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Index Vendors › Firebase · September 2026 Edition
Google · 4 categories · Ranked

Firebase

45Judge labels
1First choices
4Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-09-16.3, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Mobile apps for small business buyers
Rank 11 of 136 in the mid-market standing
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In mobile apps · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Firebase for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Mobile appsMarketing2%11 of 1360%7under 10 labels · led by Meta Advantage+ App Campaigns at 15%
In-app messaging and customer communicationsCustomer0%24 of 1130%8under 10 labels · led by Intercom at 20%
Mobile marketing and pushMarketing0%36 of 7520%5under 10 labels · led by OneSignal at 34%
Retail, proximity and IoT marketingMarketing0%91 of 1310%1under 10 labels · led by Radar at 19%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Firebase yet. The next is due October 1, 2026. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Firebase across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501102
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash11002
Perplexity Sonar02002
Grok 4.1 Fast01405
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash02114
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX01102
MiniMax M2.500101

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative10 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained18 labels1
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative45 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“The gold standard for free mobile app analytics... Set up Firebase to track what users do inside your app.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Mobile apps · budget prompt · first choice
“Firebase is listed among entry points with free tier pricing options, making it an excellent choice for companies with minimal budgets.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · In-app messaging · budget prompt · alternative
“a strong fit for SDK-driven analytics and audience-based messaging, especially earlier-stage teams” Perplexity Sonar · Mobile apps · comparative prompt · alternative
“Google's backend service; great for simple apps if you are already building on the Google stack.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · In-app messaging · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“mid-sized companies should avoid "native" builders (like Firebase directly) due to poor reporting” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Mobile & push · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Firebase, over the 45 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Firebase was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
OneSignal38 of 4511Not in the top three
Braze24 of 454Not in the top three
CleverTap19 of 451Not in the top three
AppsFlyer15 of 454Not in the top three
Airship12 of 452Not in the top three
Google App Campaigns10 of 452Not in the top three
MoEngage10 of 450Not in the top three
Appcues9 of 452Not in the top three
Adjust9 of 451Not in the top three
Branch9 of 451Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Firebase. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 45 answers that named Firebase and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

userpilot.com3
wifitalents.com3
adlibrary.com2
apsteq.com2
f6s.com2
gartner.com2
gitnux.org2
guideflow.com2
hellyeahai.com2
insiderone.com2

Twenty-two of the twenty-two domain citations in answers naming Firebase came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Firebase

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Firebase; a claim can dispute any of them.
Firebase (Google Cloud Firestore + Cloud Messaging) 1Firebase (Google) 1Firebase (by Google) 1

The company

Google Search is the company behind Firebase.
Website
google.com
Headquarters
United States
Founded
1997

From Wikidata, fetched September 14, 2026. These describe the company, not the product's standing, and a claimed page can dispute any of them. · Wikidata

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Firebase's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Firebase, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at firebase.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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