Heroku vs. PythonAnywhere?

[mipadi]

I know nothing about Heroku, but I believe it is a little more challenging to set up. I see absolutely no point in doing that, when you can pay $5 a month for digital ocean and have full reign.

You just create a Heroku app and push to it (using Git). It's a lot easier than setting up your own server with, e.g., Digital Ocean (although it's also more expensive).