Heroku offers three lines of plans with some differences in characteristics, these changes were made to suit small applications to applications that have a large volume of data or need transactional control.
Choosing the best plan will depend on the needs of your application. At any time, you can upgrade your database plan and optimize your application with a very short period of downtime. You will see more information about this in Chapter 6, Rollback, Followers, and Forks.
The main variations between the plans are expected downtime supported:
Hobby tier tolerates 4 hours of downtime and is used for small and simple applications.
Standard tier tolerates 1 hour of downtime and is used for production applications.
Premium tier tolerates 15 minutes of downtime and is used for production applications where uptime is important.
The following table shows the main differences between the plans offered by Heroku and their respective prices:
|
Plan |
Connection Limit |
Row Limit |
RAM |
Storage |
Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Hobby Dev |
20 |
10,000 |
0 Bytes |
No |
Free |
|
Hobby Basic |
20 |
10,000,000 |
0 Bytes |
No |
$9/mo |
|
Standard 0 |
120 |
Unlimited |
1 GB |
64 GB |
$50/mo |
|
Premium 0 |
120 |
Unlimited |
1 GB |
64 GB |
$200/mo |
|
Standard 2 |
400 |
Unlimited |
3.5 GB |
256 GB |
$200/mo |
|
Premium 2 |
400 |
Unlimited |
3.5 GB |
256 GB |
$350/mo |
|
Standard 4 |
500 |
Unlimited |
15 GB |
512 GB |
$750/mo |
|
Premium 4 |
500 |
Unlimited |
15 GB |
512 GB |
$1200/mo |
|
Standard 5 |
500 |
Unlimited |
30 GB |
1 TB |
$1400/mo |
|
Standard 6 |
500 |
Unlimited |
60 GB |
1 TB |
$2000/mo |
|
Premium 5 |
500 |
Unlimited |
30 GB |
1 TB |
$2500/mo |
|
Premium 6 |
500 |
Unlimited |
60 GB |
1 TB |
$3500/mo |
|
Standard 7 |
500 |
Unlimited |
120 GB |
1 TB |
$3500/mo |
|
Premium 7 |
500 |
Unlimited |
120 GB |
1 TB |
$6000/mo |
All the plans share the following features:
Data clips to share data and queries with others people securely
SSL protection to access psql/libpq
Postgres extensions
Web UI interface to manage the database
Unmodified versions of Postgres
Database service fully managed for automatic health checks
Write-ahead log (WAL) that ensures minimal data loss in case of catastrophic failure, storing every minute