tool
Firebase Studio
Google's browser workspace that pairs Gemini with a full cloud dev environment.
Price
Free tier
Licence
Proprietary
Runs commands
Yes
Sandbox
isolated
Pricing
Free workspaces with quotas; billing follows the underlying Firebase and Cloud resources.
Not verified against the vendor page — confirm before budgeting. Vendor pricing ↗
What it is allowed to touch
the field most directories skip| Runs shell commands | Yes |
| OS-level sandbox | isolated |
| Can read .env / secrets | No |
| Outbound network | Yes |
| Audit log | cloud audit |
Runs in a Google-hosted VM; the audit trail is Cloud Logging rather than an AI-specific log.
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