Heroku vs Mendix comparison

The compared Heroku and Mendix solutions aren't in the same category. Heroku is ranked #12 in PSP , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 3.5% mindshare in the category. Mendix is ranked #4 in LCDP , with an average rating of 7.8, and holds a 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Heroku users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Mendix users who would recommend it.

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87% willing to recommend

Mendix

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95% willing to recommend

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Heroku

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

PaaS Clouds (12th)

Mendix

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Development Platforms (2nd), Rapid Application Development Software (5th), Low-Code Development Platforms (4th), Agentic Automation (5th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (10th), AI Software Development (9th)

Mindshare comparison

Heroku and Mendix aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Heroku is designed for PaaS Clouds and holds a mindshare of 3.5%, up 2.5% compared to last year.
Mendix, on the other hand, focuses on Low-Code Development Platforms, holds 4.7% mindshare, down 10.1% since last year.

PaaS Clouds Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Heroku	3.5%
Microsoft Azure	15.7%
Amazon AWS	13.1%
Other	67.7%

PaaS Clouds

Low-Code Development Platforms Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Mendix	4.7%
Microsoft Power Apps	9.0%
Appian	5.8%
Other	80.5%

Low-Code Development Platforms

Featured Reviews

Faizan Haider

Senior Software Engineer at Aldaim Solutions

Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases

Heroku is deployed on the cloud. We can deploy our private and public projects over at Heroku. Most of the time, when we are starting any new project from scratch, we have to implement our MVP for that project or the core idea. We are unsure how our traffic flow will go or the actual production environment requirements. We don't want to spend the most on the server sites, so then we can use it with our go-to plan for Heroku, and all the resources are available in the basic plan with the minimum expenses. So, it helps us to deploy and make our features available online at the minimum cost. Once we know our needs, we can add the professional add-ons and shift it to another platform. Heroku supports any resource listed in the marketplace. We just have to deploy our AI solutions, and Heroku can also support AI projects. I would recommend the solution to other users. I advise users not to purchase extra add-ons but to make scalable resources so that they can use all the resources efficiently. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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Mitchel Mol BGS

CTO at Blue Green Solutions

Has improved development quality and speed but has introduced persistent IDE slowdowns

In recent years, the IDE has been more buggy and slower, and although there have been more features added, I would like to see more stability, as some areas that used to work for a fairly long time are now slower in my development, which feels like a step back. I choose a seven mainly due to the issues we've faced with slowdowns and bugs during development, while runtime has been very stable, and the overall output on Mendix platform is still good; there is definitely some room for improvement, and I would probably have given it an eight or even a nine if those issues weren't hurting my developer output for the past few years. Overall, Mendix platform is stable, but the IDE could be better.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."

"The platform is very Node.js-friendly, which is something that is important to us."

"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."

"It is easy to deploy applications, and we don't need to bother about software updates on the server. We don't need to bother about machines, servers, and hardware. We only need to care about the system and functionality that we need or want to develop. They take care of everything else. It provides high availability. It is a pretty good solution that provides everything that we need. It has everything that we need to run our applications. We have many different applications, and we generate three million bills for a company in Brazil. We see more than a billion requests per day in another application. Everything works just fine, and it is very good."

"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."

"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."

"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."

"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."

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"The user experience is great."

"The development environment is model-driven. We can use the information from this for our business engineers to make the information models, and they can also execute the model."

"The integrated security saves a lot of time, especially when it comes to setting up user-roles and security. Also, database updates work automatically. There is no need to write queries to update the database, once you make an update."

"Mendix code and coding logic are very visual. It looks like a flow chart rather than lines of code. Rapid development is what drew us to Mendix."

"The most valuable features of the product are its ease of use and speed. My friend and I find it helpful as a team of just two developers."

"The most valuable features are the integration and UI customization."

"Enables us to rapidly create a complex application. We are also able to customize features that stakeholders in the corporation want to see, something that could not be done with other software. Our workflows and processes have evolved and improved. The fast iterations allow us to be nimble, get feedback from users, and do rapid updates."

"There are free online learning and certifications if a user would like to learn more and better understand the solution."

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Cons

"Their support is good, but they can improve their response time."

"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."

"Heroku should increase its slug size limits."

"The pricing could be improved because scaling the database becomes costly."

"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."

"We have to do daily restarts of some processes, which is annoying, and the support for custom CI could be better."

"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."

"The tool's configuration is complex."

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"Feature-wise and in terms of technical aspects, Mendix is excellent, but its pricing is steep."

"I would like to see more documentation as well as how-to documents."

"While the documentation is good, the development box could be better."

"Mendix is quite expensive, and its pricing model makes it inaccessible for startups. The app license costs between $13,000 to $14,000, which is prohibitive for startups."

"Mendix is great for internal applications but not so great for a public-facing interface. It lacks a proper directory structure for public use. The URL will not change from page to page unless a deep link is created for each page. That makes it difficult to bookmark pages in the browser to view later on."

"The code refactoring tools could be better, especially for applications running for years. It's not bad, but it could be smoother. Also, writing new widgets can be trickier than it should be for some people, but not if you're familiar with Mendix."

"In recent years, the IDE has been more buggy and slower, and although there have been more features added, I would like to see more stability, as some areas that used to work for a fairly long time are now slower in my development, which feels like a step back."

"Overall, integration with the enterprise ecosystem needs improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Heroku could be less expensive."

"There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."

"Its price is very good."

"I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."

"The tool is free."

"There is a license required to use Mendix. The solution's price is high, but it is best suited for enterprise companies that have the budget. It is not for small or medium-sized businesses."

"The solution is a bit expensive compared to others"

"Initially, we started with a year for approximately $25,000, and if we need to expand the number of seats then we will increase it."

"Licensing costs are similar to those for all other IT technology, but they vary by region."

"Mendix seems a bit expensive. But in terms of wanting to have less developers and higher velocity, the total cost of ownership is fine. It's not cheap, though."

"Mendix licensing cost is based on the number of apps you have on the server. At the basic level, it is free of charge, so that seems reasonable, but once you go beyond that, and when it comes to the number of users on the app, that basic structure doesn't work, and the pricing tends to get a little bit steep."

"Pricing used to be complex, but Mendix has improved that quite a bit."

"Mendix is not open source, but its license cost is cheap, particularly when compared to the Appian license. The license model would depend on how many users you have and how many applications you are creating. If you are creating a single app, you just need to have a single app license, so it's free. If you want a multiple app license to cover two thousand or three thousand users, for example, internal users or external users, then you need to pay for the license. There's also a license model for above three thousand or four thousand, or five thousand internal and external users."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Educational Organization

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	28
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	25

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Heroku?

I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards.

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What needs improvement with Heroku?

I don't like that the web server crashes every day, every 24 hours. The pricing could be improved because scaling the database becomes costly. The Docker features are not great. You cannot use any ...

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What is your primary use case for Heroku?

We use the solution for web applications and web APIs.

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What do you like most about Mendix?

We also use Mendix Enterprise Integration for complex business logic. It's a low-code platform, so we run Mendix in the Mendix Cloud.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Mendix?

I do not have much experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing because the sales or business team usually handles that, and as a developer, I don't have a clear idea.

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What needs improvement with Mendix?

Mendix can be improved in that, while it is good at pricing, it lacks a small business budget project for startups wanting to build their portfolio. The company can improve in that perspective, and...

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Compared 7% of the time

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Overview

Established in 2007, Heroku is a cloud application platform providing a streamlined, efficient place for web app developers to create and deploy their applications. Heroku is designed to maximize developer productivity. With the entire web application development process available on the Herokucloud, creating and rolling out web apps has been made more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective than ever before.

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Mendix is a low-code application development platform that helps your organization accelerate its application development lifecycle. The solution is designed to enable you to create software faster by abstracting and automating the development process for better business outcomes at speed and scale. Mendix has many key capabilities, including a tailored IDE for every developer, built-in collaboration tools for team development, feedback management, agile project management, the ability to build a truly responsive design across devices, and much more.

Mendix Features

Mendix has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

App development
Multi-experience
Artificial intelligence
Intelligent automation
Data integration
Atlas UI framework
Cloud-native scaling
Single-click deployment
User-based security
Version control
Automated testing
Comprehensive admin suite

Mendix Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Mendix. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Efficient and easy to learn: Mendix allows business users and developers to build and deploy sophisticated multi-channel apps with a model-driven development platform that is much more efficient and easier to learn than traditional technologies.

Simple and responsive UI: Mendix allows business engineers to create an optimal user experience through predefined layouts for smartphone, tablet, and desktop user interfaces.

Native device functions: Mendix offers out-of-the-box widgets for native device functions. Mendix developers who are building a hybrid app can easily drag and drop a widget as a building block into an app without any further coding.

End-to-end mobile app dev flow: Mendix supports the end-to-end mobile app development flow, which makes it simple and intuitive for any developer to build mobile apps that can be part of larger multi-channel applications integrated with back-end apps and services.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Mendix solution.

PeerSpot user Somnath G., Solution Architect and LowCode Practice Lead at a tech services company, says, "What I found most valuable in Mendix is that it's very much suitable for mobile apps such as native Android or IOS supported mobile apps. The multiple features of the platform are very, very attractive and very popular. Mendix has technical features such as microflows and nanoflows. You can also access data models in the platform. These are the features that are very, very strong in Mendix. I got my hands dirty on other low-code platforms, but I have not seen such strong features in them compared to the microflows, nanoflows, and data model access that are in Mendix, including creating and integration. The platform has out-of-the-box adapters or out-of-the-box-connectors that you can integrate with different interface applications such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle EBS, etc."

Sameer V., Consulting Manager at Deloitte, mentions, “Their native mobile capability is very good. In general, the way they launch the product has been great. Their product launching strategy is far better than any other platform. I work in OutSystems and Mendix. They tend to be more on the legacy side, OutSystems. With this solution, the product launching strategy is very, very agile. I really like when they roll out their updates, which are very, very frequent.”

Robert B., Solutions Architect at a computer software company, explains, The solution is just very quick and responsive. The initial setup is very straightforward, and those implementing the product do not have to be very technologically advanced in order to manage the process.”

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