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Firebase vs Salad

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What's good about...

Firebase logo Firebase

  • 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

Salad logo Salad

  • 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 190+ countries
  • Consumer cards from GTX 1050 Ti to RTX 5090
  • Four priority levels trade interruption risk against cost
  • SOC 2 Type I compliant, containers isolated by hypervisor
  • No charge while your container downloads and starts

Price comparison

How do Firebase's prices compare against Salad?

Object Storage

Firebase Firebase
$26.90 /mo 1 TB stored, 1M download + 100k upload operations
Salad Salad
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Serverless 25M Executions

Firebase Firebase
$44.66 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration · $0.40 / 1M invocations + Cloud Run CPU and memory rates
Salad Salad
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Free egress allowance

Firebase Firebase
360 MB/day on Hosting (~10 GB/mo)
Salad Salad
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Firebase Firebase
$150.00 $0.15 / GB (Hosting)
Salad Salad
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Salad logo Salad Pricing Details

Salad bills per second while an instance runs, and charges nothing while a container group allocates or pulls its image.

GPU container groups are priced per GPU per hour at one of four priority levels, vCPU and RAM included. CPU-only groups bill per vCPU and per GB. Credits are prepaid, with volume discounts of 2-10%.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Firebase Firebase
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Salad Salad
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Salad offers 35 GPU models.

Firebase Firebase
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Salad Salad
RTX 5090(2) RTX 4090(2) A5000(2) RTX 3090(2) RTX 4080(2) RTX 5080(2) RTX 4060(2) RTX 3060(4) RTX 3060 Ti(2) RTX 3070(2)
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Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Firebase and Salad offer:

Service Firebase Salad
Analytics
App Testing
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication

Company details

Website
Firebase Firebase
firebase.google.com
Salad Salad
salad.com
Headquarters
Firebase Firebase
United States of America US flag
Salad Salad
United States of America US flag
Founded
Firebase Firebase
2011
Salad Salad
2018
Data Center Locations
Firebase Firebase
42
Salad Salad
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Example Customers
Firebase Firebase
The New York Times, Duolingo, Venmo, Trivago, Ctrip, Gameloft
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Firebase was last updated on July 27, 2026, and for Salad on Sept. 11, 2026.