Laravel Cloud
Choose Laravel Cloud if you're building on Laravel and want a fully managed, Laravel-native platform that autoscales, includes everything you need, and is actively developed by the same team building the framework.
Laravel Cloud vs. Heroku
Laravel Cloud is the best cloud hosting platform for deploying and scaling Laravel applications.
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Laravel Cloud
Laravel Cloud is built and maintained by the Laravel team. Deployments in under a minute. Automatic scaling. Managed databases, caches, and object storage included. Everything is purpose-built for how Laravel applications actually work.
- Ship without fighting infrastructure. Built by the Laravel team, Cloud natively supports Laravel's AI tools, Octane, the Laravel scheduler and queues, and zero-downtime deployments.
- Sleep soundly with autoscaling. Compute, queue workers, and schedulers scale independently based on real demand.
- Stop paying for servers that aren't serving requests. Pay-for-what-you-use pricing with auto-hibernation.
Heroku
Heroku is a general-purpose PaaS owned by Salesforce that supports Laravel via generic PHP buildpacks. It entered maintenance mode in February 2026, meaning no new features, no new enterprise contracts, and a platform that's falling further behind the Laravel ecosystem every month.
- Generic PHP buildpack support requires manual Procfile configuration, buildpack setup, and separate worker dynos for queues and scheduled tasks.
- Billing fragments across dynos and every add-on, with no built-in cost forecasting tools.
- No new features in development; enterprise contracts no longer available to new customers.
Over 20K teams deploy faster with Laravel Cloud
Why Laravel Cloud is better than
Heroku
Deploy in under 60 seconds with no Procfiles or buildpacks.
Built for Laravel and actively developed, unlike Heroku.
Save up to 50% on infrastructure costs compared to Heroku.
Read the migration story“Laravel Cloud provides the programmable, seamless infrastructure that mirrors our own ambition, allowing us to slash our spend by 50% and shift our focus from managing servers to building the future of insurance.”
Craig Morris
Technical Program Manager at Superscript
Migrate from Heroku to Laravel Cloud
Heroku is in maintenance mode. Laravel Cloud is where Laravel apps go next.
Laravel Cloud compared to Heroku
Laravel Cloud outperforms Heroku with native Laravel support, minimal-configuration deployments, and up to 50% savings on infrastructure costs.
Feature
Laravel Cloud
Heroku
Key differences
Laravel Cloud is a fully managed platform built by the Laravel team, purpose-built for Laravel apps with one-click autoscaling, native queue workers, databases, cache, and security. Actively developed alongside the framework.
Heroku is a general-purpose PaaS in Salesforce maintenance mode since February 2026. Supports PHP via buildpacks but has no native understanding of Laravel's architecture. Horizon, Octane, and the scheduler are things you configure yourself.
Key differences
Laravel Cloud is a fully managed platform built by the Laravel team, purpose-built for Laravel apps with one-click autoscaling, native queue workers, databases, cache, and security. Actively developed alongside the framework.
Purpose-built for Laravel
Built and maintained by the Laravel team
Generic PHP buildpack, no Laravel-native features
Purpose-built for Laravel
Built and maintained by the Laravel team
Platform status
Actively developed by the Laravel team
Maintenance mode since February 2026
Platform status
Actively developed by the Laravel team
Framework support
Laravel, Symfony
Ruby, Node, Python, PHP, Go, Java, and more
Framework support
Laravel, Symfony
Infrastructure control
Control your infrastructure from code or the CLI
Greater control over dyno configuration and add-on selection
Infrastructure control
Control your infrastructure from code or the CLI
Performance and scalability
Laravel Cloud delivers automatic scaling that adjusts instantly to traffic, with compute, queue workers, and schedulers each scaling independently based on actual demand. Deploys in under a minute with zero downtime.
Scaling on Heroku means adding or resizing dynos across the board as there's no separation between web, worker, and scheduler workloads. You end up overprovisioning to handle spikes, and paying for it whether traffic arrives or not.
Performance and scalability
Laravel Cloud delivers automatic scaling that adjusts instantly to traffic, with compute, queue workers, and schedulers each scaling independently based on actual demand. Deploys in under a minute with zero downtime.
Deployment speed
Under 60 seconds from Git
Git push works, but requires Procfile and buildpack setup first
Deployment speed
Under 60 seconds from Git
Automatic scaling
Autoscaling with zero downtime
Manual dyno scaling; no separation of web, worker, and scheduler
Automatic scaling
Autoscaling with zero downtime
Server management
Zero configuration required
Procfiles, buildpacks, config vars, and add-on management
Server management
Zero configuration required
Queue and scheduler support
Horizon, queues, and scheduler are first-class features
Requires manual Procfile config and separate worker dynos
Queue and scheduler support
Horizon, queues, and scheduler are first-class features
Deployment
Laravel Cloud takes you from Git to live in one step, with automatic builds and zero-downtime deployment. When deployment is this fast and reliable, your engineering team spends less time on infrastructure and more time shipping, moving on to the next project sooner. Read more about Laravel Cloud's architecture.
Heroku's git-based deployment is genuinely good, but getting a Laravel app production-ready means writing a Procfile, configuring a PHP buildpack, and manually wiring up queue workers and cron jobs. Every time a Laravel developer deploys to Heroku, they spend time on infrastructure that should be spent building product.
Deployment
Laravel Cloud takes you from Git to live in one step, with automatic builds and zero-downtime deployment. When deployment is this fast and reliable, your engineering team spends less time on infrastructure and more time shipping, moving on to the next project sooner. Read more about Laravel Cloud's architecture.
Git integration
Seamless, minimal-config deployment (GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket support) with preview environments
Strong. Git push and GitHub integration are genuinely excellent
Git integration
Seamless, minimal-config deployment (GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket support) with preview environments
Zero downtime
Built into the platform via rolling updates and replicas
Supported out of the box, but depends on your configuration
Zero downtime
Built into the platform via rolling updates and replicas
Pricing
Laravel Cloud's Starter plan has no monthly base fee and a pay-for-what-you-use model. Applications hibernate to zero when idle (and so does your Serverless Postgres database), so you don't pay for compute that isn't serving requests.
Users switching from Heroku are saving up to 50% on
infrastructure costs.
Heroku's billing is fragmented across dynos, Postgres, Redis, and every add-on in your stack. Costs compound as you scale, and there's no built-in calculator or forecasting tool to see it coming.
Pricing
Laravel Cloud's Starter plan has no monthly base fee and a pay-for-what-you-use model. Applications hibernate to zero when idle (and so does your Serverless Postgres database), so you don't pay for compute that isn't serving requests.
Users switching from Heroku are saving up to 50% on
infrastructure costs.
Pricing model
Pay-per-use with auto-hibernation, billing alerts, and invoice previews
Separate billing for dynos and every add-on
Pricing model
Pay-per-use with auto-hibernation, billing alerts, and invoice previews
Free trial
Start for free with $5 in compute credit
No free trial available
Free trial
Start for free with $5 in compute credit
Monitoring
Laravel Cloud offers metrics like real-time logs, metrics, and error tracking. Optional Nightwatch integration for Laravel-specific insights is available with minimal configuration.
Heroku has basic dashboard metrics available out of the box, but deep monitoring requires a New Relic add-on, meaning a separate account, separate billing, and setup you manage yourself.
Monitoring
Laravel Cloud offers metrics like real-time logs, metrics, and error tracking. Optional Nightwatch integration for Laravel-specific insights is available with minimal configuration.
Monitoring and alerts
Real-time infrastructure monitoring, HTTP analytics, logs, and app metrics
Basic dashboard metrics; deep monitoring requires New Relic add-on
Monitoring and alerts
Real-time infrastructure monitoring, HTTP analytics, logs, and app metrics
SSL and CDN
Included
SSL included; CDN requires additional configuration
SSL and CDN
Included
Backups
Daily automated database backups with point-in-time recovery. On-demand backups available.
Automated backups and point-in-time recovery available on higher Postgres tiers
Backups
Daily automated database backups with point-in-time recovery. On-demand backups available.
Who should choose Laravel Cloud vs. Heroku?
Heroku
Choose Heroku if you're running a polyglot stack and are already deeply invested in its add-on ecosystem. However, given its maintenance mode status, it's worth planning your next move regardless.
Deploy now with Cloud
Launch in under a minute from Git to live with fully managed infrastructure.
Build and ship faster with native Laravel integration across your stack.
Scale and save costs automatically with built-in auto-hibernation.
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“Laravel Cloud makes it easy to demo projects to clients. I can deploy a fresh app in seconds. You only pay for what you use, letting you focus on business value instead of infrastructure.”
Peter Steenbergen
Search & GenAI Specialist, Elastic
“Laravel Cloud has saved us thousands of dollars per month and eliminates the need for a dedicated engineer to monitor our server.”
Sam Pizzo
CEO, CMS Max
“Laravel Cloud is the next generation platform for powering Laravel applications. This is the future of infra for PHP devs.”
Rafael Lunardelli
CTO, Devsquad
“Onboarding was smooth. UI is eye candy. Tinkering with scaling, replicas and resources is seamless.”
Bradley Bernard
Software Engineer, Snap
“Selected my repo, hit deploy, and boom… 60 seconds later my site was ready! I didn’t even have to configure anything.”
Duncan McClean
Software Developer, Statamic
“Wow, Laravel Cloud is very smooth! Took almost no time to deploy a Filament app with database and custom domain.”
Silvan Hagen
Developer & Consultant
“Laravel takes the pain out of building modern, scalable web apps.”
Aaron Francis
Co-founder, Try Hard Studios
Frequently asked questions:
Laravel Cloud vs. Heroku
Laravel Cloud is a fully managed platform built by the Laravel team exclusively for Laravel applications. It automates deployment, scaling, queues, caching, and monitoring with minimal manual setup. Heroku is a general-purpose PaaS owned by Salesforce that supports PHP via buildpacks but has no native understanding of Laravel's architecture, and entered maintenance mode in February 2026.
Yes. Laravel Cloud deploys in under 60 seconds with zero configuration. Heroku's git push workflow is fast once configured, but getting a Laravel app properly set up takes significantly longer before you're production-ready.
Heroku's pricing fragments across dynos, databases, Redis, and add-ons, with no built-in way to forecast costs before they arrive. Laravel Cloud uses a pay-for-what-you-use model with auto-hibernation, billing clarity, and invoice previews so you always know where you stand. Users switching from Heroku are saving up to 50% on infrastructure costs.
Yes. Queue workers, Horizon, and the Laravel scheduler are first-class features on Laravel Cloud. Read how it works in the docs. On Heroku, each requires a separate worker dyno and manual setup.
Heroku entered maintenance mode in February 2026. No new features are being built, and enterprise contracts are no longer available to new customers. For teams actively building on Laravel, that's meaningful platform risk.
Yes. Laravel Cloud supports zero-downtime deployments, and your codebase moves cleanly from Git. The main migration steps involve replacing Heroku Postgres and Redis add-ons with Laravel Cloud managed equivalents. Check our Heroku to Laravel Cloud migration guide.
Yes. Laravel Cloud includes managed databases (Laravel MySQL, Serverless Postgres, and Amazon RDS for Private Cloud customers), cache, and auto-configured queue workers. On Heroku, each of these is an add-on that you provision and manage yourself.
Laravel Cloud is made for teams that want to ship Laravel features without owning infrastructure. Heroku is better suited to polyglot teams already invested in its add-on ecosystem, though the maintenance mode announcement makes that a harder case to make in 2026.
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