🆚 Alibaba Cloud vs. Firebase

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Alibaba Cloud is twice as popular as Firebase.
🌍 Alibaba Cloud is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.
🌎 Firebase is more popular in the United States, Japan, and India.

Alibaba Cloud

Firebase

Type

Cloud service

About

Alibaba Cloud is a Chinese cloud computing platform owned by Alibaba Group.

Firebase is a backend-as-a-service platform owned by Google that provides cloud services for web and mobile apps.

It offers realtime and document NoSQL databases, authentication, hosting, cloud storage, serverless functions, analytics, performance monitoring, remote config, and a development workspace with AI-powered tooling.

Headquarters

Hangzhou, China

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

alibabacloud.com #2,130

firebase.google.com

Pricing

Free tier ✔️For new users: ECS instance with 1 vCPU and 1 GB of RAM, 1M AI tokens for 12 months + 100 SMS + 10K emails

Free tier ✔️10 GB storage, 1 GB DB storage, auth for 50K MAUs, 360 MB of data transfer per day

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Alibaba Cloud technology is 2 times more popular than Firebase.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Alibaba Cloud is more popular in China, Indonesia, and Hong Kong, while Firebase is more popular in the United States, Japan, and India.

China

United States

Indonesia

Hong Kong

Japan

India

United Kingdom

Germany

Singapore

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in China in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Hong Kong in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Macao in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Cambodia in the Cloud Services category.

🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the Cloud Services category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Russia in the Cloud Services category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Romania in the Cloud Services category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Alibaba Cloud is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and education and reference, while Firebase is more commonly used on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and general news sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

General News

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Software/Hardware

Games