Case Study: Plane modernizes agent-first infrastructure with Render

Plane migrates 8 databases and 1TB from Heroku to Render

Plane, a global payroll and HR platform, faced an infrastructure challenge as its AI-agent-driven, monorepo codebase outgrew its longtime home on Heroku. The platform required modern capabilities like robust infrastructure-as-code, private networking, and organized multi-service environments that Heroku was not built to provide, forcing the company to seek a new cloud provider.

Render provided the solution, serving as a modern and mature successor that supported Plane's specific architectural needs. After a staged migration assisted by Render's team, which included moving a terabyte of data across eight databases, Plane achieved faster code shipping and gained the declarative infrastructure management required for its agentic development future. The company fully decommissioned its Heroku account by April 2026, with the CEO stating that teams used to Heroku will find Render just as good and easy to adopt.

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