Faable Deploy vs Heroku

Short answer: Faable Deploy keeps what made Heroku great — push your code and it runs, with no servers to manage — and fixes what Heroku left behind. You get a permanent free plan (Heroku removed its free tier in 2022), a fixed monthly fee per project instead of a bill that grows dyno by dyno, a built-in Web Application Firewall, Faable Auth in the same subscription, and apps and data hosted in the EU.

Quick comparison

	Faable Deploy	Heroku
Deploy from a Git push	✅ zero config	✅
Language detection	✅ Node.js, Python, PHP; Dockerfile on Hobby+	✅ buildpacks
Permanent free plan	✅ no card, no expiry	❌ removed in 2022
Entry price	0 €, then 15 €/month per project	$5/month Eco hours pool, $7 per Basic dyno
What the price covers	The whole project: apps, SSL, WAF, auth, traffic allowance	One dyno; add-ons billed separately
Idle sleep on the entry tier	30 min, wakes in a few seconds	30 min on Eco
Horizontal autoscaling	✅	Performance and Private dynos only
Free automatic SSL	✅	✅
Built-in Web Application Firewall	✅ edge firewall, every plan	❌ third-party add-on
Bundled identity / auth (OAuth 2.0, OIDC)	✅ Faable Auth, 15,000 MAU free	❌ third-party add-on
Company and infrastructure	🇪🇺 European	US (Salesforce), EU region available
Currency	EUR	USD

Competitor figures checked against Heroku’s official pricing and Dev Center in late September 2026. They change often — confirm on their pages before you decide.

Why teams move from Heroku to Faable

Start free, and stay free while you build

Heroku retired its free dynos in November 2022; today the cheapest option is a shared pool of Eco hours that sleeps after 30 minutes, and anything that must stay up is a paid Basic dyno per process. On Faable, the Free plan is permanent and needs no credit card: up to 3 projects, an instance per project, 50 deployments a day, custom domains and 10 GB of egress a month — and an idle app wakes in a few seconds.

One fee per project, not per dyno and per add-on

A typical Heroku app is a dyno per process plus add-ons for logging, authentication and security — each on its own line of the invoice. Faable charges a fixed monthly fee per project, never per user: Hobby at 15 €/month includes unlimited deployments, 1 vCPU · 1.5 GB per app, Dockerfile builds, 50 GB of egress and Faable Auth with unlimited monthly active users. Free and Hobby never bill per GB; only Pro meters egress beyond its 100 GB. See Deploy pricing.

Security and identity out of the box

Every app sits behind a managed Web Application Firewall that blocks scanner traffic before it reaches your code, on every plan. When your app needs sign-in, Faable Auth is already there — hosted login, social and passwordless login, MFA, passkeys and machine-to-machine tokens — under the same account, the same bill and the same data-processing agreement.

European by construction

Heroku is a Salesforce product: picking its EU region moves where your dynos run, not who operates them or which law reaches the data. Faable is a European company — your apps and data are hosted in the EU, and support on Hobby and Pro comes straight from the engineers who build the platform.

Modern defaults

HTTP/3, image optimization and streaming responses work out of the box — LLM apps can stream for minutes, with only a 60-second limit to the first byte (see Hosting AI agents in Europe). The Faable MCP server lets your coding agent deploy, read build logs and fix a failing release from your editor.

Moving a Heroku app to Faable

Most Heroku apps move without code changes, because the model is the same:

On Heroku	On Faable
`git push heroku main`	Push to your GitHub repository — Faable builds every push to the deploy branch
Buildpacks (`package.json`, `requirements.txt`, `composer.json`)	The same manifests are detected automatically — see What the Builder Expects
`Procfile` `web:` process	Your `start` script or framework entry point; a Dockerfile on Hobby and Pro
Config vars (`heroku config:set`)	Environment variables, per app
`PORT` environment variable	Same — listen on the port Faable provides
Ephemeral dyno filesystem	Same model — keep data in a database (Databases)
Custom domains + ACM	Custom domains with free automatic SSL, on every plan

If your app uses Heroku Postgres, point it at any managed Postgres — the Databases guide covers EU-hosted options like Neon that take minutes to set up.

When Heroku might fit better

You rely on Heroku Postgres, Redis or Kafka as first-party services from the same vendor, or on a specific add-on from its marketplace.

Last updated on November 3, 2026