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I am using Firebase to send push notifications to Android and iOS devices, however I am not sure about the pricing at all.

I am using the Spark plan: https://firebase.google.com/pricing/?authuser=0

And they tell there that Push notification services are enabled. They doesn't talk about any limit of notifications I can send. This is make me concern. Is this unlimited notification means I can send 5 billion notification a minute? What's the deal in here.

I wanted to use Google Maps, but their pricing was just like a mafia - you don't understand just anything - they oblige you to put your credit card AND they don't let you remove your credit card!!!

So I decided to put back all of what I have with those mafia services.

If someone can please explicit this kind of business logic it will be just great.

My question:

  1. How many push notification can I send, is it limit to some kind of total pushes a month, day, week or a second (moment)? - using Firebase.

  2. Should I use Google Cloud Platform for using the Firebase - only for Push services? Or I can delete the Google Cloud Platform account and disable it at all.

Raz Buchnik
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  • There are no limits or cost. A GCP project is the same thing as a Firebase project. – Doug Stevenson Nov 20 '18 at 07:02
  • I don't know why you closed the question. Did they answer there this question: In order to use Firebase push services - should I have Google Cloud Platform account? – Raz Buchnik Nov 20 '18 at 07:04
  • Since a Firebase project is a GCP project, then yes, you need a GCP account (which is also a Firebase account). They are the same. Firebase just activates APIs in a GCP project. – Doug Stevenson Nov 20 '18 at 07:06
  • And should I add my credit card to the GCP? OR use an api key from GCP in order to make the push services working? – Raz Buchnik Nov 20 '18 at 07:08
  • There's no credit card required to get FCM to work. If you have questions about billing in general, please contact Firebase support, since Stack Overflow is for programming questions. https://firebase.google.com/support/contact/ – Doug Stevenson Nov 20 '18 at 07:16

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