Startups challenging Heroku

2 younger companies go after Heroku. Each says what it does differently; upvote the ones you’d switch to.

Railway vs Heroku

Deploy apps, databases and workers from a repo, with usage-based pricing.

Since 2020 Pay per use
Render vs Heroku

A cloud for web services, static sites, workers, cron jobs and databases.

Since 2019 Free plan + paid