Firebase
vs
Koyeb
What's good about each
- Generous free tier for small to medium projects
- Real-time database with synchronization
- Complete user auth system with social login
- Seamless integration with other Google Cloud services
- Solid mobile SDK for iOS and Android
- Per-second billing with scale-to-zero, on GPUs as well as CPU
- Wide GPU range, up to 8x H200
- Serverless PostgreSQL available
- Integrations with Terraform, Pulumi, and a CLI
- Based in the EU, may ease compliance requirements
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Firebase | Koyeb | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $10.71 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB SSD (small) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $42.85 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD (eco-xlarge) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $85.71 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD (eco-2xlarge) | |
| Object storage | $26.90 /mo 1 TB stored, 1M download + 100k upload operations | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $144.04 /mo 1 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Large) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | Included in plan | |
| Serverless | $44.66 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration · $0.40 / 1M invocations + Cloud Run CPU and memory rates | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 360 MB/day on Hosting (~10 GB/mo) | 100 GB / mo on the free tier, 1 TB / mo on Pro and above | |
| Egress | $150.00 /TB $0.15 / GB (Hosting) | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB · US and EU regions; Asia is $0.04 / GB | 7.5x more expensive on Firebase |
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.
GPUs
Koyeb offers 9 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Firebase. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Firebase | Koyeb | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
4 configs
|
-- | $2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
B200
1 config
|
-- | $5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
H200
4 configs
|
-- | $3.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
-- | $2.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
A100
8 configs
|
-- | $1.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
L40S
1 config
|
-- | $1.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
RTX A6000
1 config
|
-- | $0.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
L4
1 config
|
-- | $0.70 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
|
RTX 4000 SFF Ada
1 config
|
-- | $0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Koyeb only |
Koyeb bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Firebase | Koyeb |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | USA | France |
| Locations | 42 | 7 |
| Example customers | The New York Times, Duolingo, Venmo, Trivago, Ctrip, Gameloft | Tesla, Equinix, Upstash, MongoDB, Kong, Aiven |
| Website | firebase.google.com | koyeb.com |
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Our data for Firebase was last updated on July 27, 2026, and for Koyeb on Sept. 12, 2026.