Differences between Identity Platform and Firebase Authentication

Identity Platform serves as the backend for Firebase Authentication with Identity Platform and offers identical features. As an upgrade from Firebase Authentication, Identity Platform includes the following additional capabilities:

• Multi-factor authentication (MFA)
• Blocking functions
• OpenID Connect (OIDC) and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) authentication.
• Multi-tenancy support.
• Identity-Aware Proxy integration.
• BAA coverage.
• A 99.95% uptime SLA.

You do not need to change your apps when upgrading from Firebase Authentication to Identity Platform (or Firebase Authentication with Identity Platform) and your app continues to work with existing Firebase services.

Firebase Authentication with Identity Platform is available without a billing instrument up to daily limits.

Feature comparison

The following tables list differences between Identity Platform, Firebase Authentication with Identity Platform, and Firebase Authentication.

Authentication