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Firebase vs Thunder Compute

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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

Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

  • RTX A6000, L40, A100 and H100, 1 to 8 GPUs
  • Per-minute billing, charged only while an instance runs
  • One-click VS Code and Cursor connections
  • MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
  • 100 GB persistent disk per GPU, no egress fees

Price comparison

How do Firebase's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Block Storage

Firebase Firebase
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
$21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included

Object Storage

Firebase Firebase
$26.90 /mo 1 TB stored, 1M download + 100k upload operations
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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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
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Free egress allowance

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

Firebase Firebase
$150.00 $0.15 / GB (Hosting)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Firebase Firebase
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

Thunder Compute offers 4 GPU models.

Firebase Firebase
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Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100(4) A100(4) RTX A6000(1) L40(4)

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 Thunder Compute offer:

Service Firebase Thunder Compute
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
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
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Firebase Firebase
United States of America US flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Firebase Firebase
2011
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Firebase Firebase
42
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Firebase Firebase
The New York Times, Duolingo, Venmo, Trivago, Ctrip, Gameloft
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

Alternatives to consider

Compare Firebase and Thunder Compute against other cloud providers.

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