The AI PaaS For Deploying, Managing, and Scaling Apps
Heroku tackles the toil — patching and upgrading, 24/7 ops and security, build systems, failovers, and more. Stay focused on building great data-driven applications.
A streamlined platform for building AI applications and agents
Heroku makes it easy to build with AI, without the complexity of managing your own AI services. Access leading AI models and build faster with Managed Inference and Agents, and extend your AI with Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Heroku Managed Inference and Agents
Access leading models with minimal setup – heroku ai:models:create is all you need. Heroku Managed Inference and Agents helps you quickly build and deploy AI applications and agents, providing a unified platform that connects your application, AI, data, and tools.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) on Heroku
Extend your AI agents with tools and APIs using the open Model Context Protocol. Easily host and scale MCP servers on Heroku to enhance your agents with a broad ecosystem of tools, or your own custom logic.
pgvector for Heroku Postgres
Build full retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications or leverage vector similarity search with pgvector on Heroku Postgres. Seamlessly store and query embeddings alongside your app data using the same trusted Heroku database experience.
Powerful platform, unparalleled ecosystem
Don’t reinvent the wheel. Heroku’s 150+ third-party add-ons and 380+ open source buildpacks provide a rich ecosystem of preintegrated extensions and services
Officially supported languages
In addition to our officially supported languages, you can use any language that runs on Linux with Heroku via a third-party buildpack.
Developers, teams, and businesses of all sizes use Heroku to deploy, manage, and scale apps.
Deliver your unique apps, your own way. Whether you’re building a simple prototype or a business-critical product, Heroku’s fully-managed platform gives you the simplest path to delivering apps quickly — using the tools and languages you already love!
A powerful and innovative feature set
Built for developers, by developers.
Heroku Runtime
Heroku runs your apps inside dynos — smart containers which execute on a reliable, fully managed runtime environment.
Heroku PostgreSQL
Heroku’s trusted, secure, and scalable fully managed PostgreSQL database as a service, optimized for developers.
Heroku Key-Value Store
The Redis you love with a more robust developer experience, fully managed and delivered as a service by Heroku’s operational experts.
Scalability
Scale up or out in an instant with Heroku, from tiny hobby projects to Black Friday-ready enterprise ecommerce sites.
Heroku Elements
Extend your app with Add-ons, customize your language stack with buildpacks, and jumpstart your projects with buttons.
Heroku Teams
Efficiently manage people, app-level permissions, software delivery, and billing with our team collaboration platform.Fast Rollback
Deploy confidently knowing you can instantly rollback your code or Postgres data to an earlier state.
App Metrics
Heroku Metrics gives you powerful insights on the runtime characteristics of your applications.
Continuous Delivery
Heroku Flow streamlines the app release experience by making continuous delivery easy, visual, and efficient.GitHub Integration
Every pull request can spin up a disposable Review App for testing, and manually or automatically deploy a particular branch on every GitHub push.
Extensibility
Customize your stack with a Heroku innovation: Buildpacks. Build your own, or choose one from the hundreds built by the community.
Security and Compliance
Heroku regularly performs audits and maintains PCI, HIPAA, ISO, and SOC compliance – We are the simplest path to delivering engaging apps that meet high compliance requirements.
Your data on Heroku
Focus on building data-driven applications, not data infrastructure. With one-click and near-instantaneous provisioning, Heroku’s managed cloud data services help you get started faster and work with your data at scale.
The platform developers trust
Heroku is the cloud application platform of choice for startups, industry giants, and everyone in between.
“Heroku gives us a scalable, long-term solution for running our service, so we don’t have to jump from provider to provider as our business grows.”
Heroku Enterprise
The Heroku experience developers love, with the enterprise features large companies need.
Private Spaces
Network isolated, dedicated runtime environments for enhanced privacy, power, and performance.
Heroku Shield
A simplified path to building high-compliance applications for regulated industries, such as healthcare, life sciences, or financial services.
SSO for Heroku
Use your Identity Provider of choice, like Salesforce Identity, Okta, PingOne, Microsoft Active Directory, or PingFederate to manage developer access and authorization.
Team and Resource Oversight
Manage your teams, resources, and performance from a single dashboard across applications in different stages of development.
Heroku Connect
Seamlessly sync your Heroku data into your Salesforce systems of record, for a single point of view of your customers.
Enterprise-grade Support
Highly responsive SLAs, plus expert help with scaling, application architecture design, white-glove onboarding, and more.
- Engineering
- Last Updated: December 04, 2025
- Gillian Gual Hinkle, Andy Smith
For modern enterprises building cloud-native applications, success hinges on achieving maximum development velocity at every scale. Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers like AWS provide hundreds of services with the unmatched reliability and scale needed for enterprise infrastructure, but they can require significant effort and expertise for organizations to be effective and efficient. To achieve true agility, development teams turn to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Heroku to streamline the path to production and beyond.
- News
- Last Updated: December 04, 2025
- Anush DSouza, Mandeep Bal
Heroku is launching automatic prompt caching starting December 18, 2025. Prompt caching delivers a notable, zero-effort performance increase for Heroku Managed Inference and Agents . Enabled by default, this feature is designed to deliver significantly faster responses for common workloads. We have taken a pragmatic approach and currently only enabled this to cache system prompts and tool definition, and not user messages or conversation history. You can disable caching for any request by setting X-Heroku-Prompt-Caching: false.
- News
- Last Updated: November 24, 2025
- Alberto Sigismondi
We are thrilled to announce that the Heroku Terraform Provider is now fully optimized for Fir. This significant milestone allows developers to manage our next-generation platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Fir is built on a modern foundation of cloud-native, open-source standards (Kubernetes) while maintaining the legendary Heroku developer experience. By combining the declarative power of Terraform with the advanced capabilities of Fir, you can now manage your applications with unprecedented control, consistency, and scalability.
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