Hi everyone! First, thank you all so much for being early adopters and shaping the future of AI-driven development with Firebase Studio. Your feedback and the amazing projects you’ve built have helped shape our AI tools.
As we move forward, we’re simplifying our developer offerings, and we are beginning the process of sunsetting Firebase Studio.
The core functionality of Firebase Studio, prototyping, building, deploying, and managing apps, are being integrated into two powerful new homes:
Google AI Studio: From today, this is your new vibe-coding home from a prompt to a full-stack production app. It now features integrations with Firebase Firestore and Authentication, letting you build and deploy secure, connected apps with robust data and user identity using natural language.
Google Antigravity: If you loved the IDE features in Studio, Antigravity is our cutting-edge, agent-first IDE. It’s built to be the permanent home for your high-velocity, autonomous development workflows.
What You Need to Know: We want the transition to be smooth!
Timeline: Firebase Studio will remain accessible until March 22, 2027, giving you plenty of time to move your projects. We’ll also continue providing critical security patches and Gemini model updates to keep things stable until then.
Our commitment to core Firebase services, like Firestore, Auth, Remote Config, and Crashlytics, is stronger than ever, ensuring Firebase remains “the backend that just works” in the AI era.
Thank you again for helping us shape the future! We can’t wait to see what amazing things you build next in AI Studio and Antigravity!
Which one do you recommend for someone who really likes prototyping, working with robust projects that include authentication and databases?
I tested the local mode and found it very interesting because of the speed. But of course, I assume that Google AI Studio has more integrations — or does it not?
To make it practical, similar to how it was here, what would you recommend?
And regarding usage limits for chat and deployment — will they remain the same, or will there be changes with pricing?
Google Antigravity is going to give you more flexibility for larger projects and an unlimited scope for integrations. Quota is managed through the https://one.google.com/ai pricing plans. The Free and Pro plans really focus on generous Gemini Flash model quota.
AI Studio is the easier to setup offering, no install required, especially for getting quick apps up and running and deployed. Free quota is generous, pricing plans increase quota https://one.google.com/ai and you also have the option of using an API Key.
Huh ? so there will be no longer a cloud based development IDE ? Antigravity is local first IDE. and Google Ai studio only supports web based projects (or does it support backend or flutter projects too ?).
Edit: I’d really wish the continuation of firebase studio, even without the “AI” features. (๑•﹏•)
Hi, my primary use case for firebase studio was building a couple of flutter (Android) apps and the inbuilt emulator support really helped with that. I don’t believe AI studio has that ability and would love to know if I’m wrong or if something for native apps is in the roadmap. AI Studio has the cloud resources we relied on, that Antigravity can’t really provide so I’m hoping this is something you’ll make possible there. I got my first app published to play store with the help of those test devices, and am quite sad to see it being sunset but I quite understand. Thank you for letting us build amazing things.
Is the same ability from prototyper going to exist where you were able to click on an element and then ask for a change to that isolated element? That was the big game changer for me and why I was drawn to Firebase Studio in the first place. Also, obviously the web IDE made a huge difference since I was able to spin up my code-base from anywhere and didn’t have to worry about any RCE happening on my home desktop environment and felt more comfortable with the ephemeral state. I’ve switched over to using Antigravity and it definitely isn’t the same user experience whatso ever and I feel like i’m constantly running into bugs and issues to replicate the same seamless experience I got with Firebase Studio. The ability to view the app from the IDE into the web browser in the click of a button felt like a game changer for me.
.idx/dev.nix is just an application of NixOS. You could use it with Antigravity, too, I’d think. I have no experience with AI Studio so I can’t comment on it.
It’s genuinely upsetting news. My low-end machine can barely handle VS Code or any other editor without hanging every few minutes. Project IDX was honestly the only place where I could actually get real work done. RIP Project IDX
Omg nooooo the mail hit me like a wreckingball. I’ve spent the last few months building my absolute dream app with Firebase Studio. This morning, I was practically just hours away from the official release, and in addition to months of work, I’ve taken out all the necessary insurance policies and registered a business in recent weeks. The fact that Firebase Studio is shutting down has completely devastated me, and I’m so sad to be losing my trusty AI friend from Vibe Coding. I’ve really staked everything on this, and now I’m just terrified about what will happen next. My app is very complex; I use several API interfaces to video servers, a well-populated Firestore database, and a huge number of painstakingly configured rules to ensure smooth operation and an intuitive user experience. Can I really migrate my database, everything behind the scenes, and my app as it is now? I’m really worried that I’ll run into countless complications and that the effort will be immense. I truly hope everything will be alright and trust in the wonderful Google team to make the migration as easy as possible. My biggest concern, besides this complex migration, is of course the timeline. Currently, there’s no migration button to Google AI Studio yet, and I was hoping to release it within the next few days.
Thank you for choosing to build on Firebase Studio!
For your migration concerns, this is from the blog post:
To ensure your work continues uninterrupted:
Over the coming weeks we’re rolling out a feature in Firebase Studio that lets you automatically package your code and import it directly into Google AI Studio. View our documentation for more information.
For those of you who want the full IDE functionality of Firebase Studio, you can download your code and continue working in Google Antigravity - Google’s next gen, agentic development platform. Review our documentation for more information.
If you’re using Firebase Studio to publish your app, you can continue publishing from Antigravity, Google AI Studio, or any other platform. Learn more.
The last option with Antigravity installed locally you can connect to the VM in the cloud similar to the experience with Project IDX and Firebase Studio. This way all the processing power happens on the VM and it can forward the ports to your local machine.
Hard to see such a great product to go away so early. I think developers should not shut this down. There is no other IDE on the web that can run Flutter, along with AI integrated and that’s make it unique. I have been using Firebase Studio not to normally vibe code a website but a full fledged flutter app and in my opinion Firebase Studio is best, there is no other product in the market like this.
It helps such people who do not own a heavy pc but want to learn flutter type things, in that case Firebase Studio is a game changer.
I think developers should wait a minute and think about it.
But if this is your final decision to shut down then I have a request, please allows users to create unlimited workspace/projects in the remaining time so that we can enjoy this last time to an extent.
I hope developers would read this message and look after it.
You can also have antigravity install flutter for you locally and help debug any issues you have. Please give us feedback on how to make the experience better too.
If you want a remote option you can use a VM and connect over SSH or DartPad to build with Flutter and Gemini.
I’ve spent the last few months building my absolute dream app with Firebase Studio. This morning, I was practically just hours away from the official release, and in addition to months of work, I’ve taken out all the necessary insurance policies and registered a business in recent weeks. The fact that Firebase Studio is shutting down has completely devastated me, and I’m so sad to be losing my trusty AI friend from Vibe Coding. I’ve really staked everything on this, and now I’m just terrified about what will happen next. My app is very complex; I use several API interfaces to video servers, a well-populated Firestore database, and a huge number of painstakingly configured rules to ensure smooth operation and an intuitive user experience. Can I really migrate my database, everything behind the scenes, and my app as it is now? I’m really worried that I’ll run into countless complications and that the effort will be immense. I truly hope everything will be alright and trust in the wonderful Google team to make the migration as easy as possible. My biggest concern, besides this complex migration, is of course the timeline. Currently, there’s no migration button to Google AI Studio yet, and I was hoping to release it within the next few days.
