Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 21 → 22 of 77
4 categories · Named, not rankedHeroku
22Judge labels
0First choices
6Negative labels
6 / 14Models named it
4Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Heroku was named 8 times in Cloud hosting and 3 other categories, where Amazon Web Services led with 32%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business22 of 81
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market41 of 85
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise31 of 44
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In cloud hosting · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Heroku for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 41 of 85 | 25% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Amazon Web Services at 32% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Managed Kubernetes platforms | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 42 of 52 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Google Kubernetes Engine at 43% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| CI/CD platforms | Developer platform | 0% | 32 of 43 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by GitHub Actions at 68% | |
| Secrets management | Identity and access | 0% | 48 of 59 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by HashiCorp Vault at 31% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Heroku held within the floor in all four categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Cloud hosting · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 57 → 38 of 75
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 34 → 29 of 41
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud hosting | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 57 → 41 of 85 |
| Managed Kubernetes | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 42 of 52, unchanged |
| CI/CD | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 32 of 43, unchanged |
| Secrets | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 48 of 59, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Heroku across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Heroku across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct4 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative7 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative22 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“PaaS options like Heroku, Render, and Fly.io abstract away infrastructure concerns entirely” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Platform-specific env vars (Vercel, Heroku, Netlify) for anything above hobby-level.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Secrets · negative prompt · hard negative
“Status: ❌ Avoid (Strategy Change)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Managed Kubernetes · negative prompt · hard negative
“While great for getting started quickly, some users experience reliability issues as applications scale” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Cloud hosting · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Heroku, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Heroku was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Heroku, over the 22 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Heroku was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Heroku. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 13 of the 22 answers that named Heroku and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
northflank.com6
youtube.com6
reddit.com5
bluehost.com3
elementor.com3
openmetal.io3
adivi.com2
atlantic.net2
blog.railway.com2
checkthat.ai2
Thirty-four of the thirty-four domain citations in answers naming Heroku came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
heroku.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Heroku takes 0% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.ShowHide
Search and answers
heroku.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Heroku takes 0% of first choices and Amazon Web Services takes 32%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “cloud hosting provider”
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not in the top ten
Position for “cloud hosting providers”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 18,100 a month (“heroku”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 951 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 47,517 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 4,514 · 370 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 29,382
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 41 of 85 in cloud hosting
Segment leader
32%
Amazon Web Services
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 22 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 13 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on heroku.com
1,991
subdomains included
Content
1,075
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
4 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 758 | 4 | 2026-08-25 | MFA, Logs | |
| Podcast or video | 149 | 0 | 2025-01-13 | ||
| Case study | 100 | 0 | 2026-04-29 | ||
| Conference or event | 47 | 0 | 2026-03-23 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 8 | 0 | 2026-01-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 7 | 0 | 2025-10-06 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 4 | 0 | 2026-05-26 | ||
| Comparison | 1 | 0 | 2026-01-30 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-256 Lesser-Known Heroku CLI Commands You Probably Aren’t Using blog
- 2026-08-21Fine-Grained Access Control Now Available for All Heroku Customers blog
- 2026-07-16How To Set Up a Staging Environment on Heroku in 3 Easy Steps blog
- 2026-07-01Securing heroku cli credentials with system keychain storage blog
- 2026-06-24Health check for your heroku connect data pipeline blog
- 2026-05-26What is dbaas glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page heroku.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Heroku
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Heroku; a claim can dispute any of them.
Heroku (Container Apps) 1
Follow Heroku
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Heroku is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Heroku is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cloud Application Platform; fully managed app hosting that just works
- For
- Developers, teams, and businesses of all sizes
- Price stated
- Heroku Product Pricing for Every Stage of Your App’s Journey heroku.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 3 heroku.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Basic Support is free for all Heroku customers heroku.com/pricing
- Integrations claimed
- 150 heroku.com
- Certifications
- PCIHIPAAISOSOCHIPAA compliancePCI complianceHIPAA and PCI compliantPCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider
- Hosting
- ten global regionsmultiple global regionsEUUSAll Private Spaces regionsAll Private Spaces and Common Runtime regions
- Customers named
- LitChartsTAO DriveSalesforceBonobosAligntechClear Channel OutdoorGnarSharinpix
What Heroku's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: heroku.com, heroku.com/pricing, heroku.com/compliance, heroku.com/platform, heroku.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Heroku's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Heroku, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Heroku by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Heroku is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Heroku, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.