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Reflex vs Heroku
Heroku popularised git-push deploys and add-ons for Postgres, Redis, and logging. Reflex meets teams leaving dyno economics for BYOS: Reflex Pipeline covers promotion and rollback patterns on your VMs, while reflexd closes the gap Heroku’s platform used to hide — kernel signals, PHP-FPM health, queue workers, and disk.
| Topic | Reflex | Heroku |
|---|---|---|
| Total cost of ownership (typical stack) | One subscription covers server operations, Git-driven deploys with health gating and rollback where your tier allows, uptime-style checks, and Brain-led remediation — see Pricing for current tiers. | Teams often pay for a server panel, separate deploy automation, monitoring/alerting, and ad-hoc incident tooling — each with its own renewal, integration work, and on-call runbook. |
| Primary focus | Operate and heal servers you own; Git deploys where tier allows | Fully managed runtime, routing, and scaling abstractions |
| Migration story | Importers and manifests for common panels; agent installs on target hosts | Platform-specific; moving off often means re-architecting processes |
| Automated repair | Brain playbooks with dry-run culture in the product narrative | Restart/rebuild primitives; deeper repair is operator-led |
| When Heroku fits | — | Teams prioritising zero server SSH and maximum managed abstraction |
| When Reflex fits | Teams who want Heroku-grade deploy ergonomics on their own metal with incident automation | — |
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