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Heroku Managed Inference and Agents

API service

by Salesforce

Managed service on the Heroku platform giving developers metered access to hosted language, embedding and image-generation models plus MCP tool-calling for agents, attached to an app as an add-on with no infrastructure to run.

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What it does

• Model inference
• Agent orchestration

Sources

Pricing

Pricing page · 9 Oct 2026

"For those customers paying by credit card, Heroku Managed Inference and Agents uses metered billing"; per-model rates, for example Nova Lite $0.06 per 1M input tokens and $0.24 per 1M output, Stable Image Core $0.04 per image. Heroku stopped offering Enterprise contracts to new customers on 2026-02-06, so the credits route applies to existing Enterprise customers.

Description

Official documentation · 9 Oct 2026

"Heroku Managed Inference and Agents provides a managed inference service, delivering powerful models and tools as a trusted, secure, and scalable service optimized for developers." "Using MCP with Heroku Managed Inference and Agents enables agents to access external tools, manipulate data, and execute functions within your application."

What it does

Official documentation · 9 Oct 2026

Hosted model inference, and MCP tool-calling for agents.

Sold within

Official documentation · 9 Oct 2026

"Adding AI to your application is as simple as attaching the Heroku Managed Inference and Agents add-on to your app or using heroku ai:models:create in the CLI."

Name

Official documentation · 9 Oct 2026

Page heading "Heroku Managed Inference and Agents". Heroku's about page: "Heroku is a business unit of Salesforce"; its pages are copyright Salesforce, Inc., and salesforce.com lists Heroku in its own product menu.

URL

Official documentation · 9 Oct 2026

The product's own page on heroku.com.

Deployment

Official documentation · 9 Oct 2026

A managed service; "All available models are hosted on Amazon Bedrock" (Dev Center).

Interfaces

Official documentation · 9 Oct 2026

"Test and evaluate models directly from the command line with heroku ai:models:call"; Dev Center: "Heroku provides an API similar to OpenAI’s to access the models."; MCP tool-calling for agents.

Modalities

Official documentation · 12 Oct 2026

Page: 'Text-to-Text'.

Intended for

Official documentation · 9 Oct 2026

Developers building on Heroku.

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