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Heroku vs AWS Lambda Comparison (2026)

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AWS Lambda

Overview

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) designed for developers and teams to build, deliver, monitor, and scale modern apps. Heroku offers integrated tools, services, and workflows to help organizations of all sizes to maximize individual and team productivity, and deliver apps more quickly.

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing platform that helps businesses run codes based on triggered events and facilitate application development processes. Supervisors can add custom logic to AWS resources, upload codes, create functions, and select memory, timeout period, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role according to requirements.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.6

305

196

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

84%

would recommend this app

4.6

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

89%

would recommend this app

Pros

“You simply have your app running locally, Now you don’t want to reinstall everything on a server you manage.”

Edgar H.

Business owner and programmer

“With a simple website with a database and some redis, you’ll probably pay 80€/month”

Edgar H.

Business owner and programmer

“Its pricing model is based on the amount of resources (e.g. memory, CPU) used by your application, and can quickly add up as your application grows and scales.”

Efezino U.

Software Developer

Pros

“Lambda do not require server provisioning, as AWS provides the infra needed, also Lambda scalability is great, the application can have few requests, or thousands per second and it would behave well.”

Flavio M.

Senior QA Analyst

“First best thing about AWS lambda is that provide serverless architecture that means there is no need to manage server and architecture all these things are handle by AWS lambda”

Sahil M.

Software developer

“It allows you to run code without provisioning or managing server.”

Ankush P.

Cosultant

Cons

“Had issues in deploying web apps that occurred bugs and tracking logs could use some improvements.”

Irvin D.

Software Developer

“I really loved the hobby plan that Heroku had but it seems that now it's not available.”

Vasilis K.

Web Developer

“It's really expensive.”

Vinicius L.

Software Engineer

Cons

“One bad thing about AWS lambda is that when you call or invoke the function first time or after period of time then its take too much time to execute.”

Sahil M.

Software developer

“it has some limitations and challenges that can be frustrating, especially for large-scale or complex applications”

Iddy H.

Solution Architect

“Do be careful of heavy applications, I find the cost grows the fastest with a lambda that has high memory demands more than increasing the number of lambda instances.”