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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. * * * ## 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 -   1        Deploy repo from GitHub-   2        Import variables from Heroku-   3        Let Railway do the rest * * * 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... ? Does Railway have a pipeline workflow to spin up a staging environment, to then promote it to production? Yes! We call them PR Environments. ? 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. ? Do you support workers? Yes, it's just an unexposed Service. To make it a webserver, just attach a domain to it. ? Do you have 100% feature parity with Heroku? We're different and improved in some ways. Read more about those differences in our docs. ? 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.