Update November 7th, 2022: These plans are now generally available. Take a look at our launch announcement post for more information on migration.
When we announced Heroku’s Next Chapter last month, we received a lot of feedback from our customers. One of the things that stood out was interest in a middle ground between our retired Heroku free plan and our current Hobby dyno and data plans, a lower-cost option. We’ve also fielded requests to keep a dyno that “sleeps” when not receiving requests, which is an integral feature for non-production apps.
Eco Dynos: Free While Sleeping
With that in mind, we’re thrilled to announce our new Eco Dynos plan, which will cost $5 for 1,000 compute hours a month, shared across all of your eco dynos. We are calling these dynos Eco because they sleep after 30 minutes of no web traffic and only consume hours when active, so they are economical for you.
Having dynos sleep while not in use is also friendly to our environment by reducing power usage. When Eco dynos are available, you’ll be able to use a one-click conversion of all your free dynos to eco, saving you time and clicks!
Eco dynos are ideal replacement for the Heroko free plans. They provide cheap cloud hosting for personal projects and small applications that don’t benefit from constant uptime. Eco dynos support up to two process types.
New Low-Cost Database Plans
We also heard your feedback to provide a lower-cost data offering. We’re very excited to announce new Mini plans for Heroku Postgres ($5/month) and Heroku Key-Value Store (25 MB, $3/month).
Our new plans will be available before we end our Heroku free plans on November 28, 2022. We will provide more information about upgrades and any steps you need to take in early November. See our FAQ for more info.
Introducing Basic Dynos
We’re also renaming our existing Hobby plans to Basic. This change is in name only and was done to indicate the flexibility and production-ready power of these small-but-reliable plans. Basic dynos don’t sleep. They are always on and they support up to ten process types.
We want to thank the passionate developer community that continues to stick with us as we make hard but necessary decisions for our business, and hope that you’ll continue to offer feedback that we can integrate into our public roadmap.
Heroku Pricing for Low-Cost Dynos
| Product Plan | Cost | Features |
|---|---|---|
| Eco Dynos | $5 for 1000 dyno hours/month | Ideal for experimenting in a limited sandbox. Dynos sleep during inactivity and don't consume hours while sleeping. |
| Basic (formerly Hobby) Dynos | ~$0.01 per hour, up to $7/month | Perfect for small-scale personal projects and apps that don't need scaling. |
| Essential 0 Postgres | ~$0.007 per hour, $5/month | No row limit, 1GB of storage |
| Essential 1 (formerly Hobby-Basic) Postgres | ~$0.012 per hour, up to $9/month | No row limit, 10 GB of storage |
| Mini Heroku Key-Value Store | ~$0.004 per hour, $3/month | 25 MB of storage |
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