Databases · working at 10,000 users · rates as read 26 Sept 2026
On free tier, Firebase is No-cost up to 50K MAUs and Neon is $0 /month. On cheapest paid plan, Firebase is $0 base (Blaze): pay as you go on top of the no-cost quotas and Neon is $0 base (Launch): billed purely on usage. On rate above what's included, Firebase is Storage $0.026/GB, download $0.12/GB, and above 50,000 monthly active users, "Google Cloud pricing" and Neon is $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month on Launch. StackTab sells neither of these and takes no referral fee on either: it scores them. Every figure was read off the named company's own page on or since 2026-09-18; the URLs and the dates are at the foot of this page, and a job re-fetches each one on a schedule and fails when a figure is no longer on the page it came from.
2 compared · 3 criteria, identical for every column · every competitor figure read off that company's own page · last verified 2026-09-18
| Service | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| FirebaseGoogle's document store, auth and functions on one bill.verified 25 Sept 2026firebase.google.com/pricing | $ | price not publishedBlaze | price not publishedBlaze |
| NeonServerless Postgres that scales compute to zero and branches like git.verified 25 Sept 2026neon.com/pricing | $ | $ | $ |
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- Google's document store, auth and functions on one bill.verified 25 Sept 2026firebase.google.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
00 Blaze - 10,000 users
- price not publishedBlaze
- 100,000 users
- price not publishedBlaze
- Serverless Postgres that scales compute to zero and branches like git.verified 25 Sept 2026neon.com/pricing
- 1,000 users
- $
7777 Launch - 10,000 users
- $
7777 Launch - 100,000 users
- $
241241 Launch
| Criterion | Firebase | Neon |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | No-cost up to 50K MAUsThe Spark plan's no-cost quotas are enforced daily and reset at midnight, so a busy day can stop the app rather than bill you. | $0 /monthCompute suspends when idle, which is what makes the free plan usable for something real rather than a demo. |
| Cheapest paid plan | $0 base (Blaze): pay as you go on top of the no-cost quotasBlaze has no monthly platform fee; you pay the meters above the Spark allowances. | $0 base (Launch): billed purely on usageNeon's own words. There is no plan fee at all; you pay compute and storage. |
| Rate above what's included | Storage $0.026/GB, download $0.12/GB, and above 50,000 monthly active users, "Google Cloud pricing"That last cell is the one that matters and it is Firebase's own wording. The authentication line reads "Monthly active users: No-cost up to 50K MAUs: Then Google Cloud pricing", with no rate on this page. | $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month on LaunchScale is $0.222 per CU-hour at the same storage rate. Branches are billed at $0.002 per branch-hour. |
- Free tier: what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words
- Rate above what's included: the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one
Firebase: No-cost up to 50K MAUs. The Spark plan's no-cost quotas are enforced daily and reset at midnight, so a busy day can stop the app rather than bill you. Neon: $0 /month. Compute suspends when idle, which is what makes the free plan usable for something real rather than a demo. Read from firebase.google.com and neon.com on 2026-09-18. Free tier here means what the vendor gives you at $0 a month, in its own words.
Firebase: $0 base (Blaze): pay as you go on top of the no-cost quotas. Blaze has no monthly platform fee; you pay the meters above the Spark allowances. Neon: $0 base (Launch): billed purely on usage. Neon's own words. There is no plan fee at all; you pay compute and storage. Read from firebase.google.com and neon.com on 2026-09-18.
Firebase: Storage $0.026/GB, download $0.12/GB, and above 50,000 monthly active users, "Google Cloud pricing". That last cell is the one that matters and it is Firebase's own wording. The authentication line reads "Monthly active users: No-cost up to 50K MAUs: Then Google Cloud pricing", with no rate on this page. Neon: $0.106 per CU-hour and $0.35 per GB-month on Launch. Scale is $0.222 per CU-hour at the same storage rate. Branches are billed at $0.002 per branch-hour. Read from firebase.google.com and neon.com on 2026-09-18. Rate above what's included here means the per-unit or per-transaction rate the vendor publishes for usage beyond the plan: the figure you need to work out a bill before you commit to one.
Firebase: You are shipping a mobile app that has to keep working on a train. Firestore's client caches writes made offline and reconciles them when the device comes back, and nothing in the Postgres world does that as well out of the box. That single capability can outweigh everything else in this table. Neon: You already have a backend and you want Postgres under it and nothing else. Neon's compute scales to zero, so an idle staging database costs approximately nothing, and its branching gives every pull request a real database: two things a bundled backend platform charges you for whether or not you use the rest of it.
StackTab does not sell any of these and has nothing to gain from which one you choose: it scores them. Each case below is the one that option genuinely wins.
- Firebase: You are shipping a mobile app that has to keep working on a train. Firestore's client caches writes made offline and reconciles them when the device comes back, and nothing in the Postgres world does that as well out of the box. That single capability can outweigh everything else in this table.
- Neon: You already have a backend and you want Postgres under it and nothing else. Neon's compute scales to zero, so an idle staging database costs approximately nothing, and its branching gives every pull request a real database: two things a bundled backend platform charges you for whether or not you use the rest of it.
Prices and limits move, and a page quoting a stale one is worth less than a page quoting none. Every source is printed here so a reader can check it against the day they are reading this, and a job re-fetches each of these URLs on a schedule and fails when a figure above no longer appears on the page it came from.
- Firebase: firebase.google.com/pricing: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
- Neon: neon.com/pricing: Free tier, Cheapest paid plan, Rate above what's included. Read 2026-09-18.
Last verified 2026-09-18. https://stacktab.thecompound.tech/compare/firebase-vs-neon