DigitalOcean vs Heroku
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| DigitalOcean | Heroku | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | One integrated platform, silicon to agent, with economics that improve as you scale. digitalocean.com | The Cloud Application Platform For Building, Deploying, and Scaling Apps heroku.com |
| Starting at | Not observed | Not observed |
| Deployment | Not observed | PaaS heroku.com |
| Integrations | Claude Code, Codex CLI, CrewAI, Hermes, LangGraph, MCP, OpenCode, GitHub, Let’s Encrypt, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, QM, by YC Labs, Codex Universal, Docker, WHM® for AlmaLinux 9, cPanel, Omarchy, Coolify, Plesk (AlmaLinux), WordPress, RabbitMQ, n8n, OpenLiteSpeed WordPress, Easypanel, Simple Observability, WordPress-WooCommerce, 3CX, Supabase, SnapShooter, GitLab Enterprise Edition, Anaconda, Jitsi Server, Appwrite, Minecraft: Java Edition Server, SimpleBackups, NodeJS, Grafana, Apache Kafka, Cloudron, Odoo ERP, 360 Monitoring, Logtail, Better Uptime, Netmaker, PocketBase, MEAN, Flask digitalocean.com | Data Cloud, Salesforce CRM, Heroku Postgres, Apache Kafka on Heroku, Heroku Connect, Heroku Key-Value Store, Judoscale Universal Autoscaler, Heroku Scheduler, Cloudinary - Image and Video Management, Knapsack Pro, DocRaptor heroku.com |
| Compliance | GDPR, SOC 2 digitalocean.com | HIPAA heroku.com |
| Free plan | Yes digitalocean.com | Not observed |
| Plans | App Platform, Droplets, Kubernetes, Functions, Spaces digitalocean.com | Eco, dyno-4c-8gb heroku.com |
| Models supported | Llama, Qwen digitalocean.com | Not observed |
| Pricing basis | Scalable, pay-as-you-go hosting for digital businesses digitalocean.com | Not observed |
Where they differ
- DigitalOcean’s pages state a free plan; AirStack has not found that on Heroku’s pages.
- DigitalOcean claims GDPR on its own pages; Heroku’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- Heroku claims HIPAA on its own pages; DigitalOcean’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- DigitalOcean claims SOC 2 on its own pages; Heroku’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
Prices are list prices as written on each pricing page; check them before you buy. Nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation.