Is Firebase Studio free, can I still sign up, and what happens to my apps when it shuts down?
Quick answer
Yes, but only if you already have a workspace: Google's Firebase Studio docs, last updated October 20, 2026, say “Access to Firebase Studio is available at no cost” and “As of June 22, 2026, new workspace creation and user signup are disabled.” Studio shuts down March 22, 2027; deployed apps keep running.
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On this page
- Can I use Firebase Studio today?
- What Google has said about the shutdown
- What happens to apps you already deployed
- Free limits, the Developer Program tiers, and billing
- Can I use Firebase Studio for commercial projects?
- Where Google says to go: Google AI Studio or Antigravity
- How to export your Firebase Studio project
- Frequently asked questions
- Sources
Yes, but only if you already have a workspace: Google's Firebase Studio docs, last updated October 20, 2026, say “Access to Firebase Studio is available at no cost” and “As of June 22, 2026, new workspace creation and user signup are disabled.” Firebase Studio shuts down on March 22, 2027, and Google's migration guide says that on that day “all remaining data is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.” Apps you already published are not part of that: “Any apps already deployed to Firebase will continue to run even after the sunset date.”
Google points Studio users to 2 other tools: Google AI Studio, which builds apps in the browser, and Google Antigravity, which runs on your own computer. Both have a free plan, quoted below from each one's own pages.
Read on October 24, 2026, from 07:53 to 07:57 JST (October 23, 22:53 to 22:57 UTC): Firebase Studio's overview, pricing page, migration guide, and publishing guide, each last updated October 20, 2026; the Terms of Service for Firebase Services, last modified September 24, 2026; the Google Terms of Service, effective July 30, 2026; the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service, effective March 23, 2026; Gemini Developer API pricing, last updated October 22, 2026; Deploying from Google AI Studio, last updated September 28, 2026; and Antigravity's pricing and plans pages, which show no date. Prices are in US dollars. Google changes these pages often, so check them before you count on a date.
Can I use Firebase Studio today?
The table applies Google's pages to what people ask. Where Google doesn't cover a case, the table says so.
| What you want to do | What Google's pages say | Allowed? |
|---|---|---|
| Sign up and make your first workspace | “As of June 22, 2026, new workspace creation and user signup are disabled” (overview) | No |
| Make a new workspace in an account you already have | “new workspace creation and user signup are no longer supported”; the workspace limits “are no longer applicable for new registrations or creating new workspaces” (pricing) | No |
| Keep working in a workspace you already have | “Yes, you can access existing workspaces until March 22, 2027” (migration guide) | Yes, until March 22, 2027 |
| Use Studio and its Gemini help without paying | “Access to Firebase Studio is available at no cost” (overview) | Yes |
| Publish an app from a workspace you already have | “you can continue to work in and deploy them”; Firebase App Hosting “requires a Cloud Billing account” (publishing guide) | Yes; App Hosting needs billing |
| Keep a published app running after March 22, 2027 | “Any apps already deployed to Firebase will continue to run even after the sunset date” (overview) | Yes |
| Open Studio after March 22, 2027 | “Firebase Studio is shut down, and all remaining data is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered” (migration guide) | No |
| Run a business on an app made in Studio | Firebase's terms have you agree your use “is for purposes related to my trade, business, craft, or profession”; for AI-made content, “Google won't claim ownership” (Firebase terms, Gemini API terms) | Yes |
| A published app that calls Gemini on the free tier, open to people in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the UK | “You may use only Paid Services when making API Clients available to users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom” (Gemini API terms) | No |
| Use Studio's AI features if you are under 18 | Studio's AI features fall under the Gemini API terms: “You must be 18 years of age or older to use the APIs” (overview, Gemini API terms) | No |
| A student plan or student discount | The Studio pricing page names none (pricing) | Google doesn't say |
| Keep more than 2 Flutter or React Native + Expo workspaces you already have | “you will retain access to them” (pricing) | Yes |
| Download the code | Move now → Zip and Download, a GitHub repository, or npx firebase-tools@latest studio:export (migration guide) | Yes |
| Get the agent chat history in that download | “Your agent chat history isn't part of the current exported zip file” (migration guide) | No; download it separately |
| Move a workspace someone shared with you | “Only the person who created the Firebase Studio workspace can use the Move now button” (migration guide) | Only its owner |
What Google has said about the shutdown
Google's migration guide gives the dates, and Studio's overview, pricing, and publishing pages, each last updated October 20, 2026, repeat them in a banner.
| Date | What happens | Google's words |
|---|---|---|
| March 19, 2026 | The sunset is announced | “Sunset announcement, and migration tools start rolling out to Firebase Studio.” |
| June 22, 2026 | No new users or workspaces | “New workspace creation and user signup are disabled. You can continue to work in and migrate existing workspaces.” |
| March 22, 2027 | Studio closes and its data is deleted | “Firebase Studio is shut down, and all remaining data is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.” |
Google's reason, in the same guide: “We're simplifying our AI developer offerings by transitioning the lessons learned from the Firebase Studio preview into our flagship tools: Google AI Studio and Google Antigravity.” Until the shutdown, “We'll continue to provide critical security patches and Gemini model updates to ensure your current projects remain stable.”
Studio was never a finished product. Its overview still says “Firebase Studio is in Preview, which means that the product is not subject to any SLA or deprecation policy and could change in backwards-incompatible ways.” Firebase's main pricing page still lists Studio as “No-cost for three workspaces,” with 10 and 30 for Developer Program members, and carries no shutdown note. Studio's own pricing page says those counts no longer apply to new workspaces.
What happens to apps you already deployed
They keep running. The overview says “Any apps already deployed to Firebase will continue to run even after the sunset date,” and “all our core Firebase products (like Firestore, Authentication, App Hosting, etc.) are not impacted by the Firebase Studio sunset.” The database, the sign-ins, and the hosting of a published app are Firebase services, not Studio.
What goes on March 22, 2027 is the workspace: the code, its settings, and the chat history in it. If Studio holds your only copy of the code, the app keeps running, but the code you would change it with is gone. Download the code before that date (how to export).
Bills keep running too. An app the App Prototyping agent published sits on Firebase App Hosting, which “requires a project that's on the pay-as-you-go Blaze pricing plan” (App Hosting costs, last updated October 21, 2026). Blaze includes no-cost use, such as 10 GiB of outgoing bandwidth a month and 2 million Cloud Run requests; past that, the project is billed whether or not Studio still exists.
To change the app after you leave Studio and keep its address, Google gives 2 ways:
- From Google AI Studio: move the workspace with Move now → Prepare for AI Studio, sync it to GitHub, and connect that repository to the existing App Hosting backend, “usually named studio.” Studio had put your Gemini API key into App Hosting for you; after the move, the guide says you “must manually set the environment variable in the Firebase console.”
- From your own computer: run
firebase init apphostingin the downloaded folder, choose Link to an existing backend, pick the backend namedstudio, then runfirebase deploy. Google says this “ensures your app's URL remains the same.”
Publishing from AI Studio's own Publish button instead moves the app to Cloud Run at a new *.run.app address. A custom domain then has to be mapped again, which “can take up to 24 hours and may result in downtime for your app.”
Free limits, the Developer Program tiers, and billing
Studio's pricing page still shows the workspace counts it gave before June 22, 2026. Since then they only describe workspaces people already have.
| Firebase Studio | No Google Developer Program profile | Developer Program, Standard | Developer Program, Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workspaces | 3 per user | 10 per user | 30 per user |
| Gemini quota for the App Prototyping agent | Standard | Standard | Increased |
| Price | No cost | No cost | Subscription (no price on the Studio page) |
- Flutter and React Native + Expo. Without Premium, “you're limited to two total workspaces across both Flutter and React Native + Expo.” If you already have more, “you will retain access to them.”
- Billing. “Certain integrations (like Firebase App Hosting) may require a Cloud Billing account.” Linking one to a Studio project moves it to the Blaze plan automatically, bills “any usage of paid services beyond the no-cost quota,” and upgrades “Your Gemini Developer API usage” to the paid tier. Firebase's pricing page offers “$300 in free credit” on Blaze, “if eligible.”
- Your prompts and code. Studio's AI features are “specifically governed by Gemini API Additional Terms of Service: Unpaid Services.” On unpaid services, Google “uses the content you submit to the Services and any generated responses to provide, improve, and develop Google products,” and “human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your API input and output.” To keep prompts out of model training, the overview says “do not use the App Prototyping agent, and do not use assistance from Gemini within Firebase Studio”; to keep code out, turn off code completion and code indexing in Studio's settings. In the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK, the Gemini API terms apply the paid-service data rules even to free use.
Can I use Firebase Studio for commercial projects?
Yes. To use any Firebase service, you agree that your use “is for purposes related to my trade, business, craft, or profession” (Terms of Service for Firebase Services, last modified September 24, 2026). That page lists Firebase Studio (Preview) under 3 documents: the Google Terms of Service, the Gemini API Additional Terms of Service, and the Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy. Neither the Google Terms of Service nor the Gemini API terms limit Studio to personal use, and the Google terms have a section on “Using Google services on behalf of an organization or business.”
On what Studio's AI writes, the Gemini API terms say “Google won't claim ownership over that content,” and add that “Google may generate the same or similar content for others.” They describe AI Studio and the Gemini API as “for developers building with Google AI models for professional or business purposes, not for consumer use.” The Google Terms of Service say “Your content remains yours.”
3 limits matter for a business app:
- People in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the UK. A published app that calls Gemini on the free tier can't serve them: “You may use only Paid Services when making API Clients available to users in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom.”
- Under-18 audiences. You also “will not use the Services as part of a website, application, or other service … that is directed towards or is likely to be accessed by individuals under the age of 18.”
- No guarantee of service. As a Preview, Studio has no SLA, and it closes on March 22, 2027.
The page Can I use a website made with ChatGPT or Claude for my business? compares what each AI vendor's terms say about owning and selling what it makes.
Where Google says to go: Google AI Studio or Antigravity
The migration guide recommends Google AI Studio if you “Created your app using the App Prototyping agent” or want to build in the browser, and Antigravity if you used a template, imported a repository, or worked mostly in Code view. From AI Studio you can move on to Antigravity later with Export → Export to Antigravity.
| Tool | Status on October 24, 2026 | Free plan, in the vendor's words | Publishing an app | Who can use it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firebase Studio | Closed to new users since June 22, 2026; shuts down March 22, 2027 | “Access to Firebase Studio is available at no cost” | Existing workspaces can still publish; App Hosting “requires a Cloud Billing account” | People who already had a workspace |
| Google AI Studio | Open | Free tier: “Free input & output tokens,” “Google AI Studio access,” and “Content used to improve our products” (pricing) | Starter Tier: “eligible accounts publish up to 2 full-stack applications without setting up a Google Cloud project or billing account”; otherwise billing (deploying) | 18 and over (Gemini API terms) |
| Google Antigravity | “Generally Available” | For Individuals, “$0/month”: “Unlimited Tab completions,” “Unlimited Command requests,” and “Basic weekly rate limits” (pricing) | Runs firebase deploy to App Hosting, which needs Blaze (migration guide) | 18 and over, with a personal Google Account in a supported country (FAQ) |
| Firebase App Hosting | Not affected by the sunset | No free plan of its own: Blaze only, with no-cost limits (costs) | Where Studio's published apps already run | Any Firebase project on Blaze |
Google AI Studio. Build mode makes a web app with “A web frontend (React is the default)” and “A Node.js runtime,” and can set up Firestore and Firebase Authentication. Publish deploys it to Cloud Run. The Starter Tier covers 2 apps with no billing account, but not every account qualifies: a Google Workspace account, “an active or prior paid Google Cloud billing account,” or too little account history can rule it out. The paid tier starts when you link a billing account and prepay at least $5 in credits (billing, last updated September 28, 2026). Outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK, the free tier uses your prompts and code to improve Google's products.
Google Antigravity. Antigravity runs on your own computer, as an app, an IDE, and a CLI. Its plans page says people without a Google AI Pro or Ultra plan get “A meaningful quota, refreshed weekly” and “A weekly rate limit,” and gives no number; “Usage limits for this service are subject to modification.” Its FAQ says “Currently, Antigravity is unavailable to users under 18.” Moving a Studio project there needs Node.js 20 or later and Firebase CLI 15.10.0 or later. Antigravity's pricing page doesn't mention commercial use.
For AI app builders outside Google, see Is Lovable free? and Is Replit free for hosting a website?. A static site with no server can go on Firebase Hosting's no-cost Spark plan, covered in Is Firebase Hosting free?.
How to export your Firebase Studio project
Do this before March 22, 2027. The steps are from Google's migration guide.
- Download the code. Open the workspace and click Move now → Zip and Download. If nothing happens, allow pop-ups for the site, or open the command palette and run Firebase Studio: Zip & Download.
- Save the chat history, if you want it. It isn't in the zip. Click File → Open Folder, accept
/home/user, right-click.idx/ai, and choose Zip and Download. If asked to rebuild the environment, click Cancel. - Or push it to GitHub. In Source Control, commit your changes, click Publish Branch, and pick a private or public repository. Check that no API key or
.envfile goes with it. - For Antigravity, convert it. Run
npx firebase-tools@latest studio:export PATHon the folder or the zip. Google says the command “is optimized for Next.js, Flutter, and Angular workspaces.” - If the export stalls, delete
node_modules, large media files, and build folders, and try again.
What you download is your app's source. Google calls it “a standard web application” you can “initialize it with any hosting provider,” and notes that “moving to an external provider will result in a new URL.” An app from the App Prototyping agent is a Next.js app; Google's guide doesn't describe exporting a Studio project as a single HTML file.
Frequently asked questions
Is Firebase Studio free to use?
Yes, for people who already have a workspace. Google's Studio docs, last updated October 20, 2026, say “Access to Firebase Studio is available at no cost.” No one new can start: “As of June 22, 2026, new workspace creation and user signup are disabled.” Publishing to App Hosting needs a Cloud Billing account and the Blaze plan.
Is Firebase Studio shutting down?
Yes. Google's docs say “Firebase Studio is sunsetting on March 22, 2027.” On that date, “Firebase Studio is shut down, and all remaining data is permanently deleted and cannot be recovered.” Google announced the sunset on March 19, 2026.
Can I still sign up for Firebase Studio?
No. Since June 22, 2026, “new workspace creation and user signup are disabled.” People who already have a workspace can keep working in it until March 22, 2027, but can't create a new one. Google sends new users to Google AI Studio or Google Antigravity.
What replaces Firebase Studio?
Google names 2 tools: Google AI Studio for building in the browser, which suits apps made with the App Prototyping agent, and Google Antigravity for code-first work on your own computer. Both have a free plan. Outside the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK, AI Studio's free tier uses your content to improve Google's products. Antigravity's free plan has a weekly limit Google doesn't put a number on.
Will my Firebase Studio app stop working?
No. Google says “Any apps already deployed to Firebase will continue to run even after the sunset date,” and Firestore, Authentication, and App Hosting are not affected. What you lose on March 22, 2027 is the Studio workspace, so download the code first if you want to change the app later. App Hosting keeps billing past its no-cost limits.
Is Firebase Studio free for students?
No, not for new students: no one has been able to sign up since June 22, 2026. Studio's pricing page names no student plan. Its AI features fall under the Gemini API terms, which require users to be 18 or older, and Antigravity is “unavailable to users under 18.”
Is Firebase Studio free forever?
No. It is free until it closes on March 22, 2027, and only for people who already have a workspace. After that date, Studio and the data left in it are gone. Apps already deployed to Firebase keep running and keep their Firebase costs.
Can I use Firebase Studio for commercial projects?
Yes. Firebase's terms, last modified September 24, 2026, have you agree that your use “is for purposes related to my trade, business, craft, or profession,” and the Gemini API terms say “Google won't claim ownership” of what the AI generates. A published app that calls Gemini on the free tier may not serve people in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the UK. Studio is a Preview with no SLA.
Does Firebase Studio use my code to train Gemini?
Yes, by default, when you use its AI features. Studio's AI features are an unpaid service, and on those Google uses what you submit “to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine learning technologies”; human reviewers may read it. To avoid that, the overview says not to use the App Prototyping agent or Gemini in Studio, and to turn off code completion and code indexing. In the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the UK, the paid-service rules apply instead.
Sources
- Firebase Studio overview (last updated October 20, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:53 JST)
- Firebase Studio pricing, quotas, and limits (last updated October 20, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:53 JST)
- Firebase Studio sunset and project migration (last updated October 20, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:53 JST)
- Publish your app with Firebase Studio (last updated October 20, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:53 JST)
- Upload your app to GitHub (Firebase Studio) (last updated October 20, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:53 JST)
- Terms of Service for Firebase Services (last modified September 24, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:56 JST)
- Firebase pricing (no date on the page; read October 24, 2026, 07:56 JST)
- Understand App Hosting costs (last updated October 21, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:56 JST)
- Google Terms of Service (effective July 30, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:55 JST)
- Gemini API Additional Terms of Service (effective March 23, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:54 JST)
- Gemini Developer API pricing (last updated October 22, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:54 JST)
- Gemini API billing (last updated September 28, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:54 JST)
- Build apps in Google AI Studio (last updated October 20, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:54 JST)
- Deploying from Google AI Studio (last updated September 28, 2026; read October 24, 2026, 07:56 JST)
- Google Antigravity pricing (no date on the page; read October 24, 2026, 07:54 JST)
- Google Antigravity plans (no date on the page; read October 24, 2026, 07:55 JST)
- Google Antigravity FAQ (no date on the page; read October 24, 2026, 07:55 JST)
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