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Open source alternatives to Firebase

Firebase is Google's hosted backend for auth, databases, storage, and app functions.

Published by Google. The projects below are sorted by GitHub stars. Star counts and last commit dates are read from the public GitHub API. The line under each name is generated from the category, the licence, and whether the project can be self-hosted. Fetched . 4 of 4 have an OSI-approved SPDX licence, a commit in the last 12 months, and a repository GitHub has not archived.

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  1. 1Supabase

    supabase/supabase

    Hosting and backend. Licence: Apache-2.0. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    Apache-2.0
    GitHub stars
    111,568
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  2. 2Pocketbase

    pocketbase/pocketbase

    Hosting and backend. Licence: MIT. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    MIT
    GitHub stars
    61,416
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  3. 3Appwrite

    appwrite/appwrite

    Hosting and backend. Licence: BSD-3-Clause. Self-hosted: yes.

    GitHub stars
    57,690
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  4. 4Parse Server

    parse-community/parse-server

    Hosting and backend. Licence: Apache-2.0. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    Apache-2.0
    GitHub stars
    21,398
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

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