Heroku Eco dynos
Heroku Eco costs $5 a month for a pool of 1,000 dyno hours shared by all Eco dynos on the account. Eco dynos have 512 MB RAM and sleep after 30 minutes without traffic, so they suit hobby apps rather than always-on services.
Eco dynos costs $5.00 a month, or $60 a year.
This is a platform subscription with usage allowances. It is not a dedicated CPU/RAM server allocation; usage charges and limits depend on the plan.
- Deployment
- Application platform
Our notes
Choosing Heroku Eco dynos
Who it suits
Hobby apps, demos and student projects on Heroku, especially when you run several small apps on one account, because the 1,000 dyno hours are shared by every Eco dyno you own.
Compared with other Heroku plans
Eco and Basic dynos both have 512 MB of memory. Eco is $5 for a shared hours pool and sleeps after 30 minutes without traffic; Basic is $7 per dyno. Standard-1X, also 512 MB, costs $25. Moving from Eco to Basic does not add memory; check on Heroku’s dyno page how Basic handles idle time before you switch.
Before you sign up
A sleeping dyno has to wake on the next request, so the first visitor after a quiet spell waits. One dyno running all month uses about 730 hours, so 1,000 hours covers one app kept awake by traffic all month, or several that sleep often. Databases and add-ons are billed separately.
Worked costs
- Eco pool (any number of Eco dynos)
- $5
- Two apps on Basic dynos instead
- $14
- One Standard-1X dyno
- $25
Our arithmetic from the list prices in our catalog, before tax, add-ons and any overage not shown. Hourly prices use 730 hours for a month.
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Cost at a glance
What this plan costs you
- Per month
- $5.00
- Per year
- $60
Standard list price before tax, add-ons, backups or bandwidth overage.
Specifications
- Billing scope
- Flat fee for a shared pool of 1,000 dyno hours
- Deployment model
- Application platform
Before you buy
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Price history
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