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What are the new dynos?

Free

Experiment in your own dev or demo app with a web and a worker dyno for free. Sleeps after 1 hr of inactivity. Active up to 12 hours a day. No custom domains. 512 MB RAM.

Hobby

Run a small app 24x7 with the Heroku developer experience for $7/dyno/mo. Custom domains. Run a maximum of one dyno per Procfile entry. 512 MB RAM.

Standard 1X, 2X

Build production apps of any size or complexity. Run multiple dynos per Procfile entry to scale out. App metrics, faster builds and preboot. All Hobby features. 512MB or 1GB RAM. $25 or $50/dyno/mo. ​

Performance

Isolated dynos for your large-scale, high-performance apps. All Standard features. Compose your app with performance and standard dynos. 6GB RAM. $500/dyno/mo.

All dynos come with the core features of the Heroku platform: Git-based deployment, managed patches and updates, automatic dyno restarts and aggregated logs.

@amitport
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IMHO
The free option is much less attractive now- projects that don't make money will have to move to other services. This means you will be driving many developers (myself included) towards your competitors.

@ErikPeterson
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pricingourselvesoutofbusiness.md

@avinassh
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time to start moving my small apps to open shift or better alternative 😌

@railsnerd
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I agree about the Free option being not as useful.

If someone wants to start on heroku, there is no risk giving them 24 hours of service. Since the money will still be yours when they start getting serious.

By only giving them 12 hours, you are missing out having them start with you, let alone staying.

@duggi
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duggi commented Mar 31, 2015

i'm sure this pricing was settled upon without looking at data, or attrition forecasts re: LTV conversion, or an eye towards business goals.

@adamkdean
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The popularity of Heroku is based on the free tier being so useful to developers. Removing this is going to be a massive mistake. What Heroku need to do is realise that the footprints of most of these apps are not 512 mb, but probably much smaller. They should offer a 128mb free tier, or a $0.99 128mb tier etc.

I don't mind paying for my footprint, but I won't pay $7 for an oversold slot that I won't even properly utilise.

@johnrees
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When are these changes coming into effect?

@antdimot
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No custom domains? It's time to switch to Openshift.

@zupo
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zupo commented Mar 31, 2015

$0.99 128MB tier sounds good! But the free tier presented above will just drive people away ...

@al-the-x
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Just makes more room at the bottom for future disruptors. ;)

@h8rry
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h8rry commented Apr 5, 2015

Not very attractive.

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