Amazon DynamoDB vs Cloud Firestore Pricing (2026)
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Amazon DynamoDB vs Cloud Firestore

Database as a Service pricing comparison · 2026

Amazon DynamoDB uses custom pricing, while Cloud Firestore ranges from $0–$0/varies. Both products are similarly priced at comparable tiers.

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Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless NoSQL database with consumption-based prici
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Cloud Firestore
Cloud Firestore is a serverless NoSQL document database from Google Cloud with pay-as-you-
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Estimated license cost
at 25 seats
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no public list price found
What buyers actually pay
median, annual
Vendr deal-flow data. The real benchmark, not list price.
Median annual
$25/yr
Vendr · n=4 · limited data
No Vendr data
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Not in Vendr's deal flow
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Sources & confidence

Every dollar amount and contract clause below traces back to a sourced fact. We don't manufacture composite scores.

Where this data comes from
Vendr · TrustRadius · Reddit · BBB · official docs
Sources 16 sourced facts
13 hidden-cost · 2 contract · Vendr median
Last verified 3w ago
Confidence Limited confidence
Sources 15 sourced facts
14 hidden-cost · 1 contract
Last verified 1d ago
Confidence Limited confidence
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Plans at a glance

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Hidden costs

Each cost is severity-ranked, with the dollar range quoted from its source (Vendr, Reddit, TrustRadius, BBB, official docs) — never our estimate.

Beyond the sticker
Severity-ranked, sourced
5 documented
  • Batch Write Unit Misunderstanding
    $1,000-$10,000
    2 sources
  • On-Demand vs. Provisioned Pricing Gap
    50-600% of license costs
    2 sources
  • Per-Table Throughput Over-Provisioning
    15-50% of license costs
    1 source
  • Large Item Size Write Cost Multiplier
    10-50% of license costs
    1 source
  • Scan Operation Costs
    20-100% of license costs
    2 sources
5 documented
  • Inefficient query patterns cause unexpected cost spikes
    10-100% of license costs
    3 sources
  • Security rules evaluation adds invisible extra reads
    10-50% of license costs
    2 sources
  • No hard spending cap on reads/writes — runaway billing risk
    10-100% of license costs
    2 sources
  • Realtime listener reconnect charges full re-read
    5-25% of license costs
    1 source
  • High-frequency small write workloads (IoT, analytics, chat) can be very costly
    25-200% of license costs
    3 sources
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Contract terms

The fine print, surfaced. Green = buyer-friendly. Each clause backed by a quoted source.

Amazon
Cloud
Auto-renewal
✓ No
✓ No
Cancellation
No contract — usage-based billing, can stop usage at any time
✓ Cancel anytime — no contract, pay-as-you-go billing
Commitment
None for on-demand or standard provisioned mode; 1 year for reserved capacity
None
Price escalation
No published annual uplift schedule; AWS has historically reduced DynamoDB prices over time. Large-enterprise customers can negotiate custom pricing.
No published price escalation schedule; GCP pricing has been stable historically
Can downgrade
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
Based on 3 verified sources (Vendr · TrustRadius · BBB)
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What users say

Aggregated, with sample sizes. We use whichever review platform has data.

User reviews
TrustRadius · Trustpilot · G2
No public ratings yet
Best for
See website for current tier pricing — will auto-populate on next extraction
Watch out
Unexpected bills from misunderstanding per-item (not per-API-call) billing
No public ratings yet
Best for
Small apps, prototypes, and development workloads within free quotas
Watch out
No hard cap on reads/writes — bugs or abuse can result in very large unexpected bills
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License cost is computed from publicly listed plans (real math, list price × seats). Median annual cost is from Vendr's deal flow when available — see source badges. Hidden costs and contract terms each cite their own sources. We do not invent composite scores.
Database as a Service

Amazon DynamoDB

Custom pricing
/varies
1 plan
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Database as a Service

Cloud Firestore

$0–$0
/varies
2 plans · Free tier
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Amazon DynamoDB and Cloud Firestore both operate in the database as a service category. This page compares their list pricing.

Plan-by-Plan Pricing

Plan Amazon DynamoDB Cloud Firestore
Contact Sales Custom Free /month
Blaze (Pay as you go) — Custom

Cost at Scale

Total cost of ownership — licenses, implementation, and hidden costs included.

Amazon DynamoDB

5 scenarios
$0.10/month ($1.20/year)
Minimal Internal Tool (1K Items, Low Traffic)
$1.50/month ($18/year)
Small App: 1M Writes + 1M Reads/Month
$2.66/month ($32/year)
Growing App: 3.55M Writes + 3.55M Reads/Month
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Cloud Firestore

4 scenarios
Under $0.50/month
Small hobby/beta app (400–600 users)
~$5.40/month
Growing consumer app (3,000 daily active users)
~$7.20/month for reads and writes
Mid-scale app (100,000 daily active users)
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Hidden Costs

Beyond the sticker price — what catches buyers off guard.

Amazon DynamoDB 8 hidden costs

critical
Batch Write Unit Misunderstanding $1,000-$10,000
high
On-Demand vs. Provisioned Pricing Gap 50-600% of license costs
high
Per-Table Throughput Over-Provisioning 15-50% of license costs
medium
Large Item Size Write Cost Multiplier 10-50% of license costs
high
Scan Operation Costs 20-100% of license costs
See all Amazon DynamoDB hidden costs →

Cloud Firestore 7 hidden costs

high
Inefficient query patterns cause unexpected cost spikes 10-100% of license costs
high
Security rules evaluation adds invisible extra reads 10-50% of license costs
critical
No hard spending cap on reads/writes — runaway billing risk 10-100% of license costs
medium
Realtime listener reconnect charges full re-read 5-25% of license costs
high
High-frequency small write workloads (IoT, analytics, chat) can be very costly 25-200% of license costs
See all Cloud Firestore hidden costs →

Contract Terms

Term Amazon DynamoDB Cloud Firestore
Auto-renewal No No
Cancellation No contract — usage-based billing, can stop usage at any time Cancel anytime — no contract, pay-as-you-go billing
Minimum commitment None for on-demand or standard provisioned mode; 1 year for reserved capacity None
Price escalation No published annual uplift schedule; AWS has historically reduced DynamoDB prices over time. Large-enterprise customers can negotiate custom pricing. No published price escalation schedule; GCP pricing has been stable historically
Can downgrade Yes Yes

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