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Moving to a new hosting solution can be hard. Don't worry, we're here to help you migrate off Heroku in no time.

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## The [best alternative to Heroku](https://blog.railway.com/p/top-five-heroku-alternatives):

40% cheaper

Only pay for what you actually use. Don't worry about which size dyno to pick.

50% faster build times

Customers report build and deploy times are cut in half when moving to Railway.

Real servers under the hood

All services on Railway run 24/7 (unless you turn on App Sleeping).

Help at every turn

25,000+ strong community members plus the core team stands ready to help.

On-demand resources

Workloads vertically scale without the need to update container size.

Best in class DX

Keyboard friendly interface and mobile site means you can leave your laptop at home.

[Continue reading](https://docs.railway.com/reference/compare-to-heroku)

## Seamless migration from Heroku to Railway

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    Deploy repo from GitHub
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    Import variables from Heroku
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    Let Railway do the rest

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We automagically add, configure, and deploy your services described in the procfile.

[Read the migration docs](https://docs.railway.com/tutorials/migrate-from-heroku)

## You might be wondering...

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Does Railway have a pipeline workflow to spin up a staging environment, to then promote it to production?

Yes! We call them PR Environments.

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Where do I set the size of my deployments?

You don't. We automatically scale vertically to meet your requirements at all times. Need horizontal scaling? Just add replicas.

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Do you support workers?

Yes, it's just an unexposed Service. To make it a webserver, just attach a domain to it.

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Do you have 100% feature parity with Heroku?

We're different and improved in some ways. Read more about those differences in our docs.

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Do you offer a free trial?

Yes. For more information, check out Railway Pricing.

Deploying software should be easy – Heroku is not.  
Join more than one million users on Railway.

## Grab your Procfile,  
Your train has arrived!

Start deploying and scaling applications effortlessly on Railway today.