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24 alternatives to Porter

Heroku that runs in your own cloud

Porter is a platform that simplifies cloud deployment on AWS and GCP by providing Heroku-like ease of use. It enables developers to deploy applications directly from Git repositories with built-in autoscaling and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Porter launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Porter 2.0▲206

   Heroku that runs in your own cloud (AWS/GCP/DO)

   2021 · porter.run · its alternatives →

2. 2PC
   Porter Cloud – PaaS with an eject button▲258

   Hi HN! Porter Cloud (https://porter.run/porter-cloud) is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) like Heroku, but we make it easy for you to migrate to AWS, Azure, or GCP when you're ready. Like Heroku, Porter takes care of a lot of generic DevOps work for you (like setting up CI/CD, containerizing your applications, autoscaling, SSL certificates, setting up a reverse proxy) and lets you deploy your apps with a few clicks — saving you a lot of time while developing. However, as you probably know, there’s a downside: platforms like this become constraining if and when your app…

   2024 · its alternatives →

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   Flynn▲318

   Open source Heroku on your own servers

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   SetOps▲313

   Cloud deployment made for developers

   2022 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Build your own Heroku on your own servers▲207

   Deploy your applications to any cloud provider or your own servers. No lock-in, full control. From 1 to 1000 servers with Cloud 66

   2013 · cloud66.com · its alternatives →

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   An open-source, self-hostable Heroku and Netlify alternative▲345

   coolLabs: Software without compromise. Free, open source, and built for you.

   2021 · coollabs.io · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Porter▲107

   PaaS you cannot outgrow

   2023 · porter.run · its alternatives →

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   Digger▲354

   Build on AWS without having to learn it, no-code DevOps

   2021 · digger.dev · its alternatives →

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   Easy Webserver for Node.js, Python, PHP, with Free SSL▲123

   Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids - caprover/README.md at master · caprover/caprover

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Render▲318

    Hey HN, I'm Anurag, founder and CEO of Render, a cloud for application developers. We've just launched Render Workflows, a way to define durable tasks by decorating plain TypeScript or Python functions and running them on Render without operating queues, worker pools, retry logic, and state management. Code example below [1]. The use cases we have in mind include agent loops, ETL/data pipelines, billing flows, and other long-running jobs. The model is simple: mark an existing function as a Task, deploy the repo as a Workflow, then trigger runs from your application code or via our API.…

    2019 · render.com · its alternatives →

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    Heroku▲115

    Cloud application platform

    2014 · heroku.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Heroku Alternative for Python/Django apps▲183

    Deploy Django on a cloud server you own. Appliku manages the server, and its CLI and agent skill let your AI coding agent deploy and diagnose your app.

    2021 · appliku.com · its alternatives →

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    Coolify v2 – Open-source and self-hostable Heroku/Netlify alternative▲158

    Self-hosting platform with superpowers. Deploy apps, databases & 280+ services to your server. Open-source alternative to Heroku.

    2022 · coolify.io · its alternatives →

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    Nitric Deploy▲197

    The right infrastructure, auto-provisioned in your cloud

    2022 · nitric.io · its alternatives →

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    Canine – A Heroku alternative built on Kubernetes▲320

    Hello HN! I've been working on Canine for about a year now. It started when I was sick of paying the overhead of using stuff like Heroku, Render, Fly, etc to host some web apps that I've built. At one point I was paying over $400 a month for hosting these in the cloud. Last year I moved all my stuff to Hetzner. For a 4GB machine, the cost of various providers: Heroku = $260 Fly.io = $65 Render = $85 Hetzner = $4 (This problem gets a lot worse when you need > 4GB) The only downside of using Hetzner is that there isn’t a super straightforward way to do stuff like: - DNS management / SSL…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Canine▲136

    Host with the power of Kubernetes, simplicity of Heroku

    2025 · canine.sh · its alternatives →

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    Gitkube – Deploy to Kubernetes Using Git Push▲224

    2018 · gitkube.sh · its alternatives →

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    Coolify▲419

    An open-source & self-hostable Heroku, Netlify alternative

    2022 · coolify.io · its alternatives →

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    Steampipe▲69

    Open source SQL interface to your favorite cloud APIs🧑‍💻

    2022 · steampipe.io · its alternatives →

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    IOpipe▲107

    Application operations platform for serverless

    2017 · iopipe.com · its alternatives →

21. 21HO
    Haskell on Heroku – Buildpack for deploying Haskell apps▲148

    2015 · haskellonheroku.com · its alternatives →

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    Steampipe – select * from cloud;▲24

    Instantly query your cloud, code, logs & more with SQL. Build on thousands of open-source benchmarks & dashboards for security & insights.

    2021 · steampipe.io · its alternatives →

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    Deploy Button for custom GPT-3 APIs▲78

    Instant GPT-3 backend hosting so you can focus on product

    2023 · steamship.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Rocketgraph▲121

    Build production grade web applications in minutes

    2024 · its alternatives →

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