# Firebase Hosting review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Google's CDN hosting for static and single-page web apps Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Firebase Hosting serves static sites and single-page apps from a global CDN with built-in SSL and custom domains. Sites are deployed with the Firebase CLI, and preview channels let a team look at changes before they go live. For full-stack web apps, Firebase points to its separate App Hosting product instead. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Google - **Website:** https://firebase.google.com/products/hosting - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you need a full-stack app, since that goes to a different product. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Firebase Hosting has a free plan, and paid plans start at $0.026 per GB stored beyond 10 GB (Blaze, pay as you go). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Spark plan: 10 GB of storage and 360 MB of data transfer a day, with custom domain, global CDN and SSL included, and no payment method needed. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Spark (no-cost) | $0 | 10 GB of storage, 360 MB a day of data transfer, custom domain and SSL, and multiple sites per project. | | Blaze (pay as you go) | $0 no base fee; usage billed beyond the Spark amounts | Storage is free up to 10 GB, then $0.026 per GB. Data transfer is free up to 360 MB a day, then $0.15 per GB. May include $300 in free credit if eligible. | Read from https://firebase.google.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Firebase Hosting before buying. ## Key features - **Global CDN and SSL:** Files are cached at CDN edges worldwide and served as gzip or Brotli, with zero-configuration SSL certificates. - **Preview channels:** A change can be deployed to a temporary, shareable preview channel for review before it goes live. - **One-command deploys:** Sites built with frameworks such as React, Vite and Vue deploy with firebase deploy, and rollbacks use the same CLI. - **GitHub Actions:** A GitHub Actions integration deploys automatically on push. - **Logging and analytics:** Server-side analytics through Cloud Logging show visitors, response statuses and request latency. - **Localized content:** The product page says content can be served by country and language through the CDN. ## Good for - Static sites and single-page apps - Developers already using other Firebase or Google Cloud products - Small projects that stay within the no-cost transfer allowance ## Worth knowing - Data transfer is limited to 360 MB a day on the no-cost plan, which a busy site can pass quickly. - It is aimed at static and single-page apps; full-stack web apps are pointed to App Hosting. - Going past the Spark limits needs the Blaze plan, which bills usage and needs a payment method. - The pricing page lists the Blaze credit of $300 only for eligible accounts. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Firebase Hosting serves static sites and single-page apps from Google's CDN, free up to 10 GB stored and 360 MB of transfer a day. A busy site passes that quickly, and going past it means the Blaze plan with a payment method. - **Value for money: B.** Free up to the Spark limits, then $0.026 per GB stored and $0.15 per GB of transfer with no base fee. There's no fixed plan price to compare, so this is a judgement on small sites. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Spark needs no payment method: 10 GB storage, 360 MB a day of transfer, custom domain and SSL. Enough for a small site. - **Features: C.** CDN, SSL, preview channels, rollbacks and GitHub Actions. The gap: it's for static and single-page apps, and full-stack apps go to App Hosting. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. You deploy with the firebase command line and a config file. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with GitHub Actions, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run and Cloud Logging. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Google's Firebase's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Firebase Hosting's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 45 of the 54 other web hosts we grade, and level with 5. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 49 of 54) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Your call.** Firebase Hosting sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule. - You could not: It plugs into other products, GitHub Actions, Cloud Functions and Cloud Run among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with GitHub Actions, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Cloud Logging, React, Vue, Vite **Tags:** Page speed, Public API ## Alternatives - [Netlify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/netlify): Git-based hosting for sites and web apps, priced by monthly credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/firebase-hosting-vs-netlify) - [Vercel](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vercel): Git-based hosting for front-end and full-stack web apps. 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