Heroku alternatives in Europe: EU hosting at a fixed price

Yes. Heroku’s Common Runtime has an “eu” region, and Private Spaces are available in Dublin, Frankfurt and London. Heroku’s own regions page adds two caveats: specifying an app’s region does not guarantee restriction of data residency, and no guarantees are made about the physical location of its control-surface APIs.

Heroku prices each dyno and add-on separately: an Eco dyno is $5 for 1,000 shared hours a month and sleeps after 30 minutes without traffic, a Basic dyno is $7 a month, Standard-1X $25, and Heroku Postgres starts at $5 (Essential-0). If the eu region and those prices already work for you, staying on Heroku is the simplest option.

Ask where each part of the app lives, not just the web process. Databases, backups, container images and logs can sit with other providers or in other countries. Then check who runs the service, what the bill does when usage grows, and how much of your Heroku setup moves over without rewriting.

Hosting in the EU answers one GDPR question, where personal data is stored. It does not make an app compliant by itself: what you collect, why, for how long and who else processes it remain your decisions as the controller. Look for a data processing agreement and a public list of subprocessors.

Each figure below comes from the provider’s own pricing or documentation page, linked under Sources, and was checked on 27 September 2026. Prices are in the currency each provider publishes, before tax; we have not converted them. Koyeb and Northflank also offer European regions with per-second billing.

Codara Cloud is made by Codara Solutions SL, a company in Madrid. Apps, databases, volumes, backups and container images are stored in the EU: on Hetzner Cloud in Helsinki and in Cloudflare R2 in its EU jurisdiction. Cloudflare’s global network carries app traffic and may cache served content. The data processing addendum and the subprocessor list are public.

Billing is a fixed monthly plan per organization, from €5 to €100 before tax, and several projects share its capacity. Managed Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis and MongoDB, cron jobs and custom domains are part of the plan, and there is no automatic usage overage: an action past a plan limit is refused, not billed.

Know the limits before you move. Codara Cloud runs in one region today, Helsinki. It is in beta by invitation, and plan capacity is finite and shared. If you need regions outside Europe, a long track record or a specific certification, one of the platforms above may suit you better.

Start with one app and keep it running on Heroku until the new one is verified. Create the app in the console from the same GitHub repository (Apps → New app). Without a Dockerfile, Codara builds it with Railpack, which uses the web entry of your Procfile as the start command. Codara sets PORT for you, as Heroku does.

Then create the database and connect it: Codara injects DATABASE_URL, the same name Heroku uses. Export your Heroku config vars, remove DATABASE_URL and Heroku-only keys, and import the rest. Copy the data with pg_dump through a local tunnel.