Best Firebase Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

15 free alternatives in Databases. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Firebase Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: Databases

Recent Pricing Changes (2)

deprecated 2026-03-19 medium impact
Firebase Studio (formerly Project IDX) shut down March 19, 2026. Cloud IDE and AI code generation features discontinued. Existing projects accessible until March 2027 for migration
reduced 2026-02-03 high impact
Cloud Storage for Firebase now requires the pay-as-you-go Blaze plan, in effect from February 3, 2026. Projects on the no-cost Spark plan lose access to all Cloud Storage buckets, including default buckets; console access redirects to an upgrade page and API calls return 402 or 403. Provisioning a new default bucket also requires Blaze.
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Recommended Migration Targets

These alternatives were identified from Firebase’s pricing changes as recommended replacements.

Backblaze B2 stable recommended
Free Allowance
Storage Verified 2026-08-28
PocketBase recommended
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-11
Nhost stable recommended
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-25
Convex stable recommended
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-20
Cloudflare R2 stable recommended
Free
Storage Verified 2026-08-31
Supabase caution discovered 2026-09-03 restructured recommended
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-17
Appwrite Cloud caution discovered 2026-09-05 reduced recommended
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-23

All Free Alternatives (15)

15 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 0 are demoted with the reason named, and 0 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Left out of this list: Koyeb (shares no subtype with this product), CockroachDB (shares no subtype with this product), Turso (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash (shares no subtype with this product), Databricks (Lakeflow Connect) (none of this category's subtypes apply), Aiven (shares no subtype with this product), Xata (shares no subtype with this product), Cloudflare D1 (shares no subtype with this product), Hasura Cloud (extends another product), Cloudflare KV (shares no subtype with this product), Momento (shares no subtype with this product), Nile (shares no subtype with this product), DynamoDB Local (runs only on a developer machine), Redis Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), Prisma Accelerate (extends another product), Weaviate (shares no subtype with this product), Zilliz Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), LanceDB (shares no subtype with this product), Upstash Vector (shares no subtype with this product), Chroma (shares no subtype with this product), Turbopuffer (shares no subtype with this product), Gel (we have not classified this record), CrateDB (shares no subtype with this product), Neo4j AuraDB (shares no subtype with this product), InfluxDB Cloud (shares no subtype with this product), SeaTable (none of this category's subtypes apply), skyvia.com (none of this category's subtypes apply), StackBy (none of this category's subtypes apply), ScaleGrid Startup Program (none of this category's subtypes apply), Google Cloud BigQuery (shares no subtype with this product), Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

restdb.io stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-27
Backblaze B2 stable
Free Allowance
Storage Verified 2026-08-28
Free
Databases Verified 2026-07-15
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-11
filess.io stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-28
codehooks.io caution discovered 2026-08-28 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-07-15
SurrealDB Cloud caution 2026-04-12 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-27
Neon stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-09-01
Free
Databases Verified 2026-07-15
Nhost stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-25
Convex stable
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-20
Cloudflare R2 stable
Free
Storage Verified 2026-08-31
Supabase caution discovered 2026-09-03 restructured
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-17
Appwrite Cloud caution discovered 2026-09-05 reduced
Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-23
MongoDB Atlas stable
M0 Free
Databases Verified 2026-08-26
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-06
query_key
alternative-to:Firebase
seed
d460a6492ca6535afbdea7101de42b721b99048afb4858002d4bc54d8c46bffd
tie_count
15

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Firebase?
The best free alternatives to Firebase include restdb.io (Free), Backblaze B2 (Free Allowance), filess.io (Free), Neon (Free), Nhost (Free).
Is Firebase's free tier still available?
Yes, Firebase currently offers a free tier (Spark). 2 recorded changes narrowed the terms, the most recent on 2026-03-19.
How many free alternatives to Firebase exist?
There are 15 free alternatives to Firebase tracked on AgentDeals across the Databases, Storage categories.
Has Firebase changed their pricing?
Firebase has 2 recorded pricing changes. The most recent was on 2026-03-19: Firebase Studio (formerly Project IDX) shut down March 19, 2026. Cloud IDE and AI code generation features discontinued. Existing projects accessible until March 2027 for migration

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