# App backend setup (Supabase or Firebase)

> App backend setup (Supabase or Firebase) at ellul.ai: £195, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. You have an app front end and need a secure backend

- Price: £195 (one-off)
- Time: 3 to 5 days
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/backend-setup

## What is included
- Supabase or Firebase project set up in your own account
- Database tables with access rules on every table
- Sign-in, file storage and up to 3 server functions
- Documentation your app developer can build on

## What other providers charge
Other providers publish a median of £200 across 4 comparable prices (middle half £142.50 to £287.50). Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/services/backend-setup/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
152 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for app backend setup (Supabase or Firebase) between November 2025 and November 2026, 38 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/forhire, r/freelance_forhire, r/slavelabour.

## Paid separately, at cost
- Supabase or Firebase plan and usage fees, billed to your own account
- Firebase's pay-as-you-go Blaze plan, which server functions are deployed on

## What the buyer supplies
- A Supabase or Firebase account in your name, with access for us
- Your app's screens, or a list of what it stores and who may see it
- Who your users are and where their data needs to be held

## What the price does not cover
- Up to 3 server functions; more functions or app features are quoted
- Your app's front end is not built or changed
- Access rules are set at handover; ongoing monitoring is not included

## A cheaper way to do it
- Supabase's Free plan costs $0 a month for up to 2 active projects with a 500 MB database and 50,000 monthly active users; free projects are paused after a week of inactivity. Source: [Supabase: Pricing](https://supabase.com/pricing)
- Firebase's Spark plan is no-cost, with usage limits and no payment method needed. Source: [Firebase: Pricing plans](https://firebase.google.com/pricing)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/backend-setup#quote