What is Heroku?

Hosting

Heroku is a hosting or cloud platform: Cloud application platform. Tech Stack Detector identifies Heroku on any website by analysing HTTP response headers and DNS records.

Heroku is a hosting or cloud platform (Hosting). See websites using Heroku ↓

CategoryHosting
Official siteheroku.com
Detection signals2 signals
In our indexNot yet detected

How Tech Stack Detector detects Heroku

Heroku is matched from these signals during a single, ordinary page request. Each one contributes to the confidence score shown on a scan.

  • HeaderHeroku router Via header
  • DNSHeroku DNS CNAME

Websites using Heroku

No websites in our public index are known to use Heroku yet. Scan a site above that uses it to be the first. Your result becomes a shareable /site/… page.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Heroku?

Heroku is a hosting or cloud platform: Cloud application platform. Tech Stack Detector identifies Heroku on any website by analysing HTTP response headers and DNS records. Its official website is https://heroku.com.

How can I tell if a website uses Heroku?

Enter any URL into Tech Stack Detector and it reports whether Heroku is present, with a confidence score and the exact evidence it matched. Detection is based on HTTP response headers and DNS records. No login or crawling of the site is required.

What are some alternatives to Heroku?

Other Hosting technologies Tech Stack Detector detects include Vercel, Netlify, Google Cloud, GitHub Pages, Render and Plesk. You can compare any of them side by side with Heroku.

Data last updated October 20, 2026 · based on 618 recently scanned websites.