A cloud-based PaaS enabling developers to build, deploy, and scale applications without traditional DevOps complexities.
An open-source, self-hostable platform for deploying apps, databases, and services to your own servers as an alternative to Vercel and Heroku.
A Romania-based commercial self-hosted server management panel to deploy and manage applications on your own infrastructure.
Elestio provides fully managed open-source services for a large catalog of 350+ softwares. We help companies to deploy, secure, backup and update open source so
A Git-integrated hosting platform that automates site and app deployments from GitHub to IONOS infrastructure.
Zerops builds, deploys and runs your code, then intelligently scales, manages and fine-tunes the infrastructure, so you can just focus on development
Heroku alternatives compared
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| Service | Headquarters | Data hosting | EU data residency | Low Cloud Act exposure | Open source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clever Cloud | France | EU (any EU region) | Yes | Yes | No |
| Codesphere | Germany | Germany, Global / multi-region | No | No | No |
| Coolify | Hungary | Not stated | No | Yes | No |
| Easypanel | Romania | Not stated | No | Yes | No |
| Elestio | Ireland | Customer-defined, Germany, Ireland | No | No | No |
| IONOS Deploy Now | Germany | Germany, United Kingdom, United States | No | No | No |
| Platform.sh | France | Australia, Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | No | No | No |
| Qovery | France | Germany, France, United States | No | No | No |
| Scalingo | France | EU (any EU region) | Yes | Yes | No |
| Zerops | Czech Republic | EU (any EU region), Poland | Yes | Yes | No |
Frequently asked questions about Heroku alternatives
What are the best EU alternatives to Heroku?+
The EU Alternatives Directory lists 10 European alternatives to Heroku, including Clever Cloud, Codesphere, Coolify. Each one is checked for European headquarters and data protection practices.
Why switch from Heroku to an EU alternative?+
An EU-based alternative keeps your data under European jurisdiction and GDPR. It reduces exposure to the US Cloud Act and foreign data access laws.
Are EU alternatives to Heroku as good?+
Many EU alternatives to Heroku offer comparable features, with the added benefit of European data residency and digital sovereignty.
How are these Heroku alternatives verified?+
We check the legal entity, country of headquarters and hosting locations. Only providers based in the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland or Ukraine are listed.