{"head":{"title":"Auth Pricing Compared: Cost per Monthly Active User","description":"Auth prices per monthly active user from Auth0, Clerk, Supabase, Firebase and AWS Cognito, with free tiers, each read off the vendor's own pricing page.","canonical":"https://oceanlab.in/pricing/categories/auth"},"asOf":"2026-10-25","category":"auth","vendors":[{"id":"aws","name":"AWS","product":"Amazon Web Services (EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, SES, Cognito)","categories":["cloud-hosting","serverless","object-storage","cdn","databases","email-api","auth"],"source":"https://aws.amazon.com/pricing/","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"US East (N. Virginia), on-demand, Linux, USD. No Savings Plans or Reserved Instances. A month is 730 hours. Most prices come from AWS's official Price List API; CloudFront rates are for US edge locations.","plans":[{"id":"cloudfront-free","name":"CloudFront Free (flat-rate)","monthly":0,"summary":"Per distribution. 1M requests and 100GB data transfer a month, 5GB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-pro","name":"CloudFront Pro (flat-rate)","monthly":15,"summary":"Per distribution. 10M requests and 50TB data transfer a month, 50GB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-business","name":"CloudFront Business (flat-rate)","monthly":200,"summary":"Per distribution. 125M requests and 50TB data transfer a month, 1TB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-premium","name":"CloudFront Premium (flat-rate)","monthly":1000,"summary":"Per distribution. 500M requests and 50TB data transfer a month, 5TB S3 storage, no overage charges.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"cloudfront-custom","name":"CloudFront Custom (flat-rate)","monthly":null,"summary":"Custom pricing through a specialist. No usage limit.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/"},{"id":"ses-essentials","name":"SES Essentials","monthly":0,"summary":"No monthly fee. New SES accounts start on this plan from July 21, 2026. $0.16 per 1,000 emails up to 10M.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"},{"id":"ses-pro","name":"SES Pro","monthly":105,"summary":"$105 per account per region per month, plus $0.22 per 1,000 emails up to 10M.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"},{"id":"ses-enterprise","name":"SES Enterprise","monthly":500,"summary":"$500 per account per region per month, plus $0.23 per 1,000 emails up to 10M.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"}],"meters":[{"id":"ec2-t4g-medium","kind":"vm-2cpu-4gb","label":"EC2 t4g.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB, Graviton2), Linux on-demand","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":24.528,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.0336 per hour x 730 hours. Shared tenancy, no extra software. EBS storage is billed separately.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/20261023221355/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"ec2-t3-medium","kind":"vm-2cpu-4gb","label":"EC2 t3.medium (2 vCPU, 4 GiB, Intel), Linux on-demand","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":30.368,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.0416 per hour x 730 hours. Shared tenancy. EBS storage is billed separately.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/20261023221355/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"lambda-requests","kind":"fn-requests","label":"Lambda requests","unit":"request","per":1000000,"price":0.2,"included":1000000,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.0000002 per request. Free tier: 1M requests a month.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSLambda/20261022183959/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"lambda-gb-second","kind":"fn-gb-second","label":"Lambda duration (x86)","unit":"GB-second","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":400000,"price":0},{"upTo":6000000000,"price":0.0000166667},{"upTo":15000000000,"price":0.000015},{"upTo":null,"price":0.0000133334}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"x86 price. First 6 billion GB-seconds a month at $0.0000166667. Free tier: 400,000 GB-seconds a month. Billed per 1 ms.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSLambda/20261022183959/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"s3-standard-storage","kind":"storage-gb","label":"S3 Standard storage","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":51200,"price":0.023},{"upTo":512000,"price":0.022},{"upTo":null,"price":0.021}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"First 50 TB a month at $0.023 per GB.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/20261015173540/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"s3-put-requests","kind":"storage-ops","label":"S3 Standard PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests","unit":"request","per":1000,"price":0.005,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/20261015173540/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"s3-get-requests","kind":"other","label":"S3 Standard GET and other requests","unit":"request","per":1000,"price":0.0004,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.004 per 10,000, shown here per 1,000.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonS3/20261015173540/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"egress-internet","kind":"egress-gb","label":"Data transfer out to the internet (from us-east-1)","unit":"GB","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":100,"price":0},{"upTo":10240,"price":0.09},{"upTo":51200,"price":0.085},{"upTo":153600,"price":0.07},{"upTo":null,"price":0.05}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"First 10 TB at $0.09 per GB, after the free 100 GB. The 100 GB is shared across all AWS services and regions.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AWSDataTransfer/20260916132208/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"cloudfront-gb-us","kind":"cdn-gb","label":"CloudFront data transfer out (United States, Mexico, Canada)","unit":"GB","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":1024,"price":0},{"upTo":10240,"price":0.085},{"upTo":51200,"price":0.08},{"upTo":153600,"price":0.06},{"upTo":512000,"price":0.04},{"upTo":1048576,"price":0.03},{"upTo":5242880,"price":0.025},{"upTo":null,"price":0.02}],"included":0,"note":"Pay-as-you-go. First 1 TB a month is free (Always Free tier), then $0.085 per GB up to 10 TB. Europe is the same for the first tiers.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonCloudFront/20261019150500/aws-other/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"cloudfront-https-requests","kind":"cdn-requests","label":"CloudFront HTTPS requests (United States)","unit":"request","per":1000000,"price":1,"included":10000000,"note":"Page price is $0.0100 per 10,000 HTTPS requests, converted to per 1M. First 10M HTTP or HTTPS requests a month are free.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonCloudFront/20261019150500/aws-other/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"rds-pg-t4g-micro","kind":"db-instance","label":"RDS for PostgreSQL db.t4g.micro, Single-AZ on-demand","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":11.68,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"$0.016 per hour x 730 hours. Storage billed separately.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonRDS/20261020003232/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"rds-pg-gp3","kind":"db-storage-gb","label":"RDS for PostgreSQL gp3 storage, Single-AZ","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.115,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonRDS/20261020003232/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null},{"id":"ses-outbound-alacarte","kind":"email","label":"SES outbound email (a la carte, no plan)","unit":"email","per":1000,"price":0.1,"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"Attachments add $0.12 per GB.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/","plan":null},{"id":"ses-outbound-essentials","kind":"email","label":"SES outbound email on the Essentials plan","unit":"email","per":1000,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000000,"price":0.16},{"upTo":100000000,"price":0.14},{"upTo":null,"price":0.11}],"included":0,"plan":"ses-essentials","region":"us-east-1","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/"},{"id":"cognito-essentials-mau","kind":"mau","label":"Cognito Essentials MAU (direct or social sign-in)","unit":"MAU","per":1,"price":0.015,"included":10000,"region":"us-east-1","note":"Free tier of 10,000 MAUs per account, does not expire. SAML/OIDC users have only 50 free MAUs.","source":"https://aws.amazon.com/cognito/pricing/","plan":null},{"id":"cognito-lite-mau","kind":"mau","label":"Cognito Lite MAU (direct or social sign-in)","unit":"MAU","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":10000,"price":0},{"upTo":100000,"price":0.0055},{"upTo":1000000,"price":0.0046},{"upTo":10000000,"price":0.00325},{"upTo":null,"price":0.0025}],"included":0,"region":"us-east-1","note":"The 10,000 free MAUs come first. We read the paid tiers as counted after them.","source":"https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonCognito/20261020233814/us-east-1/index.json","plan":null}],"notes":[{"title":"Free data transfer","detail":"The first 100 GB a month out to the internet is free. It is shared across all AWS services and regions, not per service."},{"title":"CloudFront free tier","detail":"Pay-as-you-go CloudFront includes 1 TB out and 10M HTTP or HTTPS requests a month, always free. Flat-rate plans are per distribution with no overage charges."},{"title":"Per-second billing","detail":"EC2 Linux on-demand is billed per second, with a 60-second minimum. Lambda duration is rounded up to the nearest 1 ms."},{"title":"Lambda and Cognito free tiers","detail":"Lambda includes 1M requests and 400,000 GB-seconds a month. Cognito Lite and Essentials include 10,000 MAUs a month, and this does not expire."}],"unverified":["CloudFront request price for Europe (only the US price is shown).","The RDS free tier for new accounts, since eligibility varies.","A free SES allowance: none was found on the SES page.","Where the Cognito Lite volume tiers start: we read them as counted after the 10,000 free MAUs."],"payg":true},{"id":"supabase","name":"Supabase","product":"Supabase (Postgres, Auth, Storage, Edge Functions)","categories":["databases","auth","object-storage","edge-functions"],"source":"https://supabase.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, monthly billing, list prices. Overage prices are for Pro and Team (same rates). Compute is billed hourly per project; ~730 hours = 1 month. Paid plans include $10/month of compute credits.","plans":[{"id":"free","name":"Free","monthly":0,"summary":"500 MB database, 50,000 MAU, 5 GB egress, 1 GB file storage; max 2 active projects","source":"https://supabase.com/pricing"},{"id":"pro","name":"Pro","monthly":25,"summary":"From $25/month; 8 GB disk, 100,000 MAU, 250 GB egress, 100 GB file storage; first project included","source":"https://supabase.com/pricing"},{"id":"team","name":"Team","monthly":599,"summary":"From $599/month; Pro plus SOC2, SSO, 14-day backups","source":"https://supabase.com/pricing"},{"id":"enterprise","name":"Enterprise","monthly":null,"summary":"Custom pricing","source":"https://supabase.com/pricing"}],"meters":[{"id":"compute-micro","kind":"db-instance","label":"Micro compute (shared CPU, 1 GB RAM), per project","unit":"instance-month","per":1,"price":10,"included":0,"plan":"pro","note":"$0.01344/hour, about $10 for 730 hours. The $10 monthly compute credit on paid plans covers one Micro.","source":"https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/manage-your-usage/compute"},{"id":"db-disk","kind":"db-storage-gb","label":"Database disk (gp3) beyond 8 GB per project","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.125,"included":8,"plan":"pro","source":"https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/manage-your-usage/disk-size"},{"id":"egress","kind":"egress-gb","label":"Uncached egress beyond 250 GB","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.09,"included":250,"plan":"pro","source":"https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/manage-your-usage/egress"},{"id":"cached-egress","kind":"other","label":"Cached egress (CDN) beyond 250 GB","unit":"GB","per":1,"price":0.03,"included":250,"plan":"pro","source":"https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/manage-your-usage/egress"},{"id":"mau","kind":"mau","label":"Auth monthly active users beyond 100,000","unit":"MAU","per":1,"price":0.00325,"included":100000,"plan":"pro","source":"https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/manage-your-usage/monthly-active-users"},{"id":"file-storage","kind":"storage-gb","label":"File storage beyond 100 GB","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.0213,"included":100,"plan":"pro","source":"https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/manage-your-usage/storage-size"},{"id":"edge-fn","kind":"edge-requests","label":"Edge Function invocations beyond 2 million","unit":"invocation","per":1000000,"price":2,"included":2000000,"plan":"pro","note":"Billed in whole packages of 1 million.","source":"https://supabase.com/pricing"},{"id":"sso-mau","kind":"other","label":"SAML SSO monthly active users beyond 50","unit":"MAU","per":1,"price":0.015,"included":50,"plan":"pro","source":"https://supabase.com/docs/guides/platform/billing-on-supabase"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free tier","detail":"Free projects pause after 1 week of inactivity, and you can have 2 active free projects."},{"title":"Spend cap","detail":"Pro has a spend cap on by default. Turn it off to pay for usage beyond the plan's quota."},{"title":"Compute credits","detail":"Paid plans include $10 a month in compute credits, enough for one Micro instance. Compute is billed hourly."}],"unverified":["Team and Enterprise overage rates beyond what the docs tables show (Enterprise is custom).","Whether the Pro spend cap covers every meter (the page does not list which items are capped)."]},{"id":"firebase","name":"Firebase","product":"Firebase (Firestore, Auth, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions)","categories":["databases","auth","object-storage","serverless"],"source":"https://firebase.google.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, Blaze (pay as you go). Firestore Standard edition and Cloud Storage prices are for Iowa (us-central1); multi-region locations cost more. Google lists storage per GiB-hour; we multiply by 730 for a month. Firestore free quotas are daily; the monthly figure uses 30 days.","plans":[{"id":"spark","name":"Spark","monthly":0,"summary":"No-cost usage limits, no payment method needed","source":"https://firebase.google.com/pricing"},{"id":"blaze","name":"Blaze","monthly":0,"summary":"Pay as you go; includes the Spark no-cost usage, then Google Cloud pricing","source":"https://firebase.google.com/pricing"}],"meters":[{"id":"fs-reads","kind":"other","label":"Firestore document reads","unit":"document read","per":100000,"price":0.03,"included":1500000,"plan":"blaze","region":"us-central1","note":"Free quota is 50,000 reads per day.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/firestore/pricing"},{"id":"fs-writes","kind":"other","label":"Firestore document writes","unit":"document write","per":100000,"price":0.09,"included":600000,"plan":"blaze","region":"us-central1","note":"Free quota is 20,000 writes per day.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/firestore/pricing"},{"id":"fs-deletes","kind":"other","label":"Firestore document deletes","unit":"document delete","per":100000,"price":0.01,"included":600000,"plan":"blaze","region":"us-central1","note":"Free quota is 20,000 deletes per day.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/firestore/pricing"},{"id":"fs-storage","kind":"db-storage-gb","label":"Firestore stored data beyond 1 GiB","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.15,"included":1,"plan":"blaze","region":"us-central1","note":"Page shows $0.000205479 per GiB-hour; x730 hours = $0.15 per GiB-month.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/firestore/pricing"},{"id":"gcs-storage","kind":"storage-gb","label":"Cloud Storage, Standard class","unit":"GB-month","per":1,"price":0.02,"included":5,"plan":"blaze","region":"us-central1","note":"Page shows $0.000027397 per GiB-hour; x730 = $0.02 per GiB-month. 5 GB-months free only in us-central1, us-west1, us-east1.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing"},{"id":"gcs-egress","kind":"egress-gb","label":"Cloud Storage data transfer to the internet (worldwide, excl. Asia and Australia)","unit":"GB","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":100,"price":0},{"upTo":10240,"price":0.12},{"upTo":153600,"price":0.11},{"upTo":null,"price":0.08}],"included":0,"plan":"blaze","note":"Tiers are in GiB (10 TiB, 150 TiB). Firebase includes 100 GB/month downloaded for *.firebasestorage.app buckets.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing"},{"id":"auth-mau","kind":"mau","label":"Authentication (with Identity Platform), email/phone/anonymous/social sign-in","unit":"MAU","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":50000,"price":0},{"upTo":100000,"price":0.0055},{"upTo":1000000,"price":0.0046},{"upTo":10000000,"price":0.0032},{"upTo":null,"price":0.0025}],"included":0,"plan":null,"note":"Firebase page: no-cost up to 50K MAUs, then Google Cloud pricing. Phone auth SMS billed separately. SAML/OIDC: 50 free, then $0.015/MAU.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/identity-platform/pricing"},{"id":"fn-invocations","kind":"fn-requests","label":"Cloud Functions invocations beyond 2 million","unit":"invocation","per":1000000,"price":0.4,"included":2000000,"plan":"blaze","note":"GB-seconds and CPU-seconds are billed separately at Google Cloud pricing.","source":"https://firebase.google.com/pricing"}],"notes":[{"title":"Free tier","detail":"Spark is free and needs no payment method. Blaze keeps the Spark no-cost usage and bills the rest."},{"title":"Firestore","detail":"One free database per project. Free quota: 1 GiB stored, 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes and 20,000 deletes a day."},{"title":"Cloud Storage","detail":"No-cost storage quotas only apply to buckets in us-central1, us-west1 and us-east1."}],"unverified":["Firestore nam5 (multi-region) prices: the fetched table showed the default us-central1 values only.","Firestore network egress per-GB price.","Cloud Functions GB-second and CPU-second rates (Firebase page defers to Google Cloud pricing).","Any hard spend cap on Blaze (not stated on the pricing page)."]},{"id":"auth0","name":"Auth0","product":"Auth0 by Okta (B2C)","categories":["auth"],"source":"https://auth0.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, B2C plans, monthly billing, at the smallest MAU option (500).","plans":[{"id":"free","name":"Free","monthly":0,"summary":"Up to 25,000 monthly active users","source":"https://auth0.com/pricing"},{"id":"essentials","name":"Essentials (B2C)","monthly":35,"summary":"Up to 500 monthly active users","source":"https://auth0.com/pricing"},{"id":"professional","name":"Professional (B2C)","monthly":240,"summary":"Shown at 500 monthly active users","source":"https://auth0.com/pricing"},{"id":"enterprise","name":"Enterprise","monthly":null,"summary":"Custom","source":"https://auth0.com/pricing"}],"meters":[{"id":"mau-free","kind":"mau","label":"MAUs on Free","unit":"MAU","per":1,"price":0,"included":25000,"plan":"free","source":"https://auth0.com/pricing"},{"id":"mau-essentials","kind":"mau","label":"MAUs on Essentials (500 MAU option)","unit":"MAU","per":1,"price":0,"included":500,"plan":"essentials","note":"Bigger MAU options cost more; Auth0 does not list a per-MAU overage.","source":"https://auth0.com/pricing"}],"notes":[{"title":"Priced by MAU tier","detail":"Paid plans are priced by a monthly active user tier picked on a slider (500 up to 30,000+), not per user overage."},{"title":"Free plan","detail":"Free covers up to 25,000 MAUs with 1 custom domain and 5 organizations."},{"title":"B2B costs more","detail":"B2B plans are priced separately and keep Enterprise Connections, Self-Service SSO and SCIM."}],"unverified":["A per-MAU overage price: paid plans move up MAU tiers instead.","Professional's lowest MAU option: the card says 500, the page data starts at 1,000.","That $35 and $240 are monthly-billed prices: the visible text does not say."]},{"id":"clerk","name":"Clerk","product":"Clerk authentication","categories":["auth"],"source":"https://clerk.com/pricing","checkedAt":"2026-10-25","assumptions":"USD, monthly billing (annual shown for reference). Clerk counts monthly retained users (MRU), not MAU.","plans":[{"id":"hobby","name":"Hobby","monthly":0,"summary":"50,000 MRUs per app","source":"https://clerk.com/pricing"},{"id":"pro","name":"Pro","monthly":25,"summary":"50,000 MRUs per app included, $20/mo billed annually","source":"https://clerk.com/pricing"},{"id":"business","name":"Business","monthly":300,"summary":"Everything in Pro plus 10 seats, SOC2 report; $250/mo billed annually","source":"https://clerk.com/pricing"},{"id":"enterprise","name":"Enterprise","monthly":null,"summary":"Custom, billed annually only","source":"https://clerk.com/pricing"}],"meters":[{"id":"mru-paid","kind":"mau","label":"Monthly retained users beyond 50,000 (Pro / Business)","unit":"MAU","per":1,"tiers":[{"upTo":50000,"price":0},{"upTo":100000,"price":0.02},{"upTo":1000000,"price":0.018},{"upTo":10000000,"price":0.015},{"upTo":null,"price":0.012}],"included":0,"plan":"pro","note":"Unit is MRU (monthly retained user), not MAU. Volume ranges read as graduated.","source":"https://clerk.com/pricing"}],"notes":[{"title":"Retained users","detail":"Clerk bills monthly retained users: a user counts when they return 24+ hours after signing up."},{"title":"Per app","detail":"The 50,000 included MRUs are per application."},{"title":"Annual discount","detail":"Pro is $25/mo monthly or $20/mo billed annually; Business is $300 or $250."}],"unverified":["Whether MRU volume ranges are graduated or all-units is not stated; treated as graduated."]}],"vendorPages":["aws","azure","cloudflare","digitalocean","firebase","fly-io","google-cloud","mongodb-atlas","neon","netlify","planetscale","render","supabase","vercel","algolia","google-maps","mapbox","paddle","plaid","postmark","resend","sendgrid","stripe","twilio"],"leftOut":[],"siblings":[{"label":"CDN pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/cdn","detail":"Priced on 1 TB of CDN traffic and 10M requests a month."},{"label":"Cloud hosting pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/cloud-hosting","detail":"Priced on one 2 vCPU / 4 GB server running all month, with 200 GB of egress."},{"label":"Database pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/databases","detail":"Priced on the smallest paid always-on database with 20 GB of storage."},{"label":"Edge functions pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/edge-functions","detail":"Priced on 20M edge function requests a month."},{"label":"Object storage pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/object-storage","detail":"Priced on 500 GB stored, 1 TB downloaded and 1M writes a month."},{"label":"Serverless functions pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/serverless","detail":"Priced on 10M invocations and 1M GB-seconds a month."},{"label":"Product analytics pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/analytics","detail":"Priced on 5M events a month."},{"label":"Banking data API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/banking-data","detail":"Priced on 500 verified bank accounts a month."},{"label":"Email API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/email-api","detail":"Priced on 100,000 emails a month."},{"label":"Error monitoring pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/error-monitoring","detail":"Priced on 100,000 errors a month."},{"label":"KYC and identity verification pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/kyc-identity","detail":"Priced on 500 identity verifications a month."},{"label":"Maps API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/maps","detail":"Priced on 100,000 web map loads and 50,000 geocodes a month."},{"label":"Observability pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/observability","detail":"Priced on 10 hosts and 200 GB of logs a month."},{"label":"Payments pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/payments","detail":"Priced on 1,000 card payments of $50 a month."},{"label":"Search API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/search-api","detail":"Priced on 100,000 searches a month."},{"label":"SMS API pricing compared","href":"/pricing/categories/sms","detail":"Priced on 10,000 SMS to US numbers a month."}],"faqs":[{"question":"Which auth vendor is cheapest?","answer":"For 20,000 monthly active users, Firebase comes out lowest at no charge, inside its free allowance, and AWS highest at about $55.00, checked 2026-10-25. A different workload can change the order, so enter your own numbers in the estimator."},{"question":"How is the estimate worked out?","answer":"Each vendor is priced on its cheapest plan that lists a rate for every line of the workload: the plan fee plus each usage line, after any free or included amount. A plan's monthly minimum counts as a floor. Volume tiers are applied in order. Taxes, discounts and committed-use deals are left out."},{"question":"How current are these prices?","answer":"Every rate was read off the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-10-25 and links to it. Prices change often: check the vendor's page before you commit, and tell us if a number here is out of date."}]}