reduces its pricing, and that Heroku just swallows up the difference never passing it on to their customers. Would you say that is accurate?

It seems all Startup and other Business moving to the cloud are all AWS.

Does anyone still uses Heroku?

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