Switching to Platform.sh can help IT/DevOps organizations drive 219% ROI
Organizations, the ultimate way to manage your users and projects
It's time to find a Heroku alternative
Heroku might have been the original choice in the Platform-as-a-Service industry. But, Platform.sh is the ultimate choice today. Platform.sh succeeds where Heroku fails - scale your work beyond the first project and the first user effortlessly. We do it better. We are the quality Heroku alternative.
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Immediate environments
Provision new projects and as many new environments as you need in minutes, not hours. Enjoy a fully integrated CI pipeline to build your site on the fly. From composer dependencies to compilation.
Powerful platform engineering
Leverage the true power of the cloud with self-serve platform engineering. With flexible workflows, extensive CI/CD capabilities, and auto-scaling, you can deliver flawless web applications.
Effortless deployment
A deployment process that does it all. Application architecture is defined in the YAML configuration while actions and environments are triggered by and sync with Git automatically.
Live and automated
Get a live view of everything that is happening in every environment, from crons to deployments. Enjoy automated provisioning of TLS certificates and backups for all environments.
Why choose Platform.sh over Heroku
Modern organizations need a better solution to meet customer demands. Platform.sh is the modern PaaS for organizations to build, run, and scale websites and web applications.
Secure Git Integrations
Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket Integration
Available clouds for deployments
120+ locations over 5 cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Orange, OVH) and hundreds of availability zones
Available Managed Data Services
Postgres, Redis, Kafka, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Solr, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Varnish, Network-Storage, Vault KMS, Headless Chrome, InfluxDB
Persistent Storage
Highly available Local Storage, Network Storage
Dev/Stage/Preview environments
Instant & Automated creation of Preview Environments, with all services supported
Logs
Trimmed at 100 MB per log file
Build Timeout
1 hour
Source operations - autoupdate code
Enterprise plan and above
Decoupled and Microservices architectures
Deploy several apps inside a single project (less $$)
All at a lower cost than Heroku
Comparison based on plans for a 500,000 monthly pageviews site.
Platform.sh
Professional Medium
$27
$27
$594
Heroku
Standard & Performance
$90
$360
$1715
A minimal app + Redis + Postgres
Platform.sh
Professional Medium
$27
Heroku
Standard & Performance
$90
A minimal app + Redis + Postgres + 3 concurrent development environments
Platform.sh
Professional Medium
$27
Heroku
Standard & Performance
$360
Mission-critical application, Postgres, Redis cache, 3 Preview Environments for features testing and for a full Dev > Stage > Production process
Platform.sh
Professional Medium
$594
Heroku
Standard & Performance
$1715
The Platform.sh Enterprise pricing starts at $1,250 per month which includes 99.99% SLAs with uptime guarantees and 24/7 support from our team.
With Platform.sh, you also get
More autonomy, more control
Our PaaS implementation gives you everything you need to manage your projects, without waiting for your ticket to get answered.
With infrastructure as code, you can add and configure applications and services (databases, caches, etc.) with a few lines in our YAML configuration, in seconds.
Upgrade your runtime to the latest stable version as soon as they release, and update your dependencies whenever you want, or do it automatically via Automated Code updates.
Highly scalable & available
Platform.sh can provide 99.99% high-availability guarantees for mission-critical sites, as well as an SLA of less than an hour for urgent tickets.
Platform.sh runs thousands of ecommerce sites and has extensive experience managing mission-critical applications. We’ve designed triple-redundant architecture to ensure even transactional sites are fault-tolerant.
Platform.sh can also scale up any site as needed, without downtime, when there’s a surge of traffic.
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Security
We take security and compliance seriously. For some countries and companies, that means hosting locally, too. Not only are we SOC 2 certified, we’re compliant with the CASL in Canada and with Germany’s BDSG and strict data locality and access rules.
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Choice is good — that's why Platform.sh is multicloud
Heroku works with only a single IaaS partner.
But not Platform.sh. We make it easy to use the IaaS provider that works best for your business, whether your choice is based on data locality for compliance, getting your application as close to your end users as possible, or simply preference.
Learn moreYou choose where you want to run your applications
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