--- title: MapleDeploy vs Heroku - Canadian Hosting Alternative description: >- Compare MapleDeploy and Heroku. Canadian data residency and dedicated resources with flat pricing vs US-based containers with per-dyno billing. keywords: - heroku alternative canada - heroku canadian region - heroku pricing alternative - dedicated VM vs dynos - heroku salesforce data residency faq: items: - question: Is MapleDeploy a good Heroku alternative for Canadian teams? answer: >- Yes. MapleDeploy offers the same git push deploy workflow on dedicated Canadian infrastructure with flat monthly pricing. Unlike Heroku, there are no per-dyno fees, no add-on charges, and your data stays under Canadian jurisdiction. - question: Does Heroku offer Canadian hosting? answer: >- Heroku offers a Montreal region only through Private Spaces (from $1,000 USD/mo per space). Self-serve plans are limited to US and EU regions. MapleDeploy runs on Canadian infrastructure in Toronto on every plan. - question: How does MapleDeploy pricing compare to Heroku? answer: >- MapleDeploy starts at $45 CAD/month with databases, SSL, and deploys included. Heroku bills per dyno starting at $7 USD/month (Basic, always-on) or $5 USD/month for a shared Eco dyno pool with sleep after inactivity. Databases and add-ons are billed separately. A production Heroku setup typically costs $100-200 USD/month. lastUpdated: '2026-04-16' type: article author: Ross Hill locale: en_CA site_name: MapleDeploy slogan: Powerful hosting on Canadian soil organization_url: 'https://mapledeploy.ca/' logo: 'https://mapledeploy.ca//api/logo/lockup' creator: MapleDeploy publisher: MapleDeploy founding_date: '2026-01-13' email: hello@mapledeploy.ca geo_region: CA-ON geo_placename: Toronto address_country: CA area_served: Canada application_category: DeveloperApplication app_url: 'https://app.mapledeploy.ca' llms_txt: 'https://mapledeploy.ca/llms.txt' offers: >- Starter $45/mo, Pro $95/mo, Ultra $195/mo, Ultra 32 $395/mo, Ultra 64 $695/mo CAD in_language: en-CA canonical_url: 'https://mapledeploy.ca/compare/heroku' --- {% hero-section title="MapleDeploy vs Heroku" %} Dedicated Canadian infrastructure with flat pricing. No dynos, no add-on fees, no US jurisdiction. {% button href="https://app.mapledeploy.ca/signup" size="large" %} Start your free trial {% /button %} {% /hero-section %} {% intro-section %} Heroku pioneered the git push deploy workflow and remains a popular platform. But it's a Salesforce-owned, US-based service with no self-serve Canadian region. MapleDeploy is the Canadian alternative to Heroku: Pricing adds up quickly when you combine dynos, databases, and add-ons. MapleDeploy gives you a dedicated VM in Toronto with flat monthly pricing and the same git push experience. {% /intro-section %} {% comparison-table-section title="Side by side" competitor="Heroku" %} | Feature | Heroku | MapleDeploy | | --- | --- | --- | | Add-ons and databases | Marketplace with separate billing, [databases from $5 USD/mo](https://www.heroku.com/pricing) | Included, deploy what you need on your VM | | Architecture | Containers (dynos) on shared infrastructure | Dedicated VM per customer | | Data residency | US (Salesforce subsidiary); Canadian region only via Private Spaces (from $1,000 USD/mo) | Canada (Toronto) on every plan ([SLA](/legal/sla), [compliance docs](/legal/sla)) | | Backups | Database backups included with Postgres add-on (billed separately); no full-server snapshots | Weekly full-server snapshots included, 30-day retention after cancellation | | Platform source | Proprietary | Open source (Coolify) | | Pricing | Per dyno + add-ons ([from $7 USD/mo](https://www.heroku.com/pricing) for 512 MB always-on container, databases extra; $5 USD/mo Eco pool with sleep) | From $45 CAD/mo (4 GB RAM dedicated VM, databases + SSL + deploys included) | | Vendor lock-in | Heroku CLI and platform (Cloud Native Buildpacks and Docker deploys also supported) | Standard Docker and git workflows | {% /comparison-table-section %} {% content-section title="After Salesforce" %} Heroku pioneered the git push deploy workflow. For a long time, it was the fastest path from code to running app. That legacy is real and worth acknowledging. In 2010, Salesforce acquired Heroku. Development pace slowed through the 2010s. In November 2022, Heroku removed its free tier entirely, with no equivalent replacement. Thousands of developers who had built side projects, open-source tools, and demos on Heroku's free dynos had about three months to find alternatives. The platform continues to work, and it still has a large customer base. But for developers evaluating where to host new projects, the calculus has changed. The free tier is gone, pricing has moved up, and Heroku is a Salesforce subsidiary with US data jurisdiction. Many developers who left after 2022 landed on Railway, Render, or Fly. Those are US-based services on US infrastructure. If [Canadian data residency](/canadian-hosting) matters to you, either for PIPEDA compliance or on principle, none of them solve the jurisdiction problem. MapleDeploy does. {% /content-section %} {% content-section title="The real cost of a production Heroku stack" %} Heroku's pricing looks simple until you build something real. A single web dyno at the Basic tier is $7 USD/month. Add a worker dyno for background jobs: another $7. A Standard-1X dyno for horizontal scaling and zero-downtime deploys: $25. Standard-2X for more memory: $50. You need a database, so Postgres Essential-0 is $5/month and Essential-1 is $9. Throw in a scheduler add-on and a logging service, and you're looking at $80-150 USD/month before you've added any redundancy or staging environments. A realistic production stack with a web dyno, worker, Standard-1X resources, Postgres, and a logging add-on sits comfortably at $100-200 USD/month. In Canadian dollars, that's $140-280 CAD at current exchange rates, and that's billed per resource with no ceiling. MapleDeploy's Starter plan is a flat $45 CAD/month. Deploy as many apps, databases, and background workers as your VM can handle. See [our pricing](/#pricing) for what each plan includes. {% /content-section %} {% content-section title="Migrating from Heroku" %} If you're considering a move, the practical path is straightforward. Your Heroku app already builds from a git repo. MapleDeploy deploys the same way: push to a branch, the platform builds and deploys. If you have a Dockerfile, it works as-is. If you're using Heroku buildpacks, Coolify's Nixpacks builder handles most frameworks automatically. The bigger shift is databases. Heroku Postgres add-ons are separate products with their own billing. On MapleDeploy, you provision PostgreSQL (or MySQL, Redis, MongoDB) directly on your VM. Use `pg_dump` to export from Heroku and `pg_restore` to import. Connection strings update in your environment variables. For other add-ons, Coolify's one-click service marketplace covers the most common needs: databases, Redis, monitoring, logging, and more. You deploy them alongside your app on the same VM. For anything not in the marketplace, you can run any Docker image directly. The model is different from Heroku's third-party add-on ecosystem, but the coverage is broader than you might expect. Our [getting started guide](/docs/deploy-your-first-app) walks through the full process from signup to a live app. {% /content-section %} {% image-content-section title="280+ one-click services" src="coolify-one-click-services-zoom-grid" image-position="left" width=1664 height=1032 %} WordPress, Supabase, Grafana, N8N, Ollama, and more. Deploy pre-configured services alongside your app with one click. No third-party add-ons, no separate billing. {% /image-content-section %} {% image-content-section title="Try it free for 30 days" src="dashboard-checkout-trial-zoom-summary" width=760 height=988 %} Start with $0 due today. Your first charge comes after the trial. One flat price, no add-ons to calculate. {% /image-content-section %} {% cta-section title="Ready to switch?" %} Same git push deploys. Canadian infrastructure, flat pricing, dedicated resources, no add-on fees. {% /cta-section %}