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Pros
Pro Based on Cloud Foundry
As a certified Pivotal Cloud Foundry PaaS Provider, it supports all of Cloud Foundry's features.
Pro No downtime/hibernation for Pay-as-you-go Free tier
If you subscribed to the Pay-as-you-go, they'll give you credits for the platform, and they will never shut down your instance.
Pro Customizable with Buildpacks
Like Heroku, IBM Cloud Foundry is built with the standard Pivotal Cloud Foundry, meaning it supports all applications that has a official buildpack, or you could use Heroku's buildpacks if you fancy to use them.
Pro Extensible with Addons
the IBM Cloud Service Catalogue for Cloud Foundry application is diverse, consisting of mostly IBM-offered solutions and third-party providers.
Pro Multi-region Spaces
Cloud Foundry Spaces in IBM Cloud is Multi-region, you can select a region for a space with ease.
Pro Free tier
Lite plan gives you 256MB of memory to run a app, and the Pay as you go free tier gives you a 512MB per app allocation. It's more generous than Heroku in many ways.
Cons
Con Hibernation for Lite plan
Lite plan subscribers are subject to hibernation of a app within 7 days, to reset this count, you need to show development activity.
Con No Git deployments
If you got used to Git-based deployments, prepare to surrender as IBM Cloud Foundry does not support git-based deployments at this time of writing.
Con Ephemeral storage by default
Like Heroku, once your app dies, the storage is completely destroyed. The instance's FS is intended only for scratchpad and not for persistence. However, ScaleIO scalable storage is available, but not available on this platform at this time of writing
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