Clever Cloud vs Google App Engine vs Heroku

Overview

Heroku

Stacks25.8K

Followers20.5K

Votes3.2K

Google App Engine

Stacks10.5K

Followers8.1K

Votes611

Clever Cloud

Stacks222

Followers264

Votes976

Clever Cloud vs Google App Engine vs Heroku: What are the differences?

Introduction

The key differences between Clever Cloud, Google App Engine (GAE), and Heroku lie in their deployment options, pricing models, scalability, supported languages, deployment process, and service integrations.

Deployment Options: Clever Cloud offers support for native Docker images, Git deployment, and CI/CD integrations. Google App Engine provides flexible environments, standard environments, and custom runtimes for deployment. Heroku utilizes Git deployment, Docker, and containerization for deployment processes.
Pricing Models: Clever Cloud has a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on resources used. Google App Engine offers a free tier with pay-per-use pricing beyond, and also provides discounts for sustained usage. Heroku has a similar pricing model to Clever Cloud, with pay-as-you-go based on resources consumed.
Scalability: Clever Cloud offers horizontal and vertical scaling options with auto-scaling capabilities. Google App Engine provides automatic scaling based on the traffic load, with options for manual scaling as well. Heroku also supports automatic scaling based on traffic demands.
Supported Languages: Clever Cloud supports a wide range of programming languages including Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Node.js, and others. Google App Engine supports Java, Python, PHP, Node.js, and Go among other languages. Heroku has extensive language support for Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, Python, Scala, and more.
Deployment Process: Clever Cloud's deployment process involves simple Git pushes or CI/CD integrations to deploy applications seamlessly. Google App Engine has a streamlined deployment process with versioning and traffic splitting capabilities. Heroku's deployment is straightforward through Git pushes or CLI commands for seamless application deployment.
Service Integrations: Clever Cloud integrates with various third-party services like databases, monitoring tools, and logging solutions for enhanced application management. Google App Engine offers integration with Google Cloud Platform services such as Cloud SQL, Firebase, and Stackdriver for extensive application functionalities. Heroku has a wide range of add-ons for database services, caching, monitoring, and more to enhance the application development experience.

In Summary, the key differences between Clever Cloud, Google App Engine, and Heroku lie in deployment options, pricing models, scalability, supported languages, deployment process, and service integrations.

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Alex

Oct 20, 2020

Decided

I'm transitioning to Render from heroku. The pricing scale matches my usage scale, yet it's just as easy to deploy. It's removed a lot of the devops that I don't like to deal with on setting up my own raw *nix box and makes deployment simple and easy!

Clustering I don't use clustering features at the moment but when i need to set up clustering of nodes and discoverability, render will enable that where Heroku would require that I use an external service like redis.

Restarts The restarts are annoying. I understand the reasoning, but I'd rather watch my service if its got a memory leak and work to fix it than to just assume that it has memory leaks and needs to restart.

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Alejandro

May 13, 2022

Review

I recently came across a training course on using Django and React together. That got me thinking about how to serve up the project and remember that Heroku had a great interface for serving up my Django/Python App so I would think it should work. Figured I would throw in my 2 cents, not sure if it helps.

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Kevin

Jun 29, 2021

Decided

The Friendliest.app started on Heroku (both app and db) like most of my projects. The db on Heroku was on the cusp of becoming prohibitively expensive for this project.

After looking at options and reading recommendations we settled on Render to host both the application and db. Render's pricing model seems to scale more linearly with the application instead of the large pricing/performance jumps experienced with Heroku.

Migration to Render was extremely easy and we were able to complete both the db and application moves within 24 hours.

The only thing we're really missing on Render is a CLI. With Heroku, we could manage everything from the command line in VSCode. With Render, you need to use the web shell they provide.

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Detailed Comparison

Heroku	Google App Engine	Clever Cloud
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.	Google has a reputation for highly reliable, high performance infrastructure. With App Engine you can take advantage of the 10 years of knowledge Google has in running massively scalable, performance driven systems. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow.	Clever Cloud is a polyglot cloud application platform. The service helps developers to build applications with many languages and services, with auto-scaling features and a true pay-as-you-go pricing model.
Agile deployment for Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java, Python, Go and Scala.;Run and scale any type of app.;Total visibility across your entire app.;Erosion-resistant architecture. Rich control surfaces.	Zero to sixty: Scale your app automatically without worrying about managing machines.;Supercharged APIs: Supercharge your app with services such as Task Queue, XMPP, and Cloud SQL, all powered by the same infrastructure that powers the Google services you use every day.;You're in control: Manage your application with a simple, web-based dashboard allowing you to customize your app's performance.	Auto-scalability; Multi-language;SQL and NoSQL;Couchbase;Mongodb;Postgresql;MySQL; Load-balancing;Marketplace;Websockets;Git and FTP support
Statistics
Stacks 25.8K	Stacks 10.5K	Stacks 222
Followers 20.5K	Followers 8.1K	Followers 264
Votes 3.2K	Votes 611	Votes 976
Pros & Cons
Pros 703 Easy deployment 459 Free for side projects 374 Huge time-saver 348 Simple scaling 261 Low devops skills required Cons 27 Super expensive 9 Not a whole lot of flexibility 7 Storage 7 No usable MySQL option 5 Low performance on free tier	Pros 145 Easy to deploy 106 Auto scaling 80 Good free plan 62 Easy management 56 Scalability	Pros 147 Quick & easy setup 104 Amazing support 87 Ultra fast answer to any question 82 Github integration 74 Time saver Cons 2 Super expensive 1 Not a whole lot of flexibility
Integrations
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What are some alternatives to Heroku, Google App Engine, Clever Cloud?

Red Hat OpenShift

OpenShift is Red Hat's Cloud Computing Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. OpenShift is an application platform in the cloud where application developers and teams can build, test, deploy, and run their applications.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Once you upload your application, Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the deployment details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

Render

Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.

Hasura

An open source GraphQL engine that deploys instant, realtime GraphQL APIs on any Postgres database.

Cloud 66

Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack, Laravel, GoLang, and more.

Jelastic

Jelastic is a Multi-Cloud DevOps PaaS for ISVs, telcos, service providers and enterprises needing to speed up development, reduce cost of IT infrastructure, improve uptime and security.

Dokku

It is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. It helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from building to scaling.

PythonAnywhere

It's somewhat unique. A small PaaS that supports web apps (Python only) as well as scheduled jobs with shell access. It is an expensive way to tinker and run several small apps.

CapRover

It is an extremely easy to use app/database deployment & web server manager for your NodeJS, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, WordPress (and etc...) applications! It's blazingly fast and very robust as it uses Docker, nginx, LetsEncrypt and NetData under the hood behind its simple-to-use interface.

Deis

Deis can deploy any application or service that can run inside a Docker container. In order to be scaled horizontally, applications must follow Heroku's 12-factor methodology and store state in external backing services.

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Clever Cloud vs Google App Engine vs Heroku: What are the differences?

Introduction

Deployment Options: Clever Cloud offers support for native Docker images, Git deployment, and CI/CD integrations. Google App Engine provides flexible environments, standard environments, and custom runtimes for deployment. Heroku utilizes Git deployment, Docker, and containerization for deployment processes.
Pricing Models: Clever Cloud has a pay-as-you-go pricing model based on resources used. Google App Engine offers a free tier with pay-per-use pricing beyond, and also provides discounts for sustained usage. Heroku has a similar pricing model to Clever Cloud, with pay-as-you-go based on resources consumed.
Scalability: Clever Cloud offers horizontal and vertical scaling options with auto-scaling capabilities. Google App Engine provides automatic scaling based on the traffic load, with options for manual scaling as well. Heroku also supports automatic scaling based on traffic demands.
Supported Languages: Clever Cloud supports a wide range of programming languages including Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Node.js, and others. Google App Engine supports Java, Python, PHP, Node.js, and Go among other languages. Heroku has extensive language support for Java, Ruby, Node.js, PHP, Python, Scala, and more.
Deployment Process: Clever Cloud's deployment process involves simple Git pushes or CI/CD integrations to deploy applications seamlessly. Google App Engine has a streamlined deployment process with versioning and traffic splitting capabilities. Heroku's deployment is straightforward through Git pushes or CLI commands for seamless application deployment.
Service Integrations: Clever Cloud integrates with various third-party services like databases, monitoring tools, and logging solutions for enhanced application management. Google App Engine offers integration with Google Cloud Platform services such as Cloud SQL, Firebase, and Stackdriver for extensive application functionalities. Heroku has a wide range of add-ons for database services, caching, monitoring, and more to enhance the application development experience.

Clever Cloud vs Google App Engine vs Heroku

Overview

Clever Cloud vs Google App Engine vs Heroku: What are the differences?