# Amazon SNS vs Firebase Cloud Messaging (slim)

> Amazon SNS scores 72.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Firebase Cloud Messaging's 69.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Firebase Cloud Messaging leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do notify push. Category scores, facts…

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Amazon SNS scores 72.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Firebase Cloud Messaging's 69.8 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Firebase Cloud Messaging leads on agent ergonomics, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do notify push.

- Amazon SNS: BB 72.8, rank #96 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amazon-sns.min.md
- Firebase Cloud Messaging: B 69.8, rank #162 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/firebase-cloud-messaging.min.md
- Amazon SNS, good for Teams already on AWS that want cheap push, SMS and plain-text email alerts or fan-out to queues and functions under IAM and CloudTrail. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 66; Security & auth, 89 against 68. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Firebase Cloud Messaging, good for The push transport under an app that already holds device registrations, at no charge. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 70 against 65; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35; Maintenance & community, 83 against 75.

| Category | Amazon SNS | Firebase Cloud Messaging |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 83 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 89 | 68 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amazon SNS | Firebase Cloud Messaging |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Google |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://sns.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://fcm.googleapis.com` |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Free |
| Price for notify push | $0. per message | free |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement. The AWS SDKs and the AWS Labs MCP server are Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the Google APIs Terms of Service. The Firebase Admin SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2021-11-09 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 6.5M npm/wk | 11.5M npm/wk, 3.8M PyPI/wk |