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GitHub vs Heroku Comparison (2026)

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Overview

GitHub is a place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers, helping individuals and teams to write faster, better code

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.

  • 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
  • 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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Pricing

Starting from

4

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

7

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.8

6.2K

5

4

3

2

1

4.8K

1.2K

98

7

2

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
92%
would recommend this app

4.6

305

5

4

3

2

1

196

95

7

2

5

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
84%
would recommend this app

Pros

“We run pull requests through it daily for our backend services, and the review flow (inline comments, suggested changes, required approvals before merge) makes it easy to keep code quality high even when we're shipping fast.”
KS

Kaynan S.

Software Engineer

“The platform improves visibility into code changes, simplifies collaboration between technical teams, and helps ensure deployments are organized and traceable.”
DR

Dave R.

Manager

“GitHub provides a centralized platform for version control, pull requests, code reviews, issue tracking, and CI/CD automation, making the entire software development lifecycle more efficient.”
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Himanshu G.

AI Engineer

Pros

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

Edgar H.

Business owner and programmer

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

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.”
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Efezino U.

Software Developer

Cons

“GitHub has tried to simplify things over the years, but it still lacks a genuinely user-friendly, abstracted environment for non-developers who just need to collaborate on data or check progress.”
MC

Mark C.

Membership Secretary, Trustee and Designer

“The learning curve can be pretty steep if you’re new to Git concepts like rebasing or complex conflict resolution.”
BR

Brendan R.

Workshop Manager

Cons

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

Software Developer

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

Web Developer

“It's really expensive.”
VL

Vinicius L.

Software Engineer

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review3 days ago
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  • Last review6 months ago

Key features

  • Total features66
  • @mentions
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Application Security
  • Authentication
  • Automated Testing
  • Backlog Management
  • Bug Tracking
  • Bug/Issue Capture
  • Cloud Computing
  • Code Development
  • Code Editing
  • Code Review
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Collaborative Development
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Compatibility Testing
  • Configuration Management
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Custom Development
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Security
  • Debugging
  • Deployment Management
  • Feedback Management
  • File Sharing
  • For Developers
  • For Small Businesses
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Kanban Board
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Load Testing
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile App
  • Mobile Development
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Language Scanning
  • Multiple Programming Languages Supported
  • Multiple Projects
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Tracking
  • Projections
  • Quality Assurance
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Release Management
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Repository Management
  • Request Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Single Sign On
  • Software Development
  • Source Control
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Static Analysis
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Team Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Version Control
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web App Development
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Wiki
  • Total features28
  • @mentions
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Application Security
  • Authentication
  • Automated Testing
  • Backlog Management
  • Bug Tracking
  • Bug/Issue Capture
  • Cloud Computing
  • Code Development
  • Code Editing
  • Code Review
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Collaborative Development
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Compatibility Testing
  • Configuration Management
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Custom Development
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Security
  • Debugging
  • Deployment Management
  • Feedback Management
  • File Sharing
  • For Developers
  • For Small Businesses
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Kanban Board
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Load Testing
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile App
  • Mobile Development
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Language Scanning
  • Multiple Programming Languages Supported
  • Multiple Projects
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Tracking
  • Projections
  • Quality Assurance
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Release Management
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Repository Management
  • Request Management
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Single Sign On
  • Software Development
  • Source Control
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Static Analysis
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Team Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Version Control
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web App Development
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Wiki

Integrations

  • Total integrations15
  • CircleCI
  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Heroku
  • JIRA Service Management
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Netlify
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Vercel
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Total integrations3
  • CircleCI
  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Heroku
  • JIRA Service Management
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Netlify
  • Pivotal Tracker
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Vercel
  • Visual Studio Code