🆚 Amazon Cognito vs. Firebase Authentication

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Amazon Cognito is slightly more popular than Firebase Authentication.
🌎 Amazon Cognito is more popular in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany.
🌍 Firebase Authentication is more popular in India, Australia, and Canada.

Amazon Cognito

Firebase Authentication

Type

Authentication service

About

Amazon Cognito is a user identity service by Amazon Web Services that lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps.

Firebase Authentication is a backend authentication service that enables applications to sign in users using email and password, third-party identity providers, email links, and phone numbers.

It offers sign-in with services such as Google, Facebook, Apple, and GitHub, provides ready-made UI components and SDKs for web, iOS, Android, and Unity, supports anonymous accounts, and includes phone and multi-factor authentication if used with Identity Platform.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

aws.amazon.com/cognito/

firebase.google.com/products/auth

Pricing

Free tier ✔️10,000 MAUs + 50 SAML/OIDC MAUs per month

Greater than 10,000 MAUs$0.015/MAU

Tier 1 Providers
(email, phone, social)Free tier ✔️0 - 49,999 Monthly Active Users (MAU)
50,000 - 99,999 MAU0.0055/MAU
100,000 - 999,999 MAU0.0046/MAU
1,000,000 - 9,999,999 MAU0.0032/MAU

Tier 2 Providers
(OpenID Connect, SAML)Free tier ✔️0 - 49 Monthly Active Users (MAU)
50+ MAU0.015/MAU

Price per SMS (phone authentication)Free tier ✔️10 SMS per day
USA$0.01
Canada$0.01
UK$0.04
Germany$0.10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Amazon Cognito authentication service is 1.3 times more popular than Firebase Authentication.

Total websites

Market share

Authentication

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Amazon Cognito is more popular in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany, while Firebase Authentication is more popular in India, Australia, and Canada.

United Kingdom

United States

Germany

India

Netherlands

Australia

Spain

Canada

Italy

Brazil

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Authentication category.
⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Authentication category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Authentication category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Italy in the Authentication category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the Authentication category.

⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Authentication category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Authentication category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Canada in the Authentication category.
⭐ 10th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Authentication category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Amazon Cognito is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Firebase Authentication is more commonly used on finance and banking, entertainment, and blogs and wiki sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Health

Finance/Banking

Travel

Entertainment

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki