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Heroku vs OVHcloud VPS

Pre-calculated from hand-checked data — Heroku checked 2026-08-06, OVHcloud checked 2026-08-06.

The short version

Heroku and OVHcloud VPS split our comparison — the right pick depends on what your project values.

Price OVHcloud VPS

OVHcloud VPS is cheaper at every stage we model — about €19.96/mo even for a growing project.

Ease Heroku

Heroku is easier to get running: git push heroku main; buildpacks detect the stack and the platform handles the rest.

Control OVHcloud VPS

OVHcloud VPS gives you more control over the stack — the flip side of the convenience trade.

Features Heroku

Heroku comes out ahead on 7 of the 15 features we track, versus 2.

What developers say about this matchup

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At a glance

Heroku OVHcloud VPS
Best for Teams that already know Heroku and value its mature workflow over price. Traffic-heavy European projects that want unmetered bandwidth and an included IPv4 at rock-bottom prices.
How deploys work git push heroku main; buildpacks detect the stack and the platform handles the rest. You get root on a bare server: pick a distro or an app image (Docker, WordPress, cPanel) and set everything up yourself.
The tradeoff You pay a platform premium — comparable raw compute costs a third as much elsewhere. Entirely self-managed, headline prices need a commitment, and support below premium tiers is slow.
Free tier None None

What you'd realistically pay

$5 €3.81 $25 €10.40 $50 €19.96 Just starting Steady traffic Growing
Heroku OVHcloud VPS
Estimated monthly cost at each project stage. Estimates use each provider's real plans; euro prices are compared at a rough exchange rate.
Project stage Heroku OVHcloud VPS Cheaper
Just starting ≈$5/mo Eco — One Eco dyno (512 MB) that sleeps after 30 idle minutes; an always-on Basic dyno is $7, and an Essential-0 Postgres adds $5. ≈€3.81/mo VPS-1 — From-price with commitment. 2 shared vCores, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe, unlimited traffic at 500 Mbps. OVHcloud VPS
Steady traffic ≈$25/mo Standard-1X — Adds horizontal scaling and zero-downtime deploys; database still extra. ≈€10.40/mo VPS-3 — From-price with commitment. 6 shared vCores, 12 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe, unlimited traffic at 2 Gbps. OVHcloud VPS
Growing ≈$50/mo Standard dynos + add-ons — Two Standard-1X dynos; realistic totals depend heavily on add-ons. ≈€19.96/mo VPS-4 — From-price with commitment. 8 shared vCores, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB NVMe, unlimited traffic at 3 Gbps. OVHcloud VPS

Heroku pricing notes

  • Dynos are prorated to the second up to the monthly maximum.
  • Heroku Postgres starts at $5/month (Essential-0, 1 GB storage); the Redis-compatible Key-Value Store starts at $3/month (Mini, 25 MB).

OVHcloud VPS pricing notes

  • Prices are ex-VAT "from" prices requiring the longest commitment — month-to-month is noticeably higher.
  • Monthly prepaid subscription only; there is no hourly billing on the VPS line.
  • Daily backups are included free; snapshots cost from €0.30/month extra.

Our ratings

Ease of use Heroku

Heroku 4/5
OVHcloud VPS 2/5

Pricing clarity Heroku

Heroku 4/5
OVHcloud VPS 3/5

Free tier

Heroku 1/5
OVHcloud VPS 1/5

Scaling Heroku

Heroku 4/5
OVHcloud VPS 2/5

Control OVHcloud VPS

Heroku 3/5
OVHcloud VPS 5/5

Feature by feature

Heroku wins 7, OVHcloud VPS wins 2, with 6 even.

Deploy workflow

Heroku OVHcloud VPS
Deploy from Git push Yes git push heroku main is the original deploy story; GitHub integration too. No No deploy pipeline — bring your own CI or scripts.
Preview deploys Yes Review Apps create a running app per pull request. No Nothing built in.
Official CLI Yes The heroku CLI covers deploys, logs, scaling, and add-ons. Partial Full REST API and Terraform provider; no first-class official CLI like hcloud or doctl.
Instant rollbacks Yes heroku releases:rollback reverts to any previous release instantly. Partial Included daily backups and paid snapshots restore machines; no deploy-level rollback.

Platform

Heroku OVHcloud VPS
Custom domains + HTTPS Yes Custom domains with automated certificate management on paid dynos. Yes Point DNS at the server; TLS is yours via certbot or a proxy.
Built-in CDN / edge network No No built-in CDN — pair with Cloudflare or Fastly yourself. Partial OVHcloud sells a separate CDN product; nothing is integrated with the VPS.
Serverless functions No Dynos are long-running processes; there is no function product. No Not a VPS feature.
Docker containers Yes Deploy container images through the Heroku container registry. Yes Docker app image at install time, or install it yourself.
SSH / shell access Partial heroku run bash gives a one-off shell in a fresh dyno, not the live one. Yes Full root SSH.
EU hosting region Yes Common Runtime offers a Europe region at the same prices. Yes France, Germany, Poland, and the UK — OVHcloud is EU-headquartered.

Runtime & operations

Heroku OVHcloud VPS
Automatic scaling Partial Built-in autoscaling requires Performance-tier dynos; standard dynos scale manually. No Manual plan upgrades only.
Scale to zero Partial Eco dynos sleep after 30 idle minutes; Basic and Standard run continuously. No A monthly subscription bills until cancelled, powered off or not.
Scheduled jobs Yes Heroku Scheduler (free add-on) runs tasks on a schedule. Yes Classic cron on the box.
Managed database Yes Heroku Postgres and Key-Value Store are fully managed add-ons. Partial Managed databases exist on OVH Public Cloud (from ~$64/month) — a separate product, not part of the VPS.
Logs & metrics built in Partial Log stream and basic metrics included; serious monitoring means add-ons. Partial Basic usage graphs in the control panel; app-level monitoring is yours.

Watch out for

Heroku

  • There is no free tier.
  • Compute is expensive for what you get: Standard-1X costs $25/month for 512 MB of RAM.
  • Databases and other add-ons bill separately and can dominate the total.

OVHcloud

  • The advertised prices are "from" prices tied to the longest commitment — rolling month-to-month costs more.
  • Traffic is unlimited in Europe and North America only; Asia-Pacific locations have 500 GB – 3 TB quotas, then throttle to 10 Mbps.
  • Standard-tier support is slow and famously unhelpful for anything OS-level — you are expected to manage the server yourself.
  • OVHcloud US is a separate legal entity with its own accounts — easy to sign up in the wrong portal.

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