Firebase alternatives
Every managed databases provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Firebase's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Firebase's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- SupabaseEntry paid plan: $25/month for Pro, including the first project and $10/mo of compute credits — enough to…
- NeonEntry paid plan: No fixed monthly fee. Launch is usage-based — Neon's own worked example puts typical spen…
- AivenKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
- TigerDataEntry paid plan: Compute starts at $30/month on Performance, billed hourly, with storage charged separatel…
- TursoEntry paid plan: $4.99/month for Developer, the cheapest paid plan. Scaler is $24.92 and Pro $416.58.
- Prisma PostgresKind of free offer: Always free vs Free tier
- Amazon AuroraKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Free tier
- Amazon RDSKind of free offer: Introductory free tier vs Free tier
- NileEntry paid plan: $15/month for Pro, which carries a production SLA. Scale is $350/month.
- PlanetScaleEntry paid plan: $5/month for a single-node Postgres database on network-attached storage; PlanetScale Met…
- Crunchy BridgeEntry paid plan: $9 a month for Hobby-0 — 2 cores, 512 MB, AWS only. Crunchy says the Hobby tier runs on l…
- ScaleGridFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free trial vs Free tier
- Neo4jEntry paid plan: $65/GB/month (minimum 1GB cluster) on AuraDB Professional, or $0.09/hour ($65.70/month fo…
Where Firebase stands against these 13
Firebase's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- Yes. 8 of the 12 alternatives that document it have one: Aiven, Neo4j, Neon, Nile, Prisma Postgres, Supabase and 2 more.
- Egress over allowance
- $0.12 per GiB of internet egress to worldwide destinations (excluding China and Australia) between 10 GiB and…4th cheapest of the 4 that document it. Cheapest: PlanetScale — 100 GB of egress included, then $0.06/GB.
- Storage (entry plan)
- No plan-bundled storage: 1 GiB of Firestore stored data is no-cost on both Spark and Blaze, and Blaze bills…5th highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: ScaleGrid — 18 GB storage on NANO, the entry row of the pricing calculator for PostgreSQL on DigitalOcean (1 core, 1 GB…
- Regions
- 43 regional locations across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and…Highest of the 9 that document it. Next: Amazon RDS — 39 geographic regions and 124 Availability Zones across the AWS Cloud — AWS-wide footprint; the RDS User…
- Uptime SLA
- 99.999% monthly uptime for multi-region locations and 99.99% for regional locationsJoint highest of the 4 that document it. Level with: Aiven — 99.99% from Startup ($75/month), the entry paid plan, upward.
- Point-in-time recovery
- 7 days once point-in-time recovery is enabled; it is off by default and PITR data is billed as storageJoint 2nd highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Turso — 10 days on Developer. 1 day on the free plan, 30 days on Scaler and 90 days on Pro.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.