Is Heroku shutting down?

No. Heroku said in February 2026 that it moved to a sustaining-engineering model focused on stability, and stopped offering Enterprise contracts to new customers. It still runs, and it still shipped features such as Postgres Advanced in October 2026.

Which Heroku alternative has managed MongoDB?

Among these options, Quave ONE runs managed MongoDB on the same platform as your apps. DigitalOcean offers Managed MongoDB as a separate product you can attach. Railway has a Railway-maintained MongoDB template, and Coolify runs MongoDB as a container on your server. Render docs show running it yourself or using Atlas, and the Fly.io Meteor guide recommends Atlas.

Which Heroku alternative has a region in Brazil?

Quave ONE (BR-1, São Paulo) and Fly.io (gru) do. Render, Railway and DigitalOcean App Platform list no South American region. With Coolify you pick your own servers.

Best Heroku alternatives (2026)

1. Quave ONE(that's us)

Best for: Teams that want apps and managed databases (including MongoDB) on one platform, a São Paulo region, logs and alerts included, email support, and the option to run in their own cloud.

Smallest always-on app: 1 zCloud (0.5 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM) for $7.50/month in standard regions (US-5, EU-3, BR-1), after a free Professional upgrade review. Logs, metrics, alerts, backups, MCP and support are included. EU-4 London is $26.50.Source
Managed databases: Managed MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and ClickHouse, with managed backups kept 7 days by default. A single-node MongoDB starts at 1 zCloud ($7.50/month).Source
Regions: Direct: Ashburn (US-5), Frankfurt (EU-3), London (EU-4) and São Paulo (BR-1). Connect: your own cloud account; the license covers one region and provider, more may cost extra.Source
Run in your own cloud: Yes, with Connect: the same platform in your AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account, or on-premise. 12-month minimum and a one-time setup fee.Source

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2. Render

Best for: Postgres-first teams in the US, Europe or Singapore who want autoscaling and full-stack previews on the Pro workspace.

Smallest always-on app: $7/month for 512 MB RAM and 0.5 CPU. Next size is $25/month for 1 CPU and 2 GB.Source
Managed databases: Managed PostgreSQL (paid from $6/month) and Redis-compatible Key Value (Valkey). No managed MongoDB: docs show running it yourself on a disk or using MongoDB Atlas.Source
Regions: Oregon, Ohio, Virginia, Frankfurt and Singapore. None in South America.Source
Run in your own cloud: Not documented. Render runs on infrastructure it manages; Private Link connects to services in AWS.Source

Quave ONE vs Render in detail →

3. Railway

Best for: Small teams and side projects that want per-second usage billing, a visual canvas and automatic PR environments.

Smallest always-on app: Billed by real usage, not allocation: an app averaging 0.5 vCPU and 0.5 GB RAM all month uses about $15 of compute; an idle app uses less.Source
Managed databases: Railway-maintained templates for PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis and MongoDB, with HA variants. No published database uptime SLA.Source
Regions: US West (California), US East (Virginia), EU West (Amsterdam) and Southeast Asia (Singapore). None in South America.Source
Run in your own cloud: Bring your own cloud is listed only on the Enterprise plan (custom pricing, contact sales).Source

Quave ONE vs Railway in detail →

4. Fly.io

Best for: Teams that want low-level VM control, many regions and very small machines, and can wire autoscaling and previews themselves.

Smallest always-on app: shared-cpu-1x with 256 MB RAM: $2.19 per 30 days in the cheapest regions; shared-cpu-1x with 1 GB: $6.70. Prices vary by region.Source
Managed databases: Managed Postgres from $38/month. Redis through Upstash. No managed MySQL or MongoDB; the Meteor guide recommends MongoDB Atlas for production.Source
Regions: 17 regions in the docs, including São Paulo (gru), Johannesburg, Tokyo and Sydney.Source
Run in your own cloud: Not documented. Fly.io runs on servers it operates.Source

Quave ONE vs Fly.io in detail →

5. DigitalOcean App Platform

Best for: Teams already on DigitalOcean who want simple flat per-instance pricing from $5/month and will forward runtime logs to another tool.

Smallest always-on app: Shared 1 vCPU / 512 MiB with 50 GiB transfer: $5/month. Dedicated CPU starts at $29/month.Source
Managed databases: A $7/month PostgreSQL dev database, or attach DigitalOcean Managed Databases (a separate product): MongoDB from $15.23/month, plus PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, Kafka and OpenSearch.Source
Regions: 12 regions across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. None in South America.Source
Run in your own cloud: Not documented. App Platform runs on DigitalOcean infrastructure.Source

Quave ONE vs DigitalOcean App Platform in detail →

6. Coolify

Best for: Teams with ops capacity who want a free, open-source, self-hosted platform on their own servers.

Smallest always-on app: Whatever your server costs at your provider; Coolify adds nothing self-hosted.Source
Managed databases: One-click PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, ClickHouse and more, running on your server. Each is a single container with no built-in replication or failover; scheduled backups to S3.Source
Regions: No Coolify regions: you choose servers anywhere. The Coolify Cloud control plane runs in Falkenstein, Germany.Source
Run in your own cloud: Yes, on any server reachable over SSH. You own OS updates, hardening and backups, even with Coolify Cloud.Source

Quave ONE vs Coolify in detail →

Best Heroku alternatives in 2026

1. Quave ONE(that's us)

2. Render

3. Railway

4. Fly.io

5. DigitalOcean App Platform

6. Coolify

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