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Benefits of Catalyst compared to Heroku

  • Build Free for all types of projects until deployed to production Unverified accounts can create at most 5 apps and run one free app
  • Stage Catalyst components and deploying projects in the development sandbox free of cost, and you pay nothing when your code is not running Personal accounts are given a base of 550 free dyno hours each month
  • Testing 500 free test cases/project $10/month (prorated to the second)
  • Deploy Up to 125 million free invocations 550 -1,000 free dyno hours per month
  • Features
  • One-click deployment Built-in feature Developer needs to create the button
  • AI and ML Catalyst Zia Installation is required
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Why choose Catalyst

  • Ease of deployment

    Catalyst has a decoupled local debugging, development sandbox, and production environment, enabling continuous integration and continuous deployment. Best of all, the local debugging and development sandbox environments are completely free.

    Catalyst is also one of the few vendors offering single-click deployment. This helps developers migrate code from development to production with less manual intervention—streamlining and simplifying the deployment process.

    Read how Craig Mulcahy, CEO of ConstructionBOS—which specializes in providing companies with vertical CRM solutions—wrote code, deployed it quickly, and accelerated time-to-market. Case study

    Ship with confidence

    Developers can build their application in the development sandbox while deploying a stable version in production. This helps developers ship apps with less friction and more confidence.

    Unified console

    Catalyst’s intuitive unified console lets even business owners and non-developers use it easily and to their advantage. The unified console integrates multiple components into a single stack. This greatly reduces the time and effort it takes to build serverless applications.With a product tour, tutorials, and high-level documentation, developers can get started quickly.

  • Lower TCO

    Catalyst ensures lower TCO at every stage. Unlike other vendors in the market, Catalyst offers all users a free development sandbox that’s a replica of the entire production environment. We guarantee zero-cost access to the application until a project is deployed to production. ‌To further ease development costs, Catalyst offers 125 million free invocations on deployment to production. Additionally, Catalyst’s pricing model is simple and users pay only for the resources they use. Catalyst uses resource requests as the primary determinant of pricing.

    Complete ownership of
    the tech stack

    Unlike most other providers, including Heroku, Catalyst’s tech stack is completely owned by Zoho. With Catalyst, you get to leverage Zoho’s extensive experience and expertise in cloud infrastructure and technology capabilities that power our 50+ products serving 70+ million users. We’ve built the entire stack in-house—from our own data centers and servers to high-level services like authentication, machine learning, and notifications. Applications built on top of Catalyst are robust, secure, scalable, and highly reliable.

    Prebuilt microservices

    Developers can leverage the power of prebuilt microservices for operations like authentication, push notifications, and other features used by Zoho products. We have a library of prebuilt microservices that helps developers build services quickly, slashing both development time and effort. Developers can easily build on top of these plug-and-play microservices.

Incquet Solutions

“We moved from Heroku to Catalyst for three major reasons. First, unlike with Heroku, we didn’t have any project limitations with Catalyst. Second, we needed a middleware API that could automate the authentication process. Building middleware APIs is easy with Catalyst. Those who work on multiple Zoho products will benefit greatly from Catalyst, as the integration features save time and effort.

The third reason was Catalyst’s online code editor functionality. Accessing the web console and editing the code online, without having to do it locally, was very convenient for us. We were able to generate the API links/endpoints in just a few clicks, use it in our Zoho products, and test them right away.

In just a few hours, we migrated the application code using Catalyst CLI.

Our experience with Catalyst has been great, and we look forward to building more apps with it.”

Jayesh Sonawane, Founder & CEO, Incquet Solutions

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