Pricing
Firebase (Google) pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
Reviewed pricing summary
- Firebase offers two plans.
- The Spark Plan (free, no payment method required) includes generous no-cost quotas: 1 GiB Firestore storage, 50K Firestore reads/day, 20K writes/day, 10 GB Realtime Database download/month, 1 GB Realtime Database storage, 10 GB Hosting storage, 5 GB Cloud Storage, unlimited FCM messaging, and unlimited Analytics and Crashlytics.
- Many operational tools (A/B Testing, Remote Config, In-App Messaging, Performance Monitoring, App Distribution) are permanently free.
- The Blaze Plan (pay-as-you-go) retains all Spark quotas and adds usage-based billing: Firestore at ~$0.18/100K reads and writes; Realtime Database at $5/GB stored and $1/GB downloaded; Cloud Functions at $0.40/million invocations; Cloud Storage at $0.026/GB stored; Hosting at $0.15/GB transferred.
- Phone authentication is billed per SMS by region.
- SQL Connect (Firebase Data Connect) adds managed PostgreSQL via Cloud SQL, starting at ~$9.37/month after a 3-month free trial.
- New Blaze accounts are eligible for $300 in Google Cloud credits.
Benchmark context
#3
of 10 in Backend-as-a-Service & Realtime
19.2%
AI search visibility
Sources and verification
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