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Quave ONE vs Heroku

Heroku is the Salesforce-owned PaaS that made git-push deploys popular. Since February 2026 it runs in a sustaining-engineering model. Quave ONE runs your apps and databases as containers on our regions or in your own cloud account.

Facts checked on November 10, 2026, with a source link on every row.

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The short answer

Heroku is still a mature, stable platform with a large add-on marketplace, first-party Postgres, and a long compliance list (SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA on Shield). If you depend on those, or on Salesforce integrations, staying can make sense.

Heroku said in February 2026 that it now focuses on stability over new features and stopped offering Enterprise contracts to new customers. Heroku says it now emphasizes stability over new features. If you want managed MongoDB, a region in Brazil, logs kept for 20 days without an add-on, or the option to run in your own AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account, Quave ONE covers those.

Side by side

Pricing model

Quave ONE
Direct: usage-based, $7.50 per zCloud per month (0.5 vCPU + 0.5 GB RAM), billed hourly. Overage lines apply to disk above 5 GB per zCloud, backups above 30 GB per environment, and builds above 600 minutes per month. Connect: a platform license from $399/month, and you pay your cloud provider directly.Source
Heroku
Per dyno and per add-on, prorated to the second; the monthly price is the cap for running 24/7. Third-party add-ons are billed separately.Source

Smallest always-on app

Quave ONE
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
Heroku
Basic dyno: $7/month, 0.5 GB RAM (CPU shown as a relative share, not vCPUs). Standard-1X: $25/month. Eco ($5) sleeps after 30 minutes idle.Source

Free option

Quave ONE
Hobby account: deploy apps and databases to the US-1 Hobby region to evaluate. No charge and no credit card. Not for production.Source
Heroku
No free dynos or free Postgres/Redis plans since November 28, 2022. Students in the GitHub Student Developer Pack get platform credits.Source

Bandwidth

Quave ONE
No extra network fees. In US-5, BR-1, EU-3 and EU-4, 10 GB of outbound traffic per zCloud per month is included; contact support if you need more.Source
Heroku
Soft limit of 2 TB per app per month.Source

Managed databases

Quave ONE
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
Heroku
First-party Heroku Postgres (Essential from $5/month), Key-Value Store (Redis-compatible) and Apache Kafka. No first-party MongoDB; one third-party MongoDB add-on in Elements.Source

Long-running apps and WebSockets

Quave ONE
Long-running containers, so WebSockets work. Idle connections close after 60 seconds without data by default; keep-alive pings (such as Meteor DDP heartbeats) keep them open.Source
Heroku
Dynos are long-running and WebSockets are supported on all apps.Source

Regions

Quave ONE
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
Heroku
Common Runtime: United States and Europe. Private Spaces add 10 more. None in South America.Source

Run in your own cloud

Quave ONE
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
Heroku
Not documented. Heroku runs on infrastructure it operates; Private Spaces are isolated environments inside Heroku.Source

Autoscaling

Quave ONE
CPU- and memory-based autoscaling for app environments, enabled per account on request. Scale to zero is Connect-only.Source
Heroku
Built-in autoscaling only for Performance, Private and Shield dynos (Performance-M from $250/month). Standard dynos scale by hand.Source

Logs and metrics

Quave ONE
Included: logs kept 20 days, Grafana metrics, alerts to Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, email or webhooks, and OpenTelemetry tracing (enabled per account).Source
Heroku
On Cedar, Logplex keeps the latest 1,500 log lines; longer retention needs a log drain or add-on. Metrics: none on Eco, 24 hours on Basic, threshold alerts from Standard up.Source

Preview environments

Quave ONE
Branch previews per pushed branch with the Quave ONE CLI and GitHub Action, cleaned up after a TTL.Source
Heroku
Review Apps create a disposable app per GitHub pull request, using Pipelines.Source

Support

Quave ONE
Email support, Monday to Friday, 9AM–5PM São Paulo time, usually answered within an hour. 24/7 on-call for infrastructure outages on every plan.Source
Heroku
Free Basic Support (tickets in the help portal) for every customer; faster response with paid Enterprise Success Plans.Source

Compliance

Quave ONE
Working towards SOC 2 (preparing for the audit). Customers with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications run on Quave ONE; with Connect, workloads stay in your own cloud account.Source
Heroku
PCI DSS Level 1, HIPAA, ISO 27001/27017/27018 and SOC 1, 2 and 3. HIPAA and PCI need Shield dynos in a Private Space.Source

AI agents (MCP)

Quave ONE
Remote MCP server included: AI clients can inspect logs, review deployments, manage environments and run approved Jobs, within your account permissions.Source
Heroku
Official Heroku MCP server, described in its docs as "in early development".Source

Which one fits you

Choose Quave ONE when

  • You want a platform whose roadmap is still focused on new features.
  • You use MongoDB, or want MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Redis managed in the same place as your apps.
  • Your users are in Brazil or South America and you want a São Paulo region.
  • You want logs kept 20 days without a log drain or add-on.
  • You may need to move into your own AWS, GCP, Azure or OCI account later (Connect).

Choose Heroku when

  • You need SOC 2, PCI DSS or HIPAA reports from your provider today.
  • You rely on Salesforce integrations or specific Elements add-ons.
  • Your team is happy with buildpacks and the Heroku workflow.
  • You only need the Common Runtime in the US or Europe.

Moving from Heroku to Quave ONE

  1. List your dynos, add-ons and config vars (heroku config).
  2. Create the app on Quave ONE from your Dockerfile or a preset, and copy your environment variables.
  3. Create managed databases on Quave ONE and import a dump of Heroku Postgres (or your MongoDB/Redis add-on data).
  4. Deploy, test on the Quave ONE domain, then point your custom domain and turn off the Heroku app.
  5. Or let our team do it: we help with every step, or run the whole migration for you, apps and databases included.

FAQ

  • No. In February 2026 Heroku said it moved to a sustaining-engineering model focused on stability over new features, and stopped offering Enterprise contracts to new customers. The same post says pricing for credit-card customers did not change.
  • It depends on the dyno type. A Heroku Basic dyno (0.5 GB RAM) is $7/month; one Quave ONE zCloud (0.5 vCPU, 0.5 GB RAM) is $7.50/month. Against Standard-1X ($25/month for 0.5 GB) or Performance dynos, the same RAM costs less on Quave ONE. Compare your real setup, including what each price includes.
  • Heroku has no first-party MongoDB. Its Elements marketplace lists one third-party MongoDB add-on. Quave ONE runs managed MongoDB next to your apps.
  • Quave ONE builds from a Dockerfile or a Docker preset, or deploys a pre-built image. If your Heroku app uses buildpacks, you add a Dockerfile; we can help write it.
  • Not exactly. The $7.50 zCloud price already includes logs kept 20 days, metrics, alerts, managed database backups (30 GB per environment), MCP, and email support with 24/7 infrastructure on-call. On many platforms some of these are add-ons or higher plans, so compare the full setup you need, not only the smallest instance.

How we compare

Every fact on this page links to the public page it came from: our own docs for Quave ONE, and the vendor's own pricing or docs pages for everyone else. We checked them on November 10, 2026. Prices and features change, so check the source before you decide. If something here is wrong or out of date, email support@quave.one and we will fix it.

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