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Firebase pricing
Firebase publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 30 August 2026, Firebase pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Firebase plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spark | Free | 7 | Entry tier |
| Blaze | On request | 8 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Spark
FreeThe entry tier. It covers no-cost usage with daily-refreshing quotas, cloud firestore: up to 1 gb storage, 20k writes/day, 50k reads/day, cloud functions: up to 2m invocations/month, 400k gb-seconds/month, cloud storage: 5 gb-months storage, 100 gb downloads/month, 5k upload operations/month, hosting: 10 gb storage, 360 mb/day data transfer, realtime database: up to 1 gb storage.
Blaze
On requestOver Spark, this tier adds:
- Pay-as-you-go usage beyond free tier
- Cloud Firestore: $5/GB after 1 GB, writes beyond 20K/day at overage rates
- Cloud Functions: $0.40 per million invocations beyond 2M/month, $0.12/GB for outbound networking beyond 5 GB/month
- Cloud Storage: $0.026/GB after 5 GB, $0.15/GB data transfer beyond 100 GB/month
- Hosting: same storage rates, $0.15/GB beyond 360 MB/day
- Access to larger services and higher usage levels
- $300 free credit if eligible
- A/B Testing, Analytics, App Check, Cloud Messaging, Crashlytics included at no cost
Where Firebase stops being free
Spark, Free
- No-cost usage with daily-refreshing quotas
- Cloud Firestore: up to 1 GB storage, 20K writes/day, 50K reads/day
- Cloud Functions: up to 2M invocations/month, 400K GB-seconds/month
- Cloud Storage: 5 GB-months storage, 100 GB downloads/month, 5K upload operations/month
- Hosting: 10 GB storage, 360 MB/day data transfer
- Realtime Database: up to 1 GB storage
- No payment method required
No paid tier on record
Firebase lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Firebase feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Real-time Database
- REST API
- Authentication
Integrations
- Google Cloud
- Cloud functions
- Cloud Storage
Platform
- Web support
- Mobile support
- Cloud support
People bring Firebase in for mobile app backend development, real-time data synchronisation, web application backend, cross-platform app development. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Firebase are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Mobile Development
Too few mobile development tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firebase (this page) | Free | freemium | - | |
| Ionic | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Firebase |
| Capacitor | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Firebase |
| NativeScript | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Firebase |
| Kotlin Multiplatform | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Firebase |
| Sencha | On request | One-time purchase, per developer | - | vs Firebase |
| .NET MAUI | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Firebase |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Firebase badges page.
Before you pay for Firebase
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Firebase runs on ios, android, web, flutter, c++, unity, and is published by Google of Mountain View, California, USA. The full record is on the Firebase review, and the rest of the category is under best mobile development tools.
Firebase pricing questions
- How much does Firebase cost?
- Firebase publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Spark up to On request for Blaze. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Firebase have a free plan?
- Yes. The Spark tier costs nothing and covers no-cost usage with daily-refreshing quotas, cloud firestore: up to 1 gb storage, 20k writes/day, 50k reads/day, cloud functions: up to 2m invocations/month, 400k gb-seconds/month.
- What is the difference between Spark and Blaze on Firebase?
- Blaze costs On request against Free, and adds pay-as-you-go usage beyond free tier, cloud firestore: $5/gb after 1 gb, writes beyond 20k/day at overage rates, cloud functions: $0.40 per million invocations beyond 2m/month, $0.12/gb for outbound networking beyond 5 gb/month, cloud storage: $0.026/gb after 5 gb, $0.15/gb data transfer beyond 100 gb/month.
- Which mobile development tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 mobile development tools listed alongside Firebase have a free tier: Ionic, Capacitor, NativeScript, Kotlin Multiplatform, .NET MAUI.
- What am I actually paying for with Firebase?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: other, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for mobile app backend development, real-time data synchronisation, web application backend.
- Does Firebase charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Firebase prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Firebase against before paying?
- The closest mobile development tools in this directory are Ionic, Capacitor, NativeScript, Kotlin Multiplatform. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Firebase covering price, platforms and features.