Firebase Cloud Messaging vs Amazon SNS pricing
Both are in push notification apis. Firebase Cloud Messaging is billed free (transport); Amazon SNS is billed per million ($0.50/m push). Numbers below are copied from each vendor's pricing page.
Firebase Cloud MessagingFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- Unlimited (free)
- Billed
- Free (transport)
- Best for
- Free cross-platform push transport
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Amazon SNSFree tier or trial
- Free tier
- 1M mobile push/mo free
- Billed
- Per million ($0.50/M push)
- Best for
- Hyperscale pub/sub + mobile push
- Verified
- Jun 27, 2026
Firebase Cloud Messaging plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Spark (free) | $0 | No-cost plan; FCM messaging is fully free and unlimited with no per-message charge or message-count cap. |
| Blaze (pay-as-you-go) | $0 for FCM | Pay-as-you-go plan with a linked Cloud Billing account; FCM itself remains free, you only pay for other Firebase/GCP services you use. New upgrades may receive $300 in free Google Cloud credit. |
Amazon SNS plans
| Plan | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Free Tier (permanent) | $0 | 1M mobile push notifications/month, 1M API requests, first 1,000 emails, first 100 US SMS, 100,000 HTTP/HTTPS deliveries |
| Mobile Push Notifications | $0.50 / 1M | Charged after the 1M/month free tier; same rate across regions |
| API Requests (Standard topics) | $0.50 / 1M | Each 64KB of published data billed as one request (256KB = 4 requests) |
| HTTP/HTTPS Deliveries | $0.60 / 1M | First 100,000 deliveries free |
| Email/Email-JSON | $2.00 / 100,000 | First 1,000 notifications free |
| SMS (US) | $0.0025 / message | First 100 US messages free; global average ~$0.0075, plus carrier fees by country |
- 64KB-chunk billing means a 256KB message counts as four requests, inflating costs unexpectedly