Chief Technical Advisor at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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Jul 30, 2025
The pricing structure needs improvement since it uses cloud billing. We do not know how the pricing is calculated as it is all on the cloud. They could have implemented credits based on usage so that users would be able to easily calculate the pricing and provide it to customers.
In terms of price, Google Firebase can be described as a cheap product. My company makes monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There are no additional costs apart from the licensing costs attached to the solution.
The pricing is reasonable. They have general plans. You choose what you need. I haven't really used anything above the free plan. The little bit of money I have to pay is fine. The last amount I paid was about $10 a month.
Pricing for Google Firebase is not so expensive, and if you're a start-up with a small amount of data, it will be quite cheap, and there's even a free tier that you can use. If you're doing a pilot with a reasonable amount of data, for example, just a few gigabytes, it's still on the free tier. If you increase the amount of data, Google Firebase pricing is still reasonable. The solution has two levels of pricing: the no-cost and the pay-as-you-go. The no-cost pricing level means that if you do AB testing, analytics, app distribution, app indexing, authentication, and storage on the free tier, you can do ten thousand authentications a month for free. For ten thousand email authentications or mobile authentications, it's also free. For fifty thousand identification management and identity checks, it's free. One gigabyte of storage is free, and ten gigabytes for networking is also free. Twenty thousand documents a day is free. For pay-as-you-go, it's one cent per authentication if you are in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, it will cost you six cents per authentication. For storage after one gigabyte, it'll be ten cents per additional gigabyte, for example, two gigabytes amount to ten cents, three gigabytes would cost twenty cents, and so on.
Application Development Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Real User
Dec 23, 2020
The pricing component is a bit confusing when it comes to what exactly you'll pay for, but I wouldn't say it's expensive. I just found it a bit confusing to understand what exactly it was saying. There aren't any extra payments for the license.
Right now, we're using the free version. The solution allows for a specific number of users that can use it for free. Then, then the plan can be upgraded according to the number of users, or according to the storage that we need on Firebase. Pricing, therefore, depends upon the client or the number of users coming to the app. Typically, we start with the free option, and if we need to, we'll ask the client to upgrade the plan. Under the free plan, they offer authentication, and have a Firestore Cloud Function, hosting, and a real-time database as well as storage, therefore you do get a lot of things included and you don't have to pay for any of it until you add too many users or need more storage.
Fullstack software developer with Python and angular at Laureate International Universities
Real User
Dec 26, 2019
The monthly cost is based on writing data and queries to the database. The price, I would say, is cheap. You can use this database in the free tier even for production with small applications.
Director Private Sector Software Solutions at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Aug 1, 2019
It is not easy to calculate the cost per copy, use or if the load rose dramatically we did not know how that would impact the final price. The pricing for the authentication is based on SMS rates and is not consistent all over the world. For example, the cost in the US and Canada is one cent, but six cents in Serbia and the rest of the world. This should be adjusted.
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The pricing structure needs improvement since it uses cloud billing. We do not know how the pricing is calculated as it is all on the cloud. They could have implemented credits based on usage so that users would be able to easily calculate the pricing and provide it to customers.
Google Firebase is much cheaper compared to other popular solutions.
Google Cloud is the cheapest among the solutions I have used. Their free tier is very generous, allowing me to run sites with no cost.
Firebase is open source and free up to a certain level, so there is no need to pay any amount up to a certain point.
The cost efficiency is perfect, with many features being free. Licensing or pricing is highly cost-effective for small companies.
I don't know the current prices, however, it is probably average compared to others in the market.
The pricing plans indicate it can get very expensive.
The price is too expensive.
The tool is affordable. The cost is a bit high compared to REST API. Some clients prefer REST API over Firebase.
The solution’s pricing is similar to that of AWS. The cheapest tool is Alibaba Cloud.
The product is free.
I rate the pricing a five out of ten.
In terms of price, Google Firebase can be described as a cheap product. My company makes monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. There are no additional costs apart from the licensing costs attached to the solution.
Google Firebase’s pricing needs improvement.
My company makes very minimal payments toward the licensing costs of the solution.
Google Firebase is an expensive solution.
I rate Google Firebase a seven or eight out of ten for pricing.
The solution's price is based on the number of consumers.
The pricing is reasonable. They have general plans. You choose what you need. I haven't really used anything above the free plan. The little bit of money I have to pay is fine. The last amount I paid was about $10 a month.
The price is perfect and very clearly defined. The price during the trial setup is free and then you move to a paid service.
The pricing is pretty good. It's less than Azure and AWS. We pay for a private license.
Pricing for Google Firebase is not so expensive, and if you're a start-up with a small amount of data, it will be quite cheap, and there's even a free tier that you can use. If you're doing a pilot with a reasonable amount of data, for example, just a few gigabytes, it's still on the free tier. If you increase the amount of data, Google Firebase pricing is still reasonable. The solution has two levels of pricing: the no-cost and the pay-as-you-go. The no-cost pricing level means that if you do AB testing, analytics, app distribution, app indexing, authentication, and storage on the free tier, you can do ten thousand authentications a month for free. For ten thousand email authentications or mobile authentications, it's also free. For fifty thousand identification management and identity checks, it's free. One gigabyte of storage is free, and ten gigabytes for networking is also free. Twenty thousand documents a day is free. For pay-as-you-go, it's one cent per authentication if you are in the United States. If you are outside of the United States, it will cost you six cents per authentication. For storage after one gigabyte, it'll be ten cents per additional gigabyte, for example, two gigabytes amount to ten cents, three gigabytes would cost twenty cents, and so on.
We are using the free version of Google Firebase.
The moment you go into volumes, then you work on a pay-per-volume basis.
The pricing component is a bit confusing when it comes to what exactly you'll pay for, but I wouldn't say it's expensive. I just found it a bit confusing to understand what exactly it was saying. There aren't any extra payments for the license.
Right now, we're using the free version. The solution allows for a specific number of users that can use it for free. Then, then the plan can be upgraded according to the number of users, or according to the storage that we need on Firebase. Pricing, therefore, depends upon the client or the number of users coming to the app. Typically, we start with the free option, and if we need to, we'll ask the client to upgrade the plan. Under the free plan, they offer authentication, and have a Firestore Cloud Function, hosting, and a real-time database as well as storage, therefore you do get a lot of things included and you don't have to pay for any of it until you add too many users or need more storage.
The monthly cost is based on writing data and queries to the database. The price, I would say, is cheap. You can use this database in the free tier even for production with small applications.
The solution is free up to a certain point. You don't have to add your credit card until you exceed the limits allowed.
Licensing costs are on a monthly basis.
It is not easy to calculate the cost per copy, use or if the load rose dramatically we did not know how that would impact the final price. The pricing for the authentication is based on SMS rates and is not consistent all over the world. For example, the cost in the US and Canada is one cent, but six cents in Serbia and the rest of the world. This should be adjusted.