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Heroku vs Render: which one does AI recommend?

We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity 10 questions buyers ask about platform as a service for deploying apps — 29 answers in total — and counted who got named. Heroku is named in 17 of 29 answers (59%); Render in 16 (55%).

Heroku

59%

named in 17 of 29 answers

Render

55%

named in 16 of 29 answers

How they rank against everyone else

Railway

62%

Heroku

59%

Render

55%

Vercel

45%

DigitalOcean App Platform

41%

Fly.io

41%

Azure App Service

28%

AWS Elastic Beanstalk

21%

Where does your product land?

Same 10 questions, your product, about a minute. No account.

Counts are mentions in AI answers, not endorsements, measured 2026-09-20. Nobody pays to appear.