Heroku vs Vercel
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.
| Heroku | Vercel | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | The Cloud Application Platform For Building, Deploying, and Scaling Apps heroku.com | Agentic Infrastructure vercel.com |
| Starting at | Not observed | $20 Pro / month free plan listed |
| Deployment | PaaS heroku.com | Not observed |
| Integrations | 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 | Endform, Tigris, Xata, AWS, AgentMail, Algolia, AssistLoop, Auth0, Autonoma AI, Braintrust, Browserbase, Chatbase, Checkly, Clerk, CodeRabbit, Convex, Corridor, Dash0, Deep Infra, Descope, Exa, Firecrawl, GrowthBook, Inngest, KERNEL, LaunchDarkly, Mem0, Mixedbread, MongoDB Atlas, MotherDuck, Mux, Neon, Nile, Parallel Web Systems, PostHog, Prisma Postgres, Redis, Resend, Rollbar, Sanity, Sentry, Shopify, Sourcery, Statsig, Stripe, Supabase, Turso Cloud, Upstash, cubic, fal vercel.com |
| Compliance | HIPAA heroku.com | GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2 vercel.com |
| Free plan | Not observed | Yes vercel.com |
| Plans | Eco, dyno-4c-8gb heroku.com | Enterprise, Hobby, Pro vercel.com |
| Customers (their claim) | Not observed | Notion powers millions of agent conversations daily on Vercel. vercel.com |
Where they differ
- Vercel’s pages state a free plan; AirStack has not found that on Heroku’s pages.
- Vercel claims GDPR on its own pages; Heroku’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- Vercel claims ISO 27001 on its own pages; Heroku’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
- Vercel 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.