Elastic 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.
| Elastic | Heroku | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Elastic is a technology company. elastic.co | The Cloud Application Platform For Building, Deploying, and Scaling Apps heroku.com |
| Starting at | Not observed | Not observed |
| Platforms | Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows, macOS, AWS, Alibaba, Azure, GCP, Google Cloud elastic.co | Not observed |
| Deployment | Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Serverless, self-managed, on-premises, Self-managed Elasticsearch, Hosted, Serverless elastic.co | PaaS heroku.com |
| Integrations | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, BigQuery, GKE, applications, cloud-native infrastructure, content repositories, security activity and context elastic.co | 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 | HIPAA, SOC 2 elastic.co | HIPAA heroku.com |
| Plans | Limited, Base, Enhanced, Premium, Enterprise, Platinum elastic.co | Eco, dyno-4c-8gb heroku.com |
| Open source | Yes elastic.co | Not observed |
| Pricing basis | Resource based pricing elastic.co | Not observed |
Where they differ
- Elastic’s pages state that it is open source; AirStack has not found that on Heroku’s pages.
- Elastic 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.