New -3 and -5 plans for Heroku Key-Value Store Private and Shield tier

Change effective on 27 May 2025

Heroku Key-Value Store Private and Shield -3 and -5 instances are now available. -3 and -5 plans are cost effective for light-weight KVS instances in Private Spaces and Shield Spaces.

Plan vCPU RAM PIOPs Multitenant Connection Limit
private-3 shield-3 2 500 MB 3000 no 400
private-5 shield-5 2 750 MB 3000 no 700

You can provision the new plans the same as any Heroku Key-Value Store add-on by specifying the plan name, for example:

$ heroku addons:create heroku-redis:private-3 -a example-app

See the Heroku Key-Value Store add-ons page for pricing on the new plans.