Migration Guide
Migrate from Heroku to Vercel
Migrate Heroku apps to Vercel. Best for frontend-heavy or Next.js apps; backend-heavy workloads may need a separate API host.
What you get
Risk assessment
Blockers, warnings, and unknowns ranked by severity
Effort estimate
Hours, t-shirt size, and role breakdown
Cost estimate
Labor, infrastructure, and tooling cost range
Migration steps
Ordered execution plan with durations
Open questions
What still needs to be answered before you start
Draft config or code
Starter configs when the migration path supports it
Why teams migrate from Heroku to Vercel
Good fit when
- +Teams shipping frontend-heavy apps, Next.js services, or API routes with a strong web platform workflow.
- +Apps that can move away from long-running dyno patterns toward serverless.
Strengths
- Excellent developer experience for frontend teams and modern web apps.
- Preview deployments, edge routing, and built-in delivery workflows are polished out of the box.
Tradeoffs
- Not a direct fit for every Heroku-style worker, background job, or always-on service pattern.
- Long-running processes and stateful workloads often need companion infrastructure.
Migration notes
- Separate frontend delivery concerns from any worker or background-job architecture first.
- Map web routes, serverless functions, and environment variables into Vercel projects.
How it works
Describe your migration
Select Heroku as source and Vercel as target. Add context about your setup — configs, docs, architecture notes.
Keshro runs the analysis
Keshro researches the path, finds similar past migrations, and generates a structured assessment with risks, effort, cost, and steps.
Get your plan
Review the migration plan, refine it with your team, and use it as a living document during execution.
Resources
Related migrations
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