I disagree, any post about Heroku or any of the startups aiming to replace it (Fly or Railway for example) always mention it. From the perspective of someone looking to move to one of them from Heroku:

- Render is closest to what Heroku do, however being on their own hardware they can undercut Heroku who, by running on top of AWS, are both limited but apparently also don’t want to compete on price.

- Fly is both aiming to be a Heroku alternative but also have a really compelling use case of placing many smaller VMs closer to your customers. I believe they are heading towards a target of scale to zero on distributed VM regions for your app. They have some super clever ideas around distributed DB read replicas.

- Railway I think is somewhere in the middle, but I can’t understand their pricing… they say “you only pay for what you use” and the pricing page imply a that you can use fractional resources. It seems confusing as to if they have some sort of auto scale to zero or not. The docs are lacking on in the regard.

For me Fly I think are winning. Probably with Supabase or or Crunchy Data for the DB.