# meanands/heroku-free-alternatives

Free tier of Heroku Dynos, Postgres and Data for Redis will no longer be available after November 28, 2022. Let's find a list of services with a free plan that developers can use as an alternative to Heroku. Feel free to submit PRs and improve the list.

Repository: https://github.com/meanands/heroku-free-alternatives
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/heroku-free-alternatives
License Family: other
Topics: baas, good-first-issue, heroku, paas-services
Last push: 2025-05-30T03:31:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 43/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 24, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1414, "days_push": 460, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2118, forks 141 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:16.408245+00:00)

## What it is
A curated list of services offering free plans that developers can use as alternatives to Heroku after its free tier ended in November 2022. It catalogs PaaS hosting, databases, and deployment platforms with community-contributed entries.

## Use cases
- find a free alternative to heroku
- host my app for free after heroku removed its free tier
- compare free paas hosting providers
- find free postgres and redis hosting
- deploy a side project without paying for hosting

## When to choose
- you need to migrate off Heroku's discontinued free tier
- you want a community-maintained list of free-tier hosting options
- you're comparing PaaS providers for hobby projects

## When to avoid
- you need production-grade hosting with SLAs and paid support
- you want a tool rather than a reference list
- you need guaranteed up-to-date pricing information

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: deployment, cloud, self-hosted, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing, self-hosted, developer-tools, awesome-lists
- platform: cloud, self-hosted
- tags: heroku-alternatives, free-tier, paas, curated-list, hosting, devops

## Member repositories
- meanands/heroku-free-alternatives (main) score 43

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.408245+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:53:03.348012+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/meanands/heroku-free-alternatives (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:16.408245+00:00, sha aac933330285)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.