In August 2022, Heroku announced that its free plans would be discontinued, citing fraud and abuse as reasons for the change. Some users weren’t pleased, understandably — and made their opinions known on social media.
“Our product, engineering, and security teams are spending an extraordinary amount of effort to manage fraud and abuse of the Heroku free product plans,” Wise said in a blog post at the time. “We will continue to provide low-cost solutions for compute and data resources.”