Migrate from Heroku | Render
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Why businesses choose Render as an alternative to Heroku
| Feature | Heroku | Render |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Prohibitively high costs for running apps in production | Cost reductions of over 50% after switching to Render |
| Reliability | Forceful restarts every 24 hours | Zero-downtime deploys and no unscheduled restarts |
| Flexibility | 30 second hard response timeout limit | Configure up to 100 minutes for HTTP responses |
| Security | Advanced DDoS protection not included | Advanced DDoS protection |
| Customer Support | $1000+/mo for direct support | Community and email support included |
Whatever your stack, it runs on Render.
“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
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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.