Heroku Free Tier was the default zero-cost deployment path for countless prototypes, student projects, demos, bots, and small web apps. Its importance is historical: “push to Heroku” became a simple deployment habit long before today’s serverless and cloud-platform alternatives were as accessible.
Heroku’s own 2022 announcement phased out free dynos, free Heroku Postgres, and free Heroku Data for Redis. The current Heroku pricing and Eco dyno documentation describe paid successor paths, so the page should not imply that a comparable no-cost Heroku plan still exists.
Readers looking for a replacement should compare paid Heroku Eco or Basic-style plans against modern free or low-cost alternatives such as Render, Fly.io, Railway, Vercel, Netlify, and cloud-provider free credits. Keep this page focused on migration context, cost expectations, and why the old free-tier workflow no longer applies.
