🆚 Firebase vs. Google App Engine

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Firebase is slightly more popular than Google App Engine.
🌎 Firebase is more popular in India, Brazil, and France.
🌎 Google App Engine is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

Firebase

Google App Engine

Type

Cloud service

About

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.

Google App Engine is a cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

firebase.google.com

cloud.google.com/appengine

Pricing

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

Free tier ✔️28 hours of F1 instances + 9 hours of B1 instances + 1 GB of outbound data transfer per day

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Firebase cloud service is 1.1 times more popular than Google App Engine.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Firebase is more popular in India, Brazil, and France, while Google App Engine is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

India

Brazil

Germany

France

Australia

Canada

Italy

Awards

🥇 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.

🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Cloud Services category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Japan in the Cloud Services category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Iran in the Cloud Services category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Ukraine in the Cloud Services category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Switzerland in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Firebase is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while Google App Engine is more commonly used on education and reference, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and motor vehicles sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

General News

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Sports

Fashion/Beauty