Update November 7th, 2022: These plans are now generally available. Take a look at our launch announcement post for more information on migration .

When we announced Heroku’s Next Chapter last month, we received a lot of feedback from our customers. One of the things that stood out was interest in a middle ground between our retired Heroku free tier and our current Hobby dyno and data plans, a low-cost cloud option. We’ve also fielded requests to keep a dyno that “sleeps” when not receiving requests, which is an essential feature for non-production apps on our cloud application platform.

Heroku Eco Dyno pricing: Free while sleeping

With that in mind, we’re thrilled to announce a new Heroku Dyno pricing tier. Our Eco Dynos plan costs $5 for 1,000 compute hours a month, shared across all of your Eco Dynos.…