🆚 DigitalOcean vs. Firebase

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 DigitalOcean is three times more popular than Firebase.
🌎 DigitalOcean is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
🌍 Firebase is more popular in Japan, Russia, and Taiwan.

Type

Cloud service

About

DigitalOcean is a cloud computing service that offers a range of cloud computing solutions, including virtual machines, object storage, managed databases, managed Kubernetes, and more.

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

New York, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

digitalocean.com #9,326

firebase.google.com

Pricing

Free version ❌Free 60-day trial

Droplets$4+/month

Kubernetes$12+/month

Databases$15+/month

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.

The DigitalOcean cloud service is 3 times more popular than Firebase.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

DigitalOcean is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, while Firebase is more popular in Japan, Russia, and Taiwan.

United States

United Kingdom

India

Netherlands

Germany

Canada

Brazil

Italy

Indonesia

Japan

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the Maldives in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Slovakia in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Georgia in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Faroe Islands in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Nepal in the Cloud Services category.

🥇 Most popular in Belarus in the Cloud Services category.
🥇 Most popular in Iran 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.

DigitalOcean is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Firebase is more commonly used on general news, real estate, and finance and banking sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

General News

Entertainment

Travel

Sports