--- title: Heroku is Shutting Down: Top Alternatives for Your Apps... description: Heroku announced it's entering maintenance mode with no new features or enterprise contracts for new customers. The article compares six alternatives:... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/smffrov84 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Heroku is Shutting Down: Top Alternatives for Your Apps in 2026 | daily.dev og:description: Heroku announced it's entering maintenance mode with no new features or enterprise contracts for new customers. The article compares six alternatives:... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/smffrov84 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/smfFrov84.png og:image:alt: Post cover image 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. # Heroku is Shutting Down: Top Alternatives for Your Apps in 2026 **[Bobby Iliev](https://daily.dev/sources/9adj6fgmy)** · [@bobbyiliev](https://daily.dev/bobbyiliev) · 40 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Heroku announced it's entering maintenance mode with no new features or enterprise contracts for new customers. The article compares six alternatives: DigitalOcean App Platform (recommended for smoothest transition), Railway (fastest deploys for indie developers), Render (diverse workloads), Fly.io (edge deployment for low latency), AWS App Runner (AWS ecosystem integration), and Google Cloud Run (serverless with scale-to-zero). Includes a migration checklist covering data export, environment variables, add-ons, DNS updates, and testing. ## 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. **@dash15tonon** · 3 upvotes > @bobbyiliev RIP Heroku !!! **@bobbyiliev** · 1 upvotes > Agree with this one: > > DigitalOcean App Platform recommended for smoothest transition **@corem96** · 0 upvotes > It's a shame... I will miss the platform, so many great apps were running on Heroku **@draqun** · 0 upvotes > What is the source of this information? Cannot find it. Heroku still works. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Top Heroku Alternatives for Deployment in 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/top-heroku-alternatives-for-deployment-in-2026-m7xqbwbvk) · freeCodeCamp · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Heroku: What’s Next](https://daily.dev/posts/heroku-what-s-next-aqdbswcjr) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [It's time to leave Heroku](https://daily.dev/posts/it-s-time-to-leave-heroku-nxc10pshn) · Planet Python · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Time to Migrate From Heroku - FastRuby.io](https://daily.dev/posts/time-to-migrate-from-heroku---fastruby-io-pw1diq44d) · RUBYLAND · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops), [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#heroku](https://daily.dev/tags/heroku) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/smffrov84) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/smffrov84","headline":"Heroku is Shutting Down: Top Alternatives for Your Apps in 2026","text":"Shared: Heroku is Shutting Down: Top Alternatives for Your Apps in 2026","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/smffrov84","datePublished":"2026-02-09T18:01:18.795Z","dateModified":"2026-02-09T18:01:56.968Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Bobby Iliev","url":"https://daily.dev/bobbyiliev","image":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/21223421?v=4","description":"DevOps, DevEx, cloud & open source\n","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Materialize","logo":"https://res.cloudinary.com/daily-now/image/upload/s--4mL2CrlK--/f_auto/v1725263959/companies/materialize"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":83240}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--1KxV4ohY--/f_auto/v1722860400/public/Placeholder%2007","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":40},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":6}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/Z8Vx8wxVe"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"@bobbyiliev RIP Heroku !!!","datePublished":"2026-02-18T00:20:27.466Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/smfFrov84#c-ouDPWMzzr","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"David15tonon","url":"https://daily.dev/dash15tonon","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ODg7gW3B--/f_auto/v1779805078/avatars/avatar_I7Oy0mpyXs8dOSJPf3bPC?_a=BAMAMiWQ0"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Agree with this one:\n\nDigitalOcean App Platform recommended for smoothest transition","datePublished":"2026-03-11T10:59:58.743Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/smfFrov84#c-2WJ4rfPXf","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Bobby Iliev","url":"https://daily.dev/bobbyiliev","image":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/21223421?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"It’s a shame… I will miss the platform, so many great apps were running on Heroku","datePublished":"2026-03-13T19:44:09.759Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/smfFrov84#c-yubhDmFHc","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Jorge Escamilla Mendoza","url":"https://daily.dev/corem96","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18492412?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"What is the source of this information? 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