3 ms·

> Now they added some very very cheap plans as well which is fantastic for them Can you share a link to their new plans? The pricing listed on their old page (

by nirui 4y ago

> Now they added some very very cheap plans as well which is fantastic for them Can you share a link to their new plans? The pricing listed on their old page (https://www.heroku.com/pricing https://www.heroku.com/pricing) still showing $7/mo as their cheapest option and it's already an overkill for my applications. In comparison, the cheapest option on fly.io is $1.94/mo (https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/ https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/). Note: I know $7 is the maximum cost, but by default their hobby tier app will not sleep, so I guess it still costs $7/mo to run in the end? Thanks!

jrochkind1 4y ago
I think they aren't in effect yet, but were announced in this blog post from last week: https://blog.heroku.com/new-low-cost-plans https://blog.heroku.com/new-low-cost-plans I am not sure if it will meet your expectations though, it doesn't really provide something much cheaper than 7/month or for an always-on production service. As I see it, the "eco" dyno is mainly a way to more easily save money with transient dynos (used for things other than production services) -- it does meet your concern about hobby dynos not sleeping though! There's also a new cheaper very limited postgres corresponding to the previous free postgres.
sleepyhead 4y ago
The new "cheap" plan is only two dollars less so I don't think it is an alternative for many. I will most likely move infrequently used apps to another platform.
- didgeoridoo 4y ago
  The new “eco” dynos work the same way as free do today — they draw down a shared pool of hours across multiple apps. So you could run tens (or hundreds) of infrequently used apps for a total of $5/month. That’s in contrast to the originally-announced plan, which had Hobby as the lowest cost option which costs $7 per dyno per month, which can get expensive with lots of rarely-used apps.
  - sleepyhead 4y ago
    Ah I missed the "shared across all of your eco dynos" part. Thanks for the info. That helps. I also like the new small Redis plan.
japhyr 4y ago
If you're running a project with a database, you need to take into account the cost of a Hobby dyno and a database add-on. I believe the cheapest Heroku Postgres plan is $9/mo. So, if you had a light-traffic, or demo, or staging project that was using the free dyno & postgres offering, you went from $0/mo to $16/mo. That's a big jump, depending on your use case. I'm all for well-restricted free offerings that let you try a platform; Heroku absolutely needed to change its plan. But if the cheapest web app with a db plan is $16/mo, people are going to look for something closer to $5/mo for their low-load deployments. If I'm wrong about any of this, I'd love to know.

by nirui 4y ago

jrochkind1 4y ago

I think they aren't in effect yet, but were announced in this blog post from last week: https://blog.heroku.com/new-low-cost-plans https://blog.heroku.com/new-low-cost-plans I am not sure if it will meet your expectations though, it doesn't really provide something much cheaper than 7/month or for an always-on production service. As I see it, the "eco" dyno is mainly a way to more easily save money with transient dynos (used for things other than production services) -- it does meet your concern about hobby dynos not sleeping though! There's also a new cheaper very limited postgres corresponding to the previous free postgres.

sleepyhead 4y ago

The new "cheap" plan is only two dollars less so I don't think it is an alternative for many. I will most likely move infrequently used apps to another platform.

didgeoridoo 4y ago
The new “eco” dynos work the same way as free do today — they draw down a shared pool of hours across multiple apps. So you could run tens (or hundreds) of infrequently used apps for a total of $5/month. That’s in contrast to the originally-announced plan, which had Hobby as the lowest cost option which costs $7 per dyno per month, which can get expensive with lots of rarely-used apps.
- sleepyhead 4y ago
  Ah I missed the "shared across all of your eco dynos" part. Thanks for the info. That helps. I also like the new small Redis plan.

japhyr 4y ago

If you're running a project with a database, you need to take into account the cost of a Hobby dyno and a database add-on. I believe the cheapest Heroku Postgres plan is $9/mo. So, if you had a light-traffic, or demo, or staging project that was using the free dyno & postgres offering, you went from $0/mo to $16/mo. That's a big jump, depending on your use case. I'm all for well-restricted free offerings that let you try a platform; Heroku absolutely needed to change its plan. But if the cheapest web app with a db plan is $16/mo, people are going to look for something closer to $5/mo for their low-load deployments. If I'm wrong about any of this, I'd love to know.