Firebase
A Google-backed platform for building, deploying, and managing mobile and web applications with integrated development services.
- Vendor
- Also known as
- firebase
Available worldwide
What is Firebase?
Firebase is a comprehensive development platform for building and running apps across the complete development lifecycle. It provides managed infrastructure, databases, hosting, authentication, and serverless functions backed by Google Cloud, enabling developers to build and scale applications quickly without managing infrastructure.
Firebase pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier (Spark) with usage limits, or pay-as-you-go (Blaze) for production workloads. New accounts receive $300 in trial credit.
Spark
FreeNo-cost plan with usage quotas for development and testing
- Usage quotas
- Email support
Blaze
Pay-as-you-go pricing with unlimited usage and global scaling
- Unlimited usage
- Global scaling
- Email support
What Firebase does
The capabilities that matter for backend as a service, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Database model
- Mongodb document
- Built in auth
- ✓
- Row level security
- -
- File storage
- ✓
- Serverless functions
- ✓
- Edge functions
- -
- Realtime subscriptions
- ✓
- API style
- -
- Offline sync
- -
- Vector AI support
- -
- Self hostable
- ✗
- Deployment model
- Managed saas only
- Pricing model
- Usage based
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- iOS
- macOS
- Web
- Android
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (13)
Independently observed- Google App Campaigns→•
- Data Studio←•
- Flutter
- Google Ads
- AdMob
- Google Marketing Platform
- Google Play
- Looker Studio
- BigQuery
- Slack
- Jira
- Android Studio
- Stripe
Firebase FAQ
Common questions about Firebase, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Firebase?
Firebase is Google's suite of cloud-hosted backend services designed to accelerate app development. It provides real-time databases, user authentication, file storage, serverless functions, and analytics capabilities built on Google Cloud infrastructure. It is indexed under Backend As A Service.
Is Firebase free?
Firebase offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.10. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Firebase support?
Firebase supports the web, macOS, iOS and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Can Firebase be self-hosted?
We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Firebase, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.
What does Firebase integrate with?
We have confirmed 11 integrations for Firebase, including Flutter, Google Ads, AdMob, Google Marketing Platform, Google Play, Looker Studio, BigQuery and Slack, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Firebase alternatives
Other backend as a service we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AppwriteAn open-source backend platform providing integrated cloud services for web, mobile, and AI applicationsmedium · 56%
- Back4AppA cloud-based development platform providing a managed database, APIs, file storage, and executable backend logic.medium · 53%
- XanoA backend-as-a-service platform designed to make AI-generated code trustworthy and production-readymedium · 72%
- ConvexA managed backend platform combining database, serverless functions, real-time synchronization, and search in a unified TypeScript environmentmedium · 73%
- NhostAn open-source backend platform offering GraphQL APIs, authentication, storage, and serverless functions as a Firebase alternativemedium · 72%
- PocketBaseA single-file, open-source backend combining database, authentication, file storage, and real-time capabilities into one executablelow · 30%
Compare Firebase
Side by side against other backend as a service, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Firebase, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.05 | 5.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.03 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 30 | 0.04 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | File storage: Yes · Built in auth: Yes · Pricing model: usage-based · Self hostable: No · Database model: mongodb-document · Deployment model: managed-saas-only | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 10 | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-24 · 75% |
Pricing
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