Google AI Studio is too expensive, the so called free tier credit gets depleted too quickly and you can barely build anything meaningful in such an environment. Firebase Studio offered unlimited vibecoding experience, and I wish this could be retained.
I’d like to strongly support the request to continue Firebase Studio, even if AI-powered features are removed.
For many student developers and beginners, Firebase Studio is not just about AI—it’s about having a simple, accessible environment to build and deploy apps without complex setup.
Even a lightweight version without AI would still be extremely valuable for: • Learning and experimentation
• Rapid prototyping
• Small personal and student projects
If maintaining the full product is difficult, could Google consider keeping a minimal or community-supported version instead of fully sunsetting it?
This platform lowers the barrier to entry for new developers, and losing it would impact many learners.
Thank you for considering this feedback.
what about android studio will it be restored?
I tried migrating my app three times to Google AI Studio, all failed. I’d advise anyone who still had projects in Firebase Studio to consider continuing them in Claude Code. There’s no built-in preview, but it’s easy to preview locally.
I asked Claude to code review and refactor various parts of my app, and wow, there were some huge errors made by Gemini, some absolutely critical that would’ve broken the app in certain scenarios. Claude seems to be significantly ahead of Gemini in coding, it’s been a pleasure since switching.
There are costs, but they are manageable.
I swtiched to claude code 2 months ago when they announced the sunset of firebase.
At first I was angry and worried to re-start from scratch. But very soon I jumped to their max $200/mo plan; because during the last 6 weeks I coded 300x more features than during 6 months within firebase studio. And there is no single bug.
I have more than 250k lines of codes and created a MCP tool with 500+ API endpoints. In just 6 weeks, and I am not a coder. The project is worth half a million based on Claude code’s own evaluation.
So thank you google for having let me discover the potential of vibecoding in 2025, but now I want to work only with products and services that I can trust, whatever the price.
Similar experience - although not quite as emphatic. Started on the £15 a month plan, was pleasantly surprised at the token limits - I had always avoided CC because fellow devs would tell me it’s token hungry and you’d hit limits quickly. Maybe the newly-formed partnership with XAI helped, limits were doubled. But then upgraded to Max plan as part of a large refactor.
Achieved more in a day using CC than I could achieve with Gemini in a week, mainly due to quality of code. Gemini would often require multiple passes, debugging, and getting my hands dirty in the code to fix some bugs, whereas Claude just seems to write (mostly) bug-free elegant code first time.
I would take Claude’s assessment of your project being worth half a million with a pinch of salt though. Companies, not codebases, is where value lives.