Atlas Cloud
vs
Firebase
What's good about each
- Fully sovereign infrastructure hosted in Iceland
- Free ingress and egress traffic
- Tier 3 data center, ISO 27001 certified
- Self-service provisioning via UI, CLI, API, Terraform, and Ansible
- Free Spark plan with no payment method needed
- Realtime sync in Firestore and Realtime Database
- SDKs for iOS, Android, web, Flutter and Unity
- Crashlytics, Analytics and Cloud Messaging at no cost
- Runs on Google Cloud in 40+ locations
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Atlas Cloud | Firebase | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $77.58 /mo 1 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 20 GiB storage (a4) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $149.19 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 40 GiB storage (a5) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $298.38 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, 160 GiB storage (a7) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $11.60 /mo 100 GiB Block Storage | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $101.85 /mo 1 TiB stored, S3-compatible | $39.24 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress, 1M download + 100k upload operations | 61% cheaper on Firebase |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $44.66 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration · $0.40 / 1M invocations + Cloud Run CPU and memory rates | |
| Egress allowance | Both ingress and egress are free. Unlimited free egress | 360 MB/day on Hosting (~10 GB/mo) | |
| Egress | Free Egress is always free | $150.00 /TB $0.15 / GB (Hosting) | Free on Atlas Cloud |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Atlas Cloud | Firebase |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Some Firebase services only |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Atlas Cloud | Firebase |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | 2011 |
| Headquarters | Iceland | USA |
| Locations | 1 | 42 |
| Example customers | -- | The New York Times, Duolingo, Venmo, Trivago, Ctrip, Gameloft |
| Website | www.atlascloud.is | firebase.google.com |
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Our data for Atlas Cloud was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Firebase on Sept. 18, 2026.