What you should know about the "Free usage" of the Blaze plan

[Vincent Bergeron]

Hi!

When Firebase announced the Free usage on the Blaze plan, I was very happy about it.

I thought "Well, I'll just switch all my customer`s DB to Blaze plan and I'll never have to worry about my limits"

Well, you have to think twice before acutally doing this, because switching will cost you something, even if you stay below the Spark free plan limits. Because there's a little detail in the Free usage description of the Blaze plan that makes all the difference.

For example, the Spark plan have a free 10 GB/Month of download bandwidth.

If you use the same 10 GB/Month in the Blaze plan, it will cost you some money. Why? Because the free usage is calculated daily. What that means? You have 333 free megs per day. the 334e meg will cost you something.

If you stays below the 333 megs per day, you're safe.

But if you have some days below the 333 limit and some days over the 333 limit, you'll have to pay.

The other difference is with the Cloud function usage. If you have 100 Projects in the Spark plan, the free usage is calculated by project. No worries. The moment you switch to the Blaze plan, the free usage is calculated by billing account! So all 100 projects are now calculated in the free usage...

That's a HUGE difference.

So I think I'll stay in the Spark plan... Firebase could benifit of giving the same same same free usage of the Spark plan.Then I would change all my projects to Blaze and be usage-limit-mind free.

VB

[Ian Barber]

Hi Vincent, 

Thanks for the feedback! We don't want anyone do have a (bad!) surprise when they change their billing settings, so highlighting the differences is really helpful.  

The daily/monthly thing can definitely result in some mismatch when you've got spiky usage patterns or are right on the limit, and the Cloud Functions one is non-obvious (we have tried to add a callout to it on the pricing page, but appreciate there is a lot of information on there). 

We'll definitely keep pushing for the best experience we can, but just to set your expectations the daily quota is unlikely to change, as its how the billing for the majority of Cloud services within Google work.

Please do keep the feedback coming though!

Ian

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[Vincent Bergeron]

Hi!

I understand that the majority of the billing is working daily, but you could always give a rebate over the usage corresponding to the usage of the Spark plan...