Google Firebase · FinOps Profile

Google Firebase Finops

FOCUS-aligned FinOps for Firebase: Spark is free with hard caps; Blaze is Pay-As-You-Go using underlying GCP service prices and flows through the standard Cloud Billing pipeline. The dominant meters are Firestore reads/writes/storage, Realtime Database storage and downloads, Cloud Functions invocations and GB-seconds, Cloud Storage, and Hosting transfer.

Google Firebase Finops is the FinOps profile for Google Firebase on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 11 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category free + pay-as-you-go.

The profile maps 7 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Mobile Backend, Serverless, Realtime Database, Google Cloud, and FinOps.

Category: Mobile / Web Backend Pricing: Free + Pay-As-You-Go Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
Mobile BackendServerlessRealtime DatabaseGoogle CloudFinOpsFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseTaxAdjustmentCredit

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Google LLC
ProviderName
Google Cloud
PublisherName
Google LLC
ServiceCategory
Mobile / Web Backend
ServiceName
Firebase

Meters

firestore_reads
Unit: read
Firestore document reads
firestore_writes
Unit: write
Firestore document writes (and deletes)
firestore_storage
Unit: GiB-month
Firestore stored data
rtdb_storage
Unit: GB-month
Realtime Database stored data
rtdb_downloads
Unit: GB
Realtime Database egress downloads
cloud_storage_gb
Unit: GB-month
Firebase-managed Cloud Storage stored data
cloud_storage_egress
Unit: GB
Cloud Storage downloads / egress
functions_invocations
Unit: invocation
Cloud Functions invocations
functions_gb_seconds
Unit: GB-second
Cloud Functions GB-seconds
hosting_bandwidth
Unit: GB
Firebase Hosting data transfer
auth_mau
Unit: MAU
Authentication monthly active users (Identity Platform billing above 50K)

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