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Google Cloud Run vs Heroku: which is more reliable? (2026)
Heroku is more reliable than Google Cloud Run, scoring 91.0 vs 72.8 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Google Cloud Run reported 3 incidents and Heroku reported 6, with effective uptime of 99.59% and 99.95% respectively. Heroku resolves incidents faster on average (1h 43m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Google Cloud Run | Heroku |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 72.8 | 91.0 |
| Rank (app hosting platforms) | #6 | #2 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 99.59% | 99.95% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 3 | 6 |
| Partial / major outages | 3 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 4h 39m | 1h 43m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Google Cloud Run and Heroku differ
- Heroku reported 2× as many incidents as Google Cloud Run over the last 90 days (6 vs 3).
- Google Cloud Run had 3 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Heroku.
- Heroku fixes problems faster: 1h 43m on average, against 4h 39m for Google Cloud Run (2.7× quicker).
- Google Cloud Run's longest outage on record lasted 6h 8m (Oct 20, 2026); Heroku's lasted 5h 4m (Oct 28, 2026).
90-day uptime
Google Cloud Run
Heroku
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Google Cloud Run incidents
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 8m
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore +32 more
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 10m
Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner +10 more
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 40m
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build +21 more
Recent Heroku incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 28, 2026 · resolved in 5h 4m
- Degraded performanceSep 24, 2026 · resolved in 1h 28m
- Degraded performanceAug 25, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 18, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceAug 10, 2026 · resolved in 20m
- Degraded performanceAug 6, 2026 · resolved in 2m
Other app hosting platforms to consider
- DigitalOcean App Platform · #1 · 99.98% uptime
- Koyeb · #3 · 99.64% uptime
- Render · #4 · 99.71% uptime
- Netlify · #5 · 99.74% uptime