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We performed a comparison between Heroku and Pivotal Cloud Foundry based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two PaaS Clouds solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Heroku vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry Report (Updated: May 2024).
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Pros
"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites.""Valuable for us was the fast deployment. This means the time to market is improved without pain for developers.""One of the best things about Heroku is that it is very easy and straightforward to deploy an application.""What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions.""It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things.""The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us.""I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards.""The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."

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"Stability is not a concern with this product.""The solution is stable and resilient. In our company, we do not even see any challenges with the solution.""We find its stability and scalability valuable.""The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is auto-healing and the plenty of other features that are provided.""Pivotal Cloud Foundry is very easy to use compared to other cloud technologies. It has a very good performance.""It provides a set of developer-friendly tools that simplify application deployment.""The most valuable feature of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the UI, it is easy to use.""PCF is open, so the applications run really smoothly and with little downtime."

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Cons
"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do.""They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more.""Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure.""Their support is good, but they can improve their response time.""We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better.""I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely.""We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert.""Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."

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"Pivotal Cloud Foundry doesn't have certain advanced features.""It is not straightforward to setup.""Something that can be done better is canary deployment. So, right now, we're using blue-green deployment. The support for canary deployment would be nice.""There are no synthetic application monitoring and real-time monitoring features.""Regarding the setup phase, every step is a hurdle. With Pivotal Cloud Foundry, I won't get any proper resources for that. Even if I Google it, there is no proper solution for Pivotal Cloud Foundry.""There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding the future of Pivotal Cloud Foundry.""I'd like to see a larger service offering.""In the next release, I would like to see easy integration with external tools."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Its price is very good."
  • "The price of Heroku could be less expensive."
  • "There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."
  • "I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."
  • "The tool is free."
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  • "Licensing is on a monthly basis and right now we pay $24/month. There are no other costs over and above that."
  • "You're paying for the number of virtual machines you want to install in the installation."
  • "The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry is based on the customer's requirements. However, the price is comparable to other similar solutions."
  • "The price of Pivotal Cloud Foundry could improve. However, in this category of solutions, they are all expensive."
  • "The pricing is on the higher side and there are cheaper options available."
  • "We do pay for the licensing cost because we have opted for a private cloud setup. So, it is a cloud setup, and we have to make payments based on the cloud size. I do not consider it very costly when comparing it to the market."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards.
    Top Answer:I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances.
    Top Answer:We use the solution to streamline mobile application deployment and management. By connecting our project's GitHub repository to Heroku, I enabled automatic deployments whenever changes were pushed to… more »
    Top Answer:Pivotal Cloud Foundry is a cloud-native application platform to simplify app delivery. It is efficient and effective. The best feature is how easy it is to handle external services such as database… more »
    Top Answer:I find the ease of deployment and management of microservices to be the most valuable features. The platform also has good auto-scaling capabilities.
    Top Answer:I would say it is around a nine out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive. Just short of Oracle. It's sort of Oracle cloud.
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    307
    Rating
    8.0
    7th
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    11
    Average Words per Review
    532
    Rating
    7.5
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    Also Known As
    PCF, Pivotal Application Service (PAS), Pivotal Container Service (PKS), Pivotal Function Service (PFS)
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    Overview

    Established in 2007, Heroku is a cloud application platform providing a streamlined, efficient place for web app developers to create and deploy their applications. Heroku is designed to maximize developer productivity. With the entire web application development process available on the Herokucloud, creating and rolling out web apps has been made more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective than ever before.

    Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) is the leading enterprise PaaS, powered by Cloud Foundry. PCF provides a cloud-native application platform that allows you to continuously deliver any app to every major private and public cloud with a single platform. PCF is proven to accelerate feature delivery with higher developer productivity and a 200:1 developer to operator ratio. PCF's built-in security and self-healing capabilities reduce risk in your app portfolio while maintaining high-availability at scale to keep customer facing systems online even in the most challenging circumstances. pivotal.io

    Sample Customers
    Facebook, UrbanDictionary, Code for America, Mailchimp, Rapportive, GitHub, TED, and Lyft.
    Humana, Citibank, Mercedes Benz, Liberty Mutual, The Home Depot, GE, West Corp, Merrill Corporation, CoreLogic, Orange, Dish Network, Comcast, Bloomberg, Internal Revenue Service, Ford Motor Company, Garmin, Volkswagen, Solera, Allstate, US Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, ScotiaBank
    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company43%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Marketing Services Firm14%
    Sports Company14%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company14%
    Educational Organization13%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm56%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Retailer11%
    Government11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm38%
    Manufacturing Company21%
    Insurance Company6%
    Computer Software Company5%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business81%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise65%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business33%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise4%
    Large Enterprise86%
    Buyer's Guide
    Heroku vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Heroku vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
    770,765 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Heroku is ranked 13th in PaaS Clouds with 27 reviews while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is ranked 7th in PaaS Clouds with 15 reviews. Heroku is rated 8.4, while Pivotal Cloud Foundry is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Heroku writes "Useful for mobile and web applications, and helps with rapid development cycle ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pivotal Cloud Foundry writes "Easy to use, simple to sign-in, but lacking graphical interface". Heroku is most compared with Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Google App Engine, OpenShift and Amazon Lightsail, whereas Pivotal Cloud Foundry is most compared with OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and SAP Cloud Platform. See our Heroku vs. Pivotal Cloud Foundry report.

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