---
name: Heroku
domain: heroku.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform
descGrounded: 0.4
---

# Heroku

A platform-as-a-service provider selling managed container-based app deployment and scaling to developers.

**Route:** surfaced by the Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Heroku’s PaaS offers the same managed app deployment and scaling capability as Vercel, and a developer evaluating Vercel would shortlist Heroku for the same use case.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> a PaaS based on a managed container system

> Designed for effortless app deployment and scaling

> you can focus on building apps, not infrastructure

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