🆚 Firebase Authentication vs. Google Identity
- 📈 Google Identity is much more popular than Firebase Authentication.
- 🌎 Google Identity is more popular in the United States, India, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Firebase Authentication is more popular in the Maldives.
Type
About
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.
Google Identity is a suite of services and APIs from Google that handles user sign-up, sign-in, and authorization across web and mobile apps.
It offers a "Sign in with Google" button, a "One Tap" prompt, a unified SDK for authorization, and supports passkeys and credential sharing across apps.
Headquarters
Pricing
(email, phone, social)
(OpenID Connect, SAML)
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Authentication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Authentication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Authentication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Authentication category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Authentication category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,363,931 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

