Update November 7th, 2022: These plans are now generally available. Take a look at our launch announcement post for more information on migration . When we announced Heroku’s Next Chapter last month, we received a lot of feedback from our customers. One of the things that stood out was interest in a middle ground between our retired Heroku free tier and our current Hobby dyno and data plans, a low-cost cloud option. We’ve also fielded requests to keep a dyno that “sleeps” when not receiving requests, which is an essential feature for non-production apps on our cloud application platform. Heroku Eco Dyno pricing: Free while sleeping With that in mind, we’re thrilled to announce a new Heroku Dyno pricing tier. Our Eco Dynos plan costs $5 for 1,000 compute hours a month, shared across all of your Eco Dynos. We are calling these dynos Eco because they sleep after 30 minutes of no web traffic and only consume hours when active, so they are economical for you.…