--- title: An Update on Heroku | daily.dev description: Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model, focusing on stability, security, and reliability rather than new features. Existing customers can... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/an-update-on-heroku-ajscvw9zc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: An Update on Heroku | daily.dev og:description: Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model, focusing on stability, security, and reliability rather than new features. Existing customers can... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/an-update-on-heroku-ajscvw9zc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/AJSCVw9ZC.png og:image:alt: An Update on Heroku og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # An Update on Heroku **[Heroku](https://daily.dev/sources/heroku)** · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model, focusing on stability, security, and reliability rather than new features. Existing customers can continue using the platform with no changes to pricing or service. Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers, though existing contracts will be honored. The shift allows the parent company to focus investments on AI and other strategic areas. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@bobbyiliev** · 1 upvotes > That's pretty huge. But kind of saw it coming, good time to move your apps to the DigitalOcean App Platform. **@alexdo** · 0 upvotes > DO's App Platform seems to be an alternative. This comes as no surprise to me. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Heroku future in doubt as Salesforce freezes features to focus on AI](https://daily.dev/posts/heroku-future-in-doubt-as-salesforce-freezes-features-to-focus-on-ai-emjhzgput) · DEVCLASS · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Heroku: What’s Next](https://daily.dev/posts/heroku-what-s-next-aqdbswcjr) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Dear Heroku: Uhh... 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