Many people want to save money on the services or products they purchase. I'm one of them. I would venture to assume that services like Firebase, like himself, position themselves from this side.

I recently came across the same question from a customer asking me to try to reevaluate the project using Supabase.This is such an alternative to Firebase, only based on the "normal" Postgres database. (Don't get mad at me, Google product followers).

And as a result, my score was less than 1% different. It can be attributed to an error. What's wrong? It seems like it should decrease by at least some significant amount.

It seems like I shouldn't think about deployment, I get user management and REST for CRUD operations out of the box.

But here, as always, everything is hidden in the details. I'll give you some examples.

For example, if you have some kind of non-standard login method, not from the list of ready-made providers. We'll have to invent and spin.

Or if you need to make push notifications in the Flutter mobile app. One of the simplest examples is to do this via Firebase.

That is, the Supbase stored procedure will trigger Firebase to send messages.

And you can go on like this for a long time...

Do we need such mechanisms as Supabase? Definitely yes. But don't overestimate them, especially if your app has something unique from a technical point of view.