Convex vs Firebase Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Free & Starter
- Developers (1-6)
- File storage
- Text search
- Vector search
- Crons
- Auth
- Node.js actions
- Health & insights dashboard
- Preview deployments
- Selectable data region
Professional
Popular- Developers (1-20)
- Log streaming
- Exception reporting
- HIPAA/SOC 2 reports
- Daily backups
- Custom domains
- Email support
Business & Enterprise
- Developers (50+)
- SAML/SSO
- Service SLAs
- High-scale dedicated deployments
- Custom MSA
- Volume pricing
No-cost (Spark plan)
- Generous no-cost usage limits
- No payment method needed
- A/B Testing
- Analytics
- App Check
- App Distribution
- Other Authentication services
- Monthly active users
- Monthly active users - SAML/OIDC
- Cloud Firestore - Stored data
- Cloud Firestore - Network egress
- Cloud Firestore - Document writes
- Cloud Firestore - Document reads
- Cloud Firestore - Document deletes
- Cloud Messaging (FCM)
- Crashlytics
- SQL Connect - Network egress
- SQL Connect - Operation count
- SQL Connect - Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
- Hosting - Storage
- Hosting - Data transfer
- Custom domain & SSL
- Multiple sites per project
- In-App Messaging
- Performance Monitoring
- Simultaneous connections
- Realtime Database - GB stored
- Realtime Database - GB downloaded
- Remote Config
- Virtual Device Tests
- Physical Device Tests
- Android Device Streaming
- Firebase AI Logic
- BigQuery
- Gemini in Firebase
- Firebase Studio
Pay as you go (Blaze plan)
- Access more services and higher usage levels
- If eligible, get $300 in free credit
- No-cost usage from Spark plan included*
- A/B Testing
- Analytics
- App Check
- App Distribution
- App Hosting - Outgoing bandwidth
- App Hosting - Storage
- App Hosting - Cloud Run
- App Hosting - Cloud Build
- App Hosting - Artifact Registry
- App Hosting - Cloud Logging
- App Hosting - Cloud Secrets Manager
- Phone Auth - All regions
- Other Authentication services
- Monthly active users
- Monthly active users - SAML/OIDC
- Cloud Firestore - Stored data
- Cloud Firestore - Network egress
- Cloud Firestore - Document writes
- Cloud Firestore - Document reads
- Cloud Firestore - Document deletes
- Cloud Functions - Invocations
- Cloud Functions - GB-seconds
- Cloud Functions - CPU-seconds
- Cloud Functions - Outbound networking
- Cloud Functions - Cloud Build minutes
- Cloud Functions - Container storage in Artifact Registry
- Cloud Messaging (FCM)
- Cloud Storage - GB stored (*.appspot.com)
- Cloud Storage - GB downloaded (*.appspot.com)
- Cloud Storage - Upload operations (*.appspot.com)
- Cloud Storage - Download operations (*.appspot.com)
- Cloud Storage - GB stored (*.firebasestorage.app)
- Cloud Storage - GB downloaded (*.firebasestorage.app)
- Cloud Storage - Upload operations (*.firebasestorage.app)
- Cloud Storage - Download operations (*.firebasestorage.app)
- Multiple buckets per project
- Crashlytics
- SQL Connect - Network egress
- SQL Connect - Operation count
- SQL Connect - Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL
- Hosting - Storage
- Hosting - Data transfer
- Custom domain & SSL
- Multiple sites per project
- In-App Messaging
- Performance Monitoring
- Phone number verification
- Simultaneous connections
- Realtime Database - GB stored
- Realtime Database - GB downloaded
- Multiple databases per project
- Remote Config
- Virtual Device Tests
- Physical Device Tests
- Android Device Streaming
- Firebase AI Logic
- BigQuery
- Other IaaS
- Gemini in Firebase
- Firebase Studio
Convex vs Firebase FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- One or both use custom pricing, so it depends on your specific needs.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Both offer free plans, so you can try each without paying. Start with whichever fits your workflow better and upgrade when you hit the limits.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Convex uses hybrid pricing, while Firebase goes with usage-based. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Convex: At $25/dev/month, Convex is priced aggressively against backend-as-a-service competitors like Firebase or Supabase, positioning itself as the developer-friendly, affordable alternative to rolling your own infra. The $2,500 enterprise floor signals they're not chasing SMBs at scale — they want serious engineering teams willing to pay for reliability. Firebase: Firebase positions as the low-friction, Google-backed alternative to rolling your own backend infra — competing with Supabase, AWS Amplify, and PlanetScale. They're not the cheapest at scale (GCP pricing adds up), but the free tier is generous enough to win early-stage developers before costs become a real conversation.
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