Graduate from Heroku.
Keep the simplicity.
Your PaaS bill is growing faster than your revenue. Migrate to your own cloud, keep the developer experience you love, and cut costs by up to 10x.
PaaS pricing explodes at scale.
Costs spiral out of control
What started at $50/month is now $5,000+. PaaS pricing is simple until you need real resources -- then the markup hits hard.
Vendor lock-in
Your app is tied to proprietary buildpacks, add-ons, and APIs. Leaving means rewriting deployment pipelines from scratch.
No control
Need a specific database version? Custom networking? Private subnets? You're stuck with whatever the PaaS offers.
Same DX. Your cloud.
Kapten gives you the same push-to-deploy simplicity you love from Heroku -- but running on your own cloud account at a fraction of the cost.
Audit your current setup
Map your Heroku apps, add-ons, and databases. Kapten identifies equivalents on your target cloud.
Provision your infrastructure
Kapten sets up a production-ready Kubernetes cluster with all the networking, DNS, and TLS you need.
Migrate your apps
Deploy your applications with the same git-push workflow. No rewriting, no new tools to learn.
Cut over with zero downtime
Switch DNS when ready. Roll back instantly if anything looks off. No big-bang migration required.
Heroku vs Kapten.
| Heroku | Kapten | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost (typical) | $2,000 - $10,000+ | $200 - $1,000 |
| Infrastructure control | Limited | Full access |
| Customization | Buildpack-only | Docker + Helm + anything |
| Developer experience | Great | Great |
| Cloud provider choice | AWS only | AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway |
| Vendor lock-in | High | None -- it's your cloud |
Migration made simple.
Step-by-step migration
Guided migration path from your current PaaS. Move services one by one at your own pace -- no big-bang cutover.
Same DX as Heroku
Git push to deploy, environment variables, add-on equivalents. Your developers won't miss the PaaS.
10x cheaper at scale
Run directly on cloud compute without the PaaS markup. Same performance, dramatically lower bill.
Full control
Custom networking, private subnets, specific database versions, GPU nodes -- anything your cloud supports, you can use.
Ready to graduate?
Keep the simplicity. Ditch the markup. Own your infrastructure.