This slide provides a comparison between Firebase and Back4App backend platforms. This slide explains the differences between Firebase and Back4App plans and pricing.
3. Back4App
Firebase x Back4App Plans Overview
Back4App
- 3 tiers – Free, Shared Hosting, Dedicated Hosting
- Paid plans start at $5/month
- Dedicated hosting starts at $250/month
Firebase
- 3 tiers – Spark (Free), Flame ($25/month), Blaze (Pay as you Go)
- Flame Plan is a capped plan
- Blaze Plan has no upper limit and you pay as you go
4. Back4App
Firebase x Back4App Plans Overview
Back4App
- Free plan ideal for app development
- Pricing is calculated by only 4 variables that are:
- Number of API requests
- Database size
- Bandwidth
- File storage
Firebase
- Free plan ideal for app development
- Pricing is calculated by multiple variables including:
- Authentication requests
- Document read/writes/deletes
- Data storage
- Bandwidth
- Simultaneous connections
- Upload operations / Download operations
- Quantity of tests / day
5. Back4App
Firebase x Back4App Hosting
Hosting Back4App Firebase
Serverless Hosting Yes Yes
Private Cloud Hosting
(Dedicated Hosting)
Yes No
On Premises Deployment Yes No
Enterprise Contracts Yes No
Multi Cloud
(AWS, Azure, AWS, Google
Cloud)
Yes Google Cloud Only
Open Source Yes No
Free Limits Yes Yes
GDPR Yes Yes
6. Back4App
Firebase x Back4App Support Levels
Support Levels Back4App Firebase
24/07 Yes Yes
Documentation Yes Yes
Ticket
(Support Case)
Yes Yes
Chat Yes No
Schedule Calls Yes No
Skype/WhatsApp Yes No
7. Back4App
Firebase x Back4App Main Features
Features Back4App Firebase
Realtime database Yes Yes
Push Notifications Yes Yes
Cloud Functions Yes Yes
Storage Yes Yes
Authentication Yes Yes
Hosting Yes Yes
Test Lab No Yes
ML Kit No Yes
9. Free Tier
Shared Hosting
Dedicated Hosting
Details available at
https://www.back4app.com/parse-pricing
Back4App Partner Program
Back4App Plans Overview
10. Back4App Partner Program
Back4App Plans Overview
Plan Type Price End user needs
Free -
• Development stage
• Learning
• Prototyping
Shared Hosting $5 and up Auto scale applications
Dedicated Hosting $250 and up
• Dedicated Resources
• Customize Environment
• Advanced Security
12. Back4App
Back4App Shared Hosting
Starter Plan
$5/month
Basic Plan
$25/month
Standard Plan
$50/month
Pay as you Go
$100/month
Requests/Month 50k 500k 2M 5M
Database Size 1GB 2GB 3GB 4GB
File Storage 10GB 50GB 150GB 250GB
Data Transfer 50GB 250GB 500GB 1TB
A reliable and efficient serverless architecture
All plans are auto-scalable and each app runs on independent containers. This is a simple way to completely eliminate the
need to manage and operate infrastructure.
Pay as you Go Plan has no upper limit and additional usage will be charged as follows:
Requests: $0.02 for each additional 1000 requests
Database: $15 for each additional GB
File Storage: $0.10 for each additional GB
Data Transfer: $0.10 for each additional GB
17. Back4App
Back4App Dedicated Hosting
Silver Plan
$250/month
Gold Plan
$400/month
Platinum Plan
$1000/month
Requests/Month Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Database Size 40GB 80GB 200GB
File Storage 500GB 1TB 3TB
Data Transfer 2TB 4TB 10TB
Exclusive resources to your apps
Our dedicated plans are secure, robust and scalable. We allow multiple apps on each cluster and run it on dedicated
database / application instances. With these plans, all resources available to the VM (CPU, RAM, Load Balancer, etc) are
exclusively yours.
Dedicated plans have no requests/month limit and hardware limitation only.
Larger tailor made plans available.
18. Exclusive Resources (CPU/RAM)
Hardware limited
Unlimited scaling
Multi Region & Multi Cloud
Advanced Security Settings & Environment Customization
Back4App
Back4App Dedicated Hosting
23. Free Tier – Spark Plan
Fixed Pricing – Flame Plan - $25/month
Pay as you go – Blaze Plan
Back4App
Firebase Plans Overview
24. Back4App Partner Program
Back4App Plans Overview
Plan Type Price End user needs
Free -
• Development stage
• Learning
• Prototyping
Flame Plan $25 Fixed price requirements
Blaze Plan Pay as you go • Auto scale applications
• Pay by the usage
25. Back4App
Firebase Features Overview
- Features are divided into 3 categories (Build better apps, Improve app quality, Grow your business)
- Build better apps
- Cloud Firestore,
- Authentication
- ML
- Cloud Functions
- Hosting
- Storage
- Realtime database
- Improve app quality
- Crashlytics
- Performance monitoring
- Test lab
- Grow your business
- In app messaging
- Google Analytics
- Predictions
- A/B testing
- Messaging
- Dynamic links
31. Back4App
Firebase Blaze Plan
• Pay as you go for apps at scale
• Pay by the usage pricing
• Billed monthly
• Plan limits available at:
https://firebase.google.com/pricing