Heroku AI: The AI PaaS for Modern Apps

Build intelligent applications with managed inference and agents

A streamlined platform for building AI-powered apps

Heroku is your gateway to building, deploying, and scaling AI-powered applications without the operational complexity. As an AI PaaS, Heroku gives developers the infrastructure, tools, and managed services needed to bring AI apps to life faster. We go beyond the basics by unifying model inference, agents, and seamless interoperability with tools like MCP—all within the trusted Heroku developer experience, with our hallmark simplicity.

Heroku brings together the core building blocks needed for AI development:

Easy integration of AI models
Support for agentic workflows
Interoperability between AI and Heroku’s dynamic infrastructure
Extensibility through tools like MCP

With familiar features like Pipelines and Review Apps, Heroku helps teams iterate quickly and scale AI apps with confidence—backed by the ease, flexibility, and reliability Heroku is known for.

Heroku Managed Inference and Agents

Build intelligent apps with Heroku Managed Inference and Agents. Access top AI models using a production-ready API, with just a few CLI commands. Heroku Managed Inference and Agents supports a curated set of popular frameworks and models, optimized for performance and cost-efficiency—so you can focus on building, not managing infrastructure.

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MCP (Model Context Protocol) on Heroku

Heroku’s MCP Toolkits provide a unified gateway to deploy and manage multiple MCP servers on Heroku. This gives agentic systems like Claude Desktop, Cursor and Heroku Managed Inference and Agents a consistent interface to call APIs and interact with resources, whether they’re running on Heroku or elsewhere. This approach streamlines tool integration, reduces operational overhead, and ensures secure, scalable access to both internal and external services.

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pgvector for Heroku Postgres

Enhance your AI applications with vector similarity search using the pgvector extension on Heroku Postgres. Store embeddings, run semantic queries, and power use cases like RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and recommendations—all within your trusted database.

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How it works

Heroku, a comprehensive AI PaaS, integrates powerful components to bring intelligent capabilities to your application seamlessly. Heroku Managed Inference and Agents provides a comprehensive ecosystem for connecting AI to your application: inference models from top AI providers, embedding generation, vector storage with pgvector for Heroku Postgres and agentic tool calling with MCP – all within Heroku’s trusted infrastructure.

Your apps, made smarter

Heroku AI is designed for building cloud-native and AI-powered applications and services, accelerating delivery of agentic workflows at scale.

Secure, scalable infrastructure

Heroku AI runs on Heroku’s proven platform infrastructure, trusted by developers to deploy and scale applications reliably and securely. Whether you’re running a single agent or scaling to thousands, you benefit from Heroku’s mature runtime, built-in security features, and seamless operational experience—all while having access to leading AI models from the world’s top AI providers.

Integrated with Heroku developer experience

Heroku AI extends the trusted Heroku developer experience to AI use cases. Reduce IT complexity with an integrated platform experience that includes infrastructure, runtime, application, managed inference, agents, AI-native workflows, and developer services. Confidently build and ship AI-powered apps across environments, at scale.

Open standards, interoperable tools

Heroku AI gives you access to leading AI models, optimized for a range of agentic workflows. It’s built for flexibility—supporting a variety of models, libraries, and development tools—so you can integrate seamlessly with your team’s existing frameworks and build intelligent, responsive applications faster.

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Heroku AI is ideal for

Product teams adding AI-driven features

Simplify AI integration. Heroku’s managed platform handles the complexities of inference and agents, freeing up product teams to concentrate on core features.

Engineers looking for access to powerful foundation models

Get to production faster. Heroku AI services enable you to easily leverage a variety of AI models tailored to your application needs, removing infrastructure hurdles so you can integrate AI into your applications with speed and confidence.

Startups iterating fast leveraging managed infrastructure

Unleash your AI innovation. Heroku AI services lets you quickly deploy and iterate on intelligent features without infrastructure bottlenecks slowing you down.

Enterprises integrating AI into cloud-native architectures

Achieve enterprise-grade AI scalability. Built on a next-generation AI PaaS, Heroku AI ensures reliable performance for your critical AI-powered applications at any scale.

I was able to get access to using Heroku Managed Inference and Agents and ‘boom’ I’ve got a model running immediately that I can attach to my app and instantly start interacting with and it uses the OpenAI APIs. So all the existing SDKs just work. It saves me so much time and headache. So I can now go and actually run some of these experiments that are critical for some of our new products.

Freedom Dumlao

Chief Technology Officer, Vestmark