Why is Firebase so costly?

The first 10K verifications for both instances (USA, Canada, and India and All other countries) are provided at no cost each month . You are only charged on usage past this no-cost allotment. All other Firebase Auth features are no-cost on all plans. Prices are per successful verification.

Although Firestore is very affordable with little usage, costs start to increase as you begin to scale. In most cases, the cost of using Firestore at scale is more expensive than other providers .

Firebase Realtime Database allows for 100 simultaneous connections, 1 GB stored, and 10 GB per month downloaded on the free tier. However, the Google Firebase cost on the paid tier translates to 200,000 per database , $ 5 per GB stored, and $ 1 per GB downloaded, while multiple databases per project are permitted.4 Mar 2021