Firebase Storage (Cloud Storage for Firebase)

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Free allowance: 5 GB stored on Spark (no-cost) plan; 1 GB downloaded per day; 50k download ops/day
Verdict: fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
Cost: free tier
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: per-ip-shaping1 GB/day
Evidence: reported2 sources; a third party said so
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05

Free tier	5 GB stored on Spark (no-cost) plan; 1 GB downloaded per day; 50k download ops/day unit GB; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Limits	per-ip-shaping (binding) 1 GB/day source 1 GB/day egress (~30 GB/mo) is the practical ceiling — a 5 GB store is refetchable only 6x/month. Download-op cap 50k/day. Spark also caps Cloud Storage at 5 GB-months and 100 GB/month downloaded for the default bucket variant. No billing = hard stop, not overage.
Binding	per-ip-shaping one stream is shaped, and a user's throughput is the shaped rate times the number of streams
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	1 GB/day download (~30 GB/month) free, then $0.12/GB; outbound networking 5 GB/month. The 1 GB/DAY download cap is the binding constraint, not the 5 GB stored. free allowance: 30 GB per month
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	rest, rclone rest
Tooling	Firebase SDKs (web/Android/iOS), Admin SDK, gsutil/gcloud storage against the underlying GCS bucket, `firebase storage:upload`; rclone can hit the bucket with GCS (not rclone's 'firebase' — that is the Realtime DB). Public download URLs via `getDownloadURL` / Firebase download tokens.
Composes with	5 GB per PROJECT. Projects per Google account on Spark are limited to 'a small number of projects (usually around 5-10)' — so ~25-50 GB/account, not a big multiplier. Multiple Google accounts is the only axis. Deleting a project takes 30 days and still counts against quota, which badly hurts churn-and-burn cycling.
Reliability	Hard daily reset at midnight; exceeding it fails requests until reset. Project deletion is 30 days and blocked from quota reuse, so account cycling is slow.
Parsed numbers	per-ip-shaping 1 GB / day

Evidence 2

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	firebase.google.com/pricing	'GB stored \| No-cost up to 5 GB \| Then $0.026/GB', 'GB downloaded \| No-cost up to 1 GB/day', 'Download operations \| No-cost up to 50K/day'
2026-10-21	firebase.google.com/docs/projects/learn-more	'Spark pricing plan: Project-creation quota is limited to a small number of projects (usually around 5-10)'

More fields 1

{
 "dead_end": {
  "failure_class": "quota",
  "why": "5 GB stored on Spark (no-cost) plan; 1 GB downloaded per day; 50k download ops/day",
  "retry_when": null,
  "first_recorded": "2026-10-21"
 }
}

Unknown values 4

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$.per_object_cap.stated the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.notes the field may be stated in a source that was not read
$.retention.stated the field may be stated in a source that was not read