Firebase
Why Replace Firebase? Firebase bills you per operation. At small scale, it's free. At medium scale, costs become unpredictable — and at production scale, they can be shocking. A Firebase project pr...
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Why Replace Firebase? Firebase bills you per operation. At small scale, it's free. At medium scale, costs become unpredictable — and at production scale, they can be shocking. A Firebase project processing 50,000 document reads/day, 10,000 auth operations/month, and 50 GB of storage runs $50-200/month depending on patterns. The same workload on a $5/month VPS running Appwrite or PocketBase costs exactly $5/month, regardless of how many reads, writes, or auth operations you perform. Beyond cost, Firebase locks you into Google's ecosystem. Firestore's data model doesn't export cleanly to standard SQL. Cloud Functions run on Google Cloud only. Firebase Auth doesn't give you user password hashes for migration. Every month on Firebase adds more switching costs. Factor Firebase (Blaze Plan) Self-Hosted (Appwrite/PocketBase) Cost model Per-operation billing Fixed server cost Typical monthly cost $50-200+ at scale $5-20 (VPS) Auth operations 10K free, then $0.01-0.06/verification Unlimited Dat