Heroku is an AI Platform as a Service (AI PaaS) designed to simplify application deployment, management, and scaling. It abstracts away infrastructure complexities, allowing developers to focus on building data-driven applications. Key features include:
- Managed Inference and Agents: Access leading AI models with minimal setup, streamlining the development and deployment of AI applications.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): Extend AI agents with tools and APIs using the open Model Context Protocol, enhancing agents with a broad ecosystem of tools.
- pgvector for Heroku Postgres: Build retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications and leverage vector similarity search with pgvector on Heroku Postgres.
- Polyglot Support: Supports multiple languages including Python, .NET, Java, Node.js, Go, PHP, Ruby, Scala and Clojure.
- Heroku Runtime: Runs apps inside dynos, providing a reliable and fully managed runtime environment.
- Heroku Data Services: Offers fully managed cloud databases and data services, including PostgreSQL and Redis.
- Ecosystem: Provides a rich ecosystem of preintegrated extensions and services through 150+ third-party add-ons and 380+ open source buildpacks.
Use cases range from simple prototypes to business-critical products, offering a simplified path to delivering apps quickly.
