Stacktape vs. 
Heroku
Heroku is a legacy Platform-as-a-Service provider.
It offers a great developer experience, but this simplicity comes at its cost - less control, less flexibility, and very high infrastructure costs.
Stacktape is a Platform-as-a-Service 2.0 that runs in your own AWS account. It provides the simplicity of a PaaS 1.0 provider, while being much more flexible, powerful & cost-efficient at the same time.
No credit card required
| Stacktape | Heroku | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | AWS fees + 30% | 3-8x AWS fees |
| Free tier | ||
| Up to $100,000 infree credits | ||
| Containers | ||
| PostgreSQL, Redis | ||
| MongoDb, ElasticSearch | Addon | |
| Serverless functions | ||
| DynamoDb | ||
| Deploy from CLI | ||
| Preview deployments (GitOps) | ||
| Support | Free up to 2h / mo | $1,000/month |
| Private networking and VPCs | Enterprise only |
97 % of AWS capabilities,
3% complexity
Stacktape transforms 
into a developer-friendly platform, allowing you to deploy production-grade infrastructure in minutes.
Try for yourself
Deploy the way that works for you
1.Deploy by git push (GitOps)
> git add .
> git commit -m "add new API route"
> git push
Deploying project inside AWS CodeBuild pipeline...
INIT_PIPELINE
INSTALL_STACKTAPE
PACKAGE_WORKLOADS
UPLOAD_ARTIFACTS
DEPLOY
2.Deploy using CLI
> stacktape deploy --stage production --region eu-west-1
[SUCCESS] Loading AWS credentials done in 0.03 sec. Organization: Stacktape.
[SUCCESS] Loading configuration done in 0.03 sec.
[SUCCESS] Packaging workloads
↳ expressjs-api-container: done in 14.4 sec. Image size: 85.4 MB.
↳ analytics-lambda: done in 2.3 sec. Zipped size: 0.4 MB.
[SUCCESS] Uploading deployment artifacts
↳ expressjs-api-container: done in 5.7 sec.
↳ analytics-lambda: done in 1.9 sec..
⠋ Deploying infrastructure resources. Finished: 9/43.
Pricing
For individuals
Free
$0
No credit card required
- 1 team member
- Up to $100 / mo AWS costs
- Unlimited deployments
- Unlimited stacks
For Startups & SMBs
Flexible
% of AWS costs
Costs for AWS infrastructure that is managed by Stacktape.
Stacktape WILL NOT charge you for other resources within your AWS account.
Monthly AWS costs
Stacktape fee
$100 - $1,000
30%
$1,000 - $4,000
28%
$4,000 - $10,000
26%
$10,000 - $15,000
24%
$15,000 - $20,000
22%
> $20,000
- Unlimited team members
- Unlimited deployments
- Unlimited stacks
- Hands-on support for $75 / hour
For larger organizations
Enterprise
Custom pricing
- Unlimited team members
- SSO
- SOC 2 Compliance
- Up to 24x7 premium support
Free
For individuals
$0
No credit card required
- 1 team member
- Up to $100 / mo AWS costs
- Unlimited deployments
- Unlimited stacks
Flexible
For Startups & SMBs
% of AWS costs
Costs for AWS infrastructure that is managed by Stacktape.
Stacktape WILL NOT charge you for other resources within your AWS account.
Monthly AWS costs
Stacktape fee
$100 - $1,000
30%
$1,000 - $4,000
28%
$4,000 - $10,000
26%
$10,000 - $15,000
24%
$15,000 - $20,000
22%
> $20,000
- Unlimited team members
- Unlimited deployments
- Unlimited stacks
- Hands-on support for $75 / hour
Enterprise
For larger organizations
Custom pricing
- Unlimited team members
- SSO
- SOC 2 Compliance
- Up to 24x7 premium support
Examples
Average PaaS infrastructure
- 2 Web services
- 2 Worker service
- Postgres database
- Redis
- Frontend static hosting
Before:
~ $750 / mo
After:
~ $325 / mo ($250 AWS costs + $75 Stacktape fee)
Save ~60%
DevOps team + complex AWS infrastructure
- 2 DevOps experts
- 6 Web services + Web App Firewall
- 3 Worker services
- 2 Batch jobs
- 10 Lambda functions
- Aurora RDS Postgres database cluster
- Elasticache Redis
Before:
~ $12,000 / mo ($2k AWS costs + $10k DevOps salaries)
After:
~ $2,560 / mo ($2k AWS costs + $560 Stacktape fee)
Save ~80%
