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Comparison · CI/CD · weekly run Nov 3

Dagger vs Heroku

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Heroku is the stronger AI pick in CI/CD: it has a visibility score of 0.3 versus 0 for Dagger.

Choose Dagger if…

  • You need SOC 2 Type II coverage
  • Usage-based pricing suits your budget better than flat tiers

Choose Heroku if…

  • You want the brand AI engines rank higher (0.3 vs 0)
  • You want a lower entry price ($5 vs $20)
  • You need PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider or HIPAA or ISO 27001 or ISO 27017 or ISO 27018 or SOC 1 or SOC 2 or SOC 3 coverage
  • Flat tiers pricing suits your budget better than usage-based

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric Dagger Heroku
Visibility score0%0.3%
Change vs last weekNewNew
Rank in CI/CD#36#31
Share of voice0%0.2%
Mentions this run01
Positive in AI answers—0%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

0%25%50%75%100%Nov 3Dagger 0%

Dagger 0pp · Heroku 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Heroku leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT
0%
0%
AI Mode
0%
0.9%
Perplexity
0%
0%
DaggerHeroku

Head to head in AI answers

0 engine answers name both brands

0Dagger ranked higher
0Heroku ranked higher

Features, pricing & fit

DimensionDaggerHeroku
Pricing modelUsage-basedFlat tiers
Entry price$20 / mo$5 / mo
Free planNoNo
DeploymentLocal machine, your own infrastructure, or Dagger CloudFully managed cloud platform as a service (container-based)
Integrations—150+
ComplianceSOC 2 Type IIPCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider, HIPAA, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3
SupportCommunity Discord, Email support, 24/7 premium support (Enterprise plan)Enterprise-grade support with SLAs and onboarding for Heroku Enterprise customers
Founded—2007
Headquarters—San Francisco, California, United States (Salesforce headquarters, 415 Mission St)
Employees—201–500
FundingSeries A · $30M raisedSeries A dated March 13, 2013 (amount redacted, not confirmed)
Best forEngineering teams that want CI written as ordinary code and that run many developers and coding agents against the same pipelines.Developers, startups, agencies and enterprises that want to deploy and scale apps without managing servers

Plans side by side

Dagger

Starter$20per month
Scale$200per month
EnterpriseCustomcustom
Dagger pricing

Heroku

Eco$5per dyno per month
Basic$7per dyno per month
Standard-1X$25per dyno per month
Standard-2X$50per dyno per month
Performance-M$250per dyno per month
Performance-L$500per dyno per month
Performance-L-RAM$500per dyno per month
Performance-XL$750per dyno per month
Performance-2XL$1,500per dyno per month
Private-S$125per dyno per month
Private-M$250per dyno per month
Shield-S$150per dyno per month
Heroku pricing

Data collected ·ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode·coverage 100%·next run

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Dagger vs Heroku”, https://slateindex.ai/compare/dagger-vs-heroku, data of Nov 3, 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0.