🆚 Firebase vs. Microsoft Azure

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Microsoft Azure is four times more popular than Firebase.
🌎 Microsoft Azure is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Firebase is more popular in Japan, India, and Indonesia.

Firebase

Microsoft Azure

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.

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that provides a broad range of on-demand services for building, deploying, and managing applications, infrastructure, and data across global Microsoft data centers.

It offers more than 200 cloud products and services, including scalable virtual machines, managed databases, serverless computing, object storage, analytics, identity and access management, and AI and machine learning tools.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

firebase.google.com

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

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

Free tier ✔️180,000 vCPU seconds for container apps + 1M Function requests + 100 GB of outbound data transfer + 1,000 Cosmos DB request units per-second provisioned throughput with 25 GB storage + 100,000 vCore seconds of SQL database serverless usage with 32 GB of storage per month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Microsoft Azure cloud service is 4 times more popular than Firebase.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Services

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Microsoft Azure is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Firebase is more popular in Japan, India, and Indonesia.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Netherlands

Germany

Japan

Canada

Brazil

Sweden

France

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.

🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the Cloud Services category.
🥈 Second most popular in Qatar in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Cloud Services category.
🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Cloud Services category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Microsoft Azure is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Firebase is more commonly used on general news and blogs and wiki sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Health

Software/Hardware

Travel

Internet Services

Fashion/Beauty