Firebase vs AWS Amplify: Features, Pricing and User Reviews 2026

Firebase offers two main pricing plans to fit different needs. The Spark Plan is completely free and includes generous limits perfect for small apps and testing. You get unlimited basic features with no payment needed, including authentication, analytics, and limited database usage.

The Blaze Plan uses pay-as-you-go pricing where you only pay for what you use beyond the free limits. This plan includes all the free tier benefits plus unlimited usage. For example:

• Cloud Firestore: Free up to 50K reads per day, then pricing starts based on usage

• Cloud Functions: Free up to 2 million calls per month, then $0.40 per million

• Storage: Free up to 5GB, then $0.026 per GB

• Hosting: Free up to 10GB storage and 360MB daily transfer, then minimal fees

Most Firebase services stay free even on the Blaze plan if you stay within the included free limits. You can set spending caps to control costs and avoid surprise charges.

AWS Amplify uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model with a generous free tier for 12 months. Here's how pricing works:

Build and Deploy: You get 1,000 free build minutes monthly (Standard instance). Additional minutes cost $0.01 per minute. Larger instances for complex builds start at $0.025 per minute.

Hosting: Free tier includes 5 GB storage and 15 GB data transfer monthly. Beyond that, storage costs $0.023 per GB monthly, and data transfer is $0.15 per GB served.

Server-Side Rendering: For Next.js and Nuxt apps, you get 500,000 free requests and 100 GB-hours monthly. Additional requests cost $0.30 per million, and compute time is $0.20 per GB-hour.

Backend Services: Individual AWS services like databases (DynamoDB), authentication (Cognito), and storage (S3) have their own pricing and free tiers. Many offer permanent free tiers for small workloads.

Most small to medium projects stay within free tier limits. Larger apps typically cost $10-100 monthly depending on traffic and usage.