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firebase.google.com · Managed databases
SEPT 2026 audit

Google's app development platform; this record covers its Spark and Blaze pricing plans and Cloud Firestore, a NoSQL document database billed per operation, GiB stored and GiB of egress.

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Entry paid planNo plan fee and no stated minimum: Blaze is pay-as-you-go, billed to a linked Cloud Billing account (which requires a payment method) only for usage above the no-cost quotas, which Blaze keeps. Cloud Functions is the stated exception that can charge within quota. Recorded without a magnitude because there is no entry price, only a rate card.
Regions43 regional locations across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Africa, plus 3 multi-region locations (eur3 in Europe; nam5 and nam7 in the US). A database's location cannot be changed after it is created.
Free tierYes
CategoryManaged databases

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 22 criteria comparedSources last checked

Firebase pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
No plan fee and no stated minimum: Blaze is pay-as-you-go, billed to a linked Cloud Billing account (which requires a payment method) only… source ↗
Pricing model
Usage-based on the Blaze plan with no plan fee: Firestore charges per document read, write and delete, per index-entry batch read by some… source ↗
What the free plan includes
Spark (no-cost) quota for Cloud Firestore: 1 GiB stored data, 50,000 document reads, 20,000 writes and 20,000 deletes a day, and 10 GiB of… source ↗
Egress over allowance
$0.12 per GiB of internet egress to worldwide destinations (excluding China and Australia) between 10 GiB and 1,024 GiB a month, then $0.11… source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Firebase pricing below.

Firebase plans and prices

Cloud Firestore pricingFirestore Standard edition on the Blaze plan, at the rates Google Cloud's pricing page shows by default, for Iowa (us-central1); rates vary by location. The no-cost quota applies to one database per project. Storage-type rows are per GiB-hour, as the page shows by default; its monthly view is not readable by the checker, so no monthly figure is shown.
ItemNo-cost quotaPrice beyond it
Document reads50,000 a day$0.03 per 100,000 documents
Document writes20,000 a day$0.09 per 100,000 documents
Document deletes20,000 a day$0.01 per 100,000 documents
TTL deletesNone$0.01 per 100,000 documents
Stored data1 GiB$0.000205479 per GiB-hour
PITR dataNone$0.000205479 per GiB-hour
Backup dataNone$0.000041096 per GiB-hour
Restore operationNone$0.20 per GiB
Internet egress (worldwide, excl. China and Australia)10 GiB a month$0.12 per GiB up to 1,024 GiB; $0.11 to 10,240 GiB; $0.08 above

Firestore pricing | Google Cloud · read · every row quoted from this page

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Apps that want a NoSQL document database with no plan fee: Firestore's no-cost quota covers 1 GiB stored and 50,000 reads a day, and past it you pay per operation — $0.03 per 100,000 reads at the default Iowa rate — with 99.99% to 99.999% uptime by location.

Consider something else if…

You want SQL, predictable monthly bills or a HIPAA path: Firestore is a document store, costs scale with reads, writes and egress ($0.12 per GiB after 10 GiB), no Firebase page mentions HIPAA or a BAA, and a database's location cannot be changed after it is created.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

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Firebase pricing

7 criteria
Free tierYes
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Kind of free offerFree tier
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What the free plan includesSpark (no-cost) quota for Cloud Firestore: 1 GiB stored data, 50,000 document reads, 20,000 writes and 20,000 deletes a day, and 10 GiB of outbound data transfer a month. Only one database per project gets the free quota; daily quotas reset around midnight Pacific time. TTL deletes, PITR, backups, restores and clones have no free usage.
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  • Understand Cloud Firestore billing | Firestore | Firebase ↗

    “Quotas are applied daily and reset around midnight Pacific time. Important: Cloud Firestore allows exactly one free database per project. [...] Stored data 1 GiB Document reads 50,000 per day Document writes 20,000 per day Document deletes 20,000 per day Outbound data transfer 10 GiB per month The following operations and features don't include free usage. You must enable billing to use these features: TTL deletes PITR data Backup data Restore operations Clone operations”

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Credit card to startNo
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Entry paid planNo plan fee and no stated minimum: Blaze is pay-as-you-go, billed to a linked Cloud Billing account (which requires a payment method) only for usage above the no-cost quotas, which Blaze keeps. Cloud Functions is the stated exception that can charge within quota. Recorded without a magnitude because there is no entry price, only a rate card.
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  • Firebase pricing plans | Firebase Documentation ↗

    “If your project stays within the Blaze pricing plan's no-cost usage quotas for paid products, then you won't see any charges for those products (with the exception of Cloud Functions for Firebase). But if you do happen to exceed the no-cost usage quota, you only pay for the resources that you consume [...] Cloud Billing accounts require a payment method.”

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Pricing modelUsage-based on the Blaze plan with no plan fee: Firestore charges per document read, write and delete, per index-entry batch read by some queries, per GiB of storage (including metadata and index overhead) and per GiB of network bandwidth. Rates vary by database location, and charges accrue daily.
Sources (1) →
  • Understand Cloud Firestore billing | Firestore | Firebase ↗

    “When you use Cloud Firestore, you are charged for the following: The number of documents you read, write, and delete. The number of index entries read to satisfy a query. [...] The amount of storage that your database uses, including overhead for metadata and indexes. The amount of network bandwidth that you use. [...] All charges accrue daily. [...] To view pricing for reads, writes, deletes, and storage for each Cloud Firestore location, see Google Cloud pricing.”

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Egress over allowance$0.12 per GiB of internet egress to worldwide destinations (excluding China and Australia) between 10 GiB and 1,024 GiB a month, then $0.11 and, above 10,240 GiB, $0.08; the first 10 GiB a month is free. China destinations start at $0.23 per GiB and Australia at $0.19.
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  • Firestore pricing | Google Cloud ↗

    “Network Outbound data transfer: Worldwide Destinations (excluding China & Australia, but including Hong Kong) (per GiB) Services Price (USD) APAC, Europe, Americas 0 gibibyte to 10 gibibyte $0.00 (Free) 10 gibibyte to 1,024 gibibyte $0.12 1,024 gibibyte to 10,240 gibibyte $0.11 10,240 gibibyte and above $0.08 [...] Network Outbound data transfer: China Destinations (excluding Hong Kong) (per GiB) 0 gibibyte to 10 gibibyte $0.00 (Free) 10 gibibyte to 1,024 gibibyte $0.23 [...] Network Outbound data transfer: Australia Destinations (per GiB) 0 gibibyte to 10 gibibyte $0.00 (Free) 10 gibibyte to 1,024 gibibyte $0.19”

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Limits

1 criteria
Storage (entry plan)No plan-bundled storage: 1 GiB of Firestore stored data is no-cost on both Spark and Blaze, and Blaze bills anything above it at Google Cloud's per-location rate.
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Infrastructure

2 criteria
Regions43 regional locations across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and Africa, plus 3 multi-region locations (eur3 in Europe; nam5 and nam7 in the US). A database's location cannot be changed after it is created.
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  • Cloud Firestore locations | Firebase ↗

    “Be aware that once you provision a database instance, you cannot change its location setting. [...] Cloud Firestore supports the following multi-region locations: Multi-region name Multi-region description Read-Write regions Witness region eur3 Europe [...] nam5 United States (Central) [...] nam7 United States (Central and East)”

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Uptime SLA99.999% monthly uptime for multi-region locations and 99.99% for regional locations.
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  • Cloud Firestore locations | Firebase ↗

    “Your Cloud Firestore location type determines the Service Level Agreement (SLA) uptime percentage: Covered service Monthly uptime percentage Cloud Firestore Multi-Region >= 99.999% Cloud Firestore Regional >= 99.99%”

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Data

3 criteria
EngineCloud Firestore, a NoSQL document database: key-value documents organised into collections and subcollections, with no tables or rows. Not SQL.
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Point-in-time recovery7 days once point-in-time recovery is enabled; it is off by default and PITR data is billed as storage. Without PITR, documents can still be read at any timestamp within the past hour.
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Backup retentionNo automatic backups: scheduled backups are a Blaze-plan feature you configure, with up to one daily and one weekly schedule per database and a retention period you set of up to 14 weeks. Backup storage and restores are billed, with no free quota.
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  • Back up and restore data | Firestore | Firebase ↗

    “Backups let you configure backup schedules to take daily or weekly backups of the specified database. [...] This feature requires the Blaze pricing plan. [...] For each database, you can configure up to one daily backup schedule and up to one weekly backup schedule. [...] Set this to a value up to 14 weeks”

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Support

1 criteria
Support on entry paid planNo-cost Firebase support covers account, billing and quota issues, technical questions and bug reports, but not writing or debugging code; faster support, with target response times from 15 minutes, is sold through Google Cloud support.
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  • Scope of no-cost Firebase support ↗

    “Support for Firebase products is now available through the Google Cloud Support console. It includes target response times from 15 minutes, technical account management for the Enterprise tier, and much more. [...] The Firebase Support team can help you with many tasks, such as resolving billing and account issues. However, some questions are out of scope, like helping you write or debug code or consulting requests.”

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Compliance

8 criteria
SOC 2Firestore has completed SOC 1, SOC 2 and SOC 3 evaluations; reports for Firebase services under the Google Cloud terms are requested through the Compliance Reports Manager.
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  • Privacy and Security in Firebase ↗

    “All Firebase services have successfully completed the ISO 27001 and SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 evaluation process [...] Compliance reports and certificates for Firebase services governed by the GCP Terms of Service may be requested via the Compliance Reports Manager.”

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ISO 27001ISO 27001 certified, like every Firebase service; Firestore also carries ISO 27017 and ISO 27018, with a tick in all six columns of Firebase's compliance table.
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  • Privacy and Security in Firebase ↗

    “All Firebase services have successfully completed the ISO 27001 and SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 evaluation process, and some have also completed the ISO 27017 and ISO 27018 certification process. [...] Firestore check check check check check check”

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GDPR / data residencyFirestore is one of the Firebase services with a data location selection that restricts processing to the chosen location; Google acts as a GDPR data processor under Firebase's Data Processing and Security Terms.
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  • Privacy and Security in Firebase ↗

    “Firebase terms include Data Processing and Security Terms detailing these responsibilities. [...] For some services, you can make a specific data location selection, which restricts processing to that location (for more information, see the service specific terms of the Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service). Cloud Firestore”

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Encryption at restAll Firestore data at rest is encrypted by default with Google-managed encryption, with no setup required.
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Customer-managed keysCMEK through Cloud KMS exists but sits behind an allowlist: the default quota is 0 CMEK databases per project until an access request is approved.
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  • Usage and limits | Firestore | Firebase ↗

    “Maximum number of customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) databases per project 0 By default the quota is 0 because this feature is behind an allowlist. You can request to increase the quota by filling in the CMEK access request form.”

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Role-based access controlFirebase IAM: basic owner/editor/viewer roles, predefined Firebase-, product-category- and product-level roles, and custom roles.
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  • Manage project access with Firebase IAM ↗

    “Firebase IAM supports the following types of roles: Basic roles: Fundamental Owner, Editor, and Viewer roles (formerly called "primitive" roles). Predefined roles: Curated Firebase-specific roles that enable more granular access control than the basic roles. [...] Custom roles: Fully customized role”

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Private networking / VPCPrivate Google Access is documented only for Firestore with MongoDB compatibility (Enterprise edition): VMs without external IPs reach Firestore over Google's internal network, MongoDB protocol only.
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Dedicated infrastructureNot offered: Firebase's FAQ says it does not offer dedicated infrastructure hosting (on-premises installations) and points enterprises to the Blaze plan.
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  • Firebase FAQ ↗

    “The pay-as-you-go Blaze pricing plan is suitable for enterprises of all sizes, and our SLA meets or exceeds the industry standard for cloud infrastructure. However, we don't offer enterprise contracts, pricing, or support, nor do we offer dedicated infrastructure hosting (that is, on-premises installations) for services like our Realtime Database.”

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Firebase pricing questions

How much does Firebase cost?

No plan fee and no stated minimum: Blaze is pay-as-you-go, billed to a linked Cloud Billing account (which requires a payment method) only for usage above the no-cost quotas, which Blaze keeps. Cloud Functions is the stated exception that can charge within quota. Recorded without a magnitude because there is no entry price, only a rate card.

Firebase pricing plans | Firebase Documentation · read

How does Firebase charge?

Usage-based on the Blaze plan with no plan fee: Firestore charges per document read, write and delete, per index-entry batch read by some queries, per GiB of storage (including metadata and index overhead) and per GiB of network bandwidth. Rates vary by database location, and charges accrue daily.

Understand Cloud Firestore billing | Firestore | Firebase · read

Does Firebase have a free tier?

Yes. Spark (no-cost) quota for Cloud Firestore: 1 GiB stored data, 50,000 document reads, 20,000 writes and 20,000 deletes a day, and 10 GiB of outbound data transfer a month. Only one database per project gets the free quota; daily quotas reset around midnight Pacific time. TTL deletes, PITR, backups, restores and clones have no free usage.

Understand Cloud Firestore billing | Firestore | Firebase · read

Do you need a credit card to start on Firebase?

No.

Firebase Pricing · read

How much does Firebase charge for egress?

$0.12 per GiB of internet egress to worldwide destinations (excluding China and Australia) between 10 GiB and 1,024 GiB a month, then $0.11 and, above 10,240 GiB, $0.08; the first 10 GiB a month is free. China destinations start at $0.23 per GiB and Australia at $0.19.

Firestore pricing | Google Cloud · read

What uptime does Firebase guarantee?

99.999% monthly uptime for multi-region locations and 99.99% for regional locations.

Cloud Firestore locations | Firebase · read

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