Big Commerce 🆚 Heroku - Dec, 2025

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Big Commerce (bigcommerce.com) has been added on 📅 Apr 10, 2013 and last updated on 📆 Nov 18, 2020. Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2019.
Heroku (heroku.com) has been added on 📅 Feb 10, 2015 and last updated on 📆 Jan 24, 2025.

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Big Commerce

11305 Four Points
Austin, TX 78726
US

Heroku

650 7th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
US

📧 Email	sales@b...	pr@h...
☎ Phone	1-888-248-9325, 1800 107 862, +1-512-758-7588	+1 (866) 278-1349
Ranks	🏆 Semrush 11,422 (lower is better) 🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 91/78🔗 Links 25,695,544	🏆 Semrush 37,536 (lower is better) 🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 81/69🔗 Links 3,883,549
Languages	en-US	en-US
📄 Info	Even if they are a rather new company in the hosting industry as they were founded in 2009, BigCommerce has international recognition for their services in more than 120 countries. They design cloud solutions that include:Unlimited bandwidth;Unlimited storage;Unlimited staff accounts;Unlimited products;Unlimited API Calls (only available for the enterprise-level plan);In order to improve your business, BigCommerce provides sales channels that help you advertise your products: branded [...] Read full review	Heroku is a container-based cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers developers to deploy, manage, and scale applications with ease. Designed with flexibility and simplicity in mind, Heroku provides a seamless path to bring applications to market without the complexities of managing infrastructure, hardware, or servers. By offering a fully managed platform, Heroku allows developers to concentrate on writing and refining their application code rather than dealing with deployment, [...] Read full review
📡 Established	2009	2007
🏁 Site speed	Fast, load time 1.8 seconds 53% sites are slower SEO Links count 41,589	Average, load time 2.3 seconds 38% sites are slower SEO Links count 5,478

📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares	Facebook Shared Count:	Facebook Shared Count:
	Bigcommerce Started from: May, 2009 Tweets: 33,364 Followers: 65,870 Friends: 11,460 Last activity: Dec 17, 2025	heroku Started from: November, 2007 Tweets: 6,653 Followers: 102,350 Friends: 3,381 Last activity: Dec 19, 2025
	BigCommerce Likes: People talking about them: Last activity: Sep 28, 2019	Heroku Likes: People talking about them: Last activity: Sep 24, 2019
	Bigcommerce Followers: 8,912 Entity type: Privately Held Founded: 2009 Employee Count: 201-500 Industry: Computer Software	Heroku Followers: 7,093 Entity type: Privately Held Founded: 2007 Employee Count: 51-200 Industry: Computer Software
	http://blog.bigcommerce.com Blog Posts: 1,362 Blog added on: Jan, 2014 Language: en-US Last written post: Oct 10, 2022	Heroku Blog Blog Posts: 376 Blog added on: Feb, 2015 Language used: en Last written post: Nov 24, 2025

🔧 Cloud - 4/6
💡 Plan Name	Ecommerce Enterprise [Linux]	Free [Linux]
💰 Price	on request	$ 0.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space	unlimited	unlimited
📶 Data Transfer	unmetered	unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains	unlimited	1
🆓 Free Domain	0	0
🔋 RAM		512 MB
📌 Dedicated IPs	0	0
🔨 Control Panel		[In-house]
🌏 Server Location	United States	United States
📜 Description	INFO (mouse over)Call 1-866-991-0872 for custom pricing lower than Magento and Shopify Plus Power your team’s success with the best full-service open platform No transaction fees 0% Products, file storage and bandwidth - Unlimited Staff accounts - Unlimited Sales Channels Branded online store eBay and Amazon [...]	INFO (mouse over)Ideal for experimenting with cloud applications in a limited sandbox. 1 web/1 worker Deploy from Git Automated patching Self healing apps Unified logs Number of process types 2 Always on Sleeps after 30 mins of inactivity, otherwise always on depending on your remaining monthly free dyno [...]
📅 Date Plan	Nov 2020	Dec 2016
💡 Plan Name	Ecommerce Standard [Linux]	Hobby [Linux]
💰 Price	$ 29.95/mo.	$ 7.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space	unlimited	unlimited
📶 Data Transfer	unmetered	unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains	unlimited	unlimited
🆓 Free Domain	0	0
🔋 RAM		512 MB
📌 Dedicated IPs	0	0
🔨 Control Panel		[In-house]
🌏 Server Location	United States	United States
📜 Description	INFO (mouse over)Sell online with your own beautiful online store No transaction fees 0% Products, file storage and bandwidth - Unlimited Staff accounts - Unlimited Sales Channels Branded online store eBay and Amazon Point of sale Facebook/Instagram Pinterest Google Shopping Features Responsive website [...]	INFO (mouse over)$7 per dyno/month Perfect for small scale personal projects and hobby apps. Deploy from Git Automated patching Self healing apps Unified logs Number of process types 10 Always on Custom domains Free SSL on custom domains Application Metrics Past 24 hours, with 10 minute resolution Dedicated [...]
📅 Date Plan	Nov 2020	Dec 2016
💡 Plan Name	Ecommerce Plus [Linux]	Standard 1x [Linux]
💰 Price	$ 79.95/mo.	$ 25.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space	unlimited	unlimited
📶 Data Transfer	unmetered	unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains	unlimited	unlimited
🆓 Free Domain	0	0
🔋 RAM		512 MB
📌 Dedicated IPs	0	0
🔨 Control Panel		[In-house]
🌏 Server Location	United States	United States
📜 Description	INFO (mouse over)Grow your online business with marketing tools proven to increase conversion No transaction fees 0% Products, file storage and bandwidth - Unlimited Staff accounts - Unlimited Sales Channels Branded online store eBay and Amazon Point of sale Facebook/Instagram Pinterest Google [...]	INFO (mouse over)$25/dyno per month Enhanced visibility, performance, and availability for powering your production applications. Deploy from Git Automated patching Self healing apps Unified logs Number of process types Unlimited Always on Custom domains Free SSL on custom domains Application Metrics Past 24 [...]
📅 Date Plan	Nov 2020	Dec 2016
💡 Plan Name	Ecommerce Pro [Linux]	Standard 2x [Linux]
💰 Price	$ 299.95/mo.	$ 50.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space	unlimited	unlimited
📶 Data Transfer	unmetered	unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains	unlimited	unlimited
🆓 Free Domain	0	0
🔋 RAM		1 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs	0	0
🔨 Control Panel		[In-house]
🌏 Server Location	United States	United States
📜 Description	INFO (mouse over)Scale your growing business with a comprehensive set of features No transaction fees 0% Products, file storage and bandwidth - Unlimited Staff accounts - Unlimited Sales Channels Branded online store eBay and Amazon Point of sale Facebook/Instagram Pinterest Google Shopping Features [...]	INFO (mouse over)$50/dyno per month Enhanced visibility, performance, and availability for powering your production applications. Deploy from Git Automated patching Self healing apps Unified logs Number of process types Unlimited Always on Custom domains Free SSL on custom domains "Slide to scale" [...]
📅 Date Plan	Nov 2020	Dec 2016
💡 Plan Name	-	Performance M [Linux]
💰 Price	-	$ 250.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space	-	unlimited
📶 Data Transfer	-	unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains	-	unlimited
🆓 Free Domain	-	0
🔋 RAM	-	2500 MB
📌 Dedicated IPs	-	0
🔨 Control Panel	-	[In-house]
🌏 Server Location	-	United States
📜 Description	-	INFO (mouse over)$250/dyno per month Superior performance when it's most critical for your super scale, high traffic apps. Dedicated Yes Mix and match Mix with Standard 1x/2x and Performance L dynos Deploy from Git Automated patching Self healing apps Unified logs Number of process types Unlimited Always [...]
📅 Date Plan	-	Dec 2016
💡 Plan Name	-	Performance L [Linux]
💰 Price	-	$ 500.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space	-	unlimited
📶 Data Transfer	-	unmetered
🔌 Hosted domains	-	unlimited
🆓 Free Domain	-	0
🔋 RAM	-	14 GB
📌 Dedicated IPs	-	0
🔨 Control Panel	-	[In-house]
🌏 Server Location	-	United States
📜 Description	-	INFO (mouse over)$500/dyno per month Superior performance when it's most critical for your super scale, high traffic apps. Dedicated Yes Mix and match Mix with Standard 1x/2x and Performance M dynos Deploy from Git Automated patching Self healing apps Unified logs Number of process types Unlimited Always [...]
📅 Date Plan	-	Dec 2016

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