Use this guide to understand Cloud Firestore limits, and see Cloud Firestore Pricing for a full, detailed explanation of Cloud Firestore costs, including things to watch out for.
Monitor your usage
To monitor your Cloud Firestore usage, open the Cloud Firestore Usagetab in the Firebase console. Use the dashboard to gauge your usage over different time periods.
Detailed usage in the Google Cloud console
When you create a Firebase project, you're also creating a Google Cloud project. The Cloud Firestore API Quotas and App Engine Quotas pages in the Google Cloud console track Cloud Firestore usage and quota information.
Free quota
Cloud Firestore offers free quota that lets you get started at no cost. If you need more quota, you must enable billing for your Google Cloud project .
Quotas are applied daily and reset around midnight Pacific time.
The following table summarizes free quota amounts:
Free tier | Quota |
---|---|
Stored data | 1 GiB |
Document reads | 50,000 per day |
Document writes | 20,000 per day |
Document deletes | 20,000 per day |
Outbound data transfer | 10 GiB per month |
The following operations and features don't include free usage. You must enable billing to use these features:
- TTL deletes
- PITR data
- Backup data
- Restore operations
- Clone operations
For more information about how these features are billed, see Storage pricing .
Standard limits
The following tables show the limits that apply to Cloud Firestore . These are hard limits unless otherwise noted.
Databases
Limit | Details |
---|---|
Maximum number of databases per project | 100 You can contact support to request an increase to this limit. |
Maximum number of customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK) databases per project | 0 By default the quota is 0 because this feature is behind an allowlist. You can request to increase the quota by filling in the CMEK access request form . |
Collections, documents, and fields
- Must be valid UTF-8 characters
- Must be no longer than 1,500 bytes
- Cannot contain a forward slash (
/
) - Cannot solely consist of a single period (
.
) or double periods (..
) - Cannot match the regular expression
__.*__
- Must be valid UTF-8 characters
- Must be no longer than 1,500 bytes
- Cannot contain a forward slash (
/
) - Cannot solely consist of a single period (
.
) or double periods (..
) - Cannot match the regular expression
__.*__
- If you import Datastore entities into a Firestore database,
numeric entity IDs are exposed as
__id[0-9]+__
- Must be valid UTF-8 characters
- Cannot match the regular expression
__.*__
- Must separate field names with a single period
(
.
) - May be passed as a dot-delimited (
.
) string of segments where each segment is either a simple field name or a quoted field name (defined below).
- Contains only the characters
a-z
,A-Z
,0-9
, and underscore (_
) - Does not start with
0-9
`
). For example, foo.`x&y`
refers to the x&y
field nested under the foo
field. To construct a field name with the backtick character, escape the backtick character with the backslash character ( \
). For convenience, you can avoid quoted field names by passing the field path as a FieldPath object ( for example, see JavaScript FieldPath
).20
Map and array fields add one level to the overall depth of an object. For example, the following object has a total depth of three levels:
{
nested_map: { #depth 1
nested_array: [ #depth 2
{
foo: "bar" #depth 3
}
]
}
}
Writes and transactions
In addition to these limits, you should also see the best practices for designing for scale .
Limit | Details |
---|---|
Maximum API request size | 10 MiB |
Time limit for a transaction | 270 seconds, with a 60-second idle expiration time |
Maximum number of field transformations that can be performed on a
single document in a Commit
operation or in a
transaction |
500 |
Indexes
The following limits apply to single-field indexes and composite indexes :
-
200 when you have not enabled billing for your Google Cloud project.
If you need more quota, you must enable billing for your Google Cloud project.
-
1000 when you enable billing for your Google Cloud project.
You can contact support to request an increase to this limit.
-
200 when you have not enabled billing for your Google Cloud project.
If you need more quota, you must enable billing for your Google Cloud project.
- 1000 when you enable billing for your Google Cloud project.
One field level configuration can contain multiple configurations for the same field. For example, a single-field indexing exemption and a TTL policy on the same field count as one field configuration towards the limit.
Maximum number of index entries for each document
40,000
The number of index entries is the sum of the following for a document:
- The number of single-field index entries
- The number of composite index entries
To see how Cloud Firestore turns a document and a set of indexes into index entries, see this index entry count example .
7.5 KiB
To see how Cloud Firestore calculates index entry size, see index entry size .
8 MiB
The total size is the sum of the following for a document:
1500 bytes
Field values over 1500 bytes are truncated. Queries involving truncated field values may return inconsistent results.
Time-to-live (TTL)
-
200 when you have not enabled billing for your Google Cloud project.
If you need more quota, you must enable billing for your Google Cloud project.
- 1000 when you enable billing for your Google Cloud project.
One field level configuration can contain multiple configurations for the same field. For example, a single-field indexing exemption and a TTL policy on the same field count as one field configuration towards the limit.
Export/Import
The following limits apply to managed import and export operations :
Limit | Details |
---|---|
Maximum total number of both export and import requests for a project allowed per minute | 20 |
Maximum number of concurrent exports and imports | 50 |
Maximum number of collection ID filters for export and import requests | 100 |
Security rules
exists()
, get()
, and getAfter()
calls per request- 10 for single-document requests and query requests.
-
20 for multi-document reads, transactions, and batched writes. The previous limit of 10 also applies to each operation.
For example, imagine you create a batched write request with 3 write operations and that your security rules use 2 document access calls to validate each write. In this case, each write uses 2 of its 10 access calls and the batched write request uses 6 of its 20 access calls.
Exceeding either limit results in a permission denied error.
Some document access calls may be cached, and cached calls do not count towards the limits.
match
statement depthmatch
statementsmatch
statementslet
variable bindings per function- a 256 KB limit on the size of the ruleset text source
published from the Firebase
console or from the CLI using
firebase deploy
. - a 250 KB limit on the size of the compiled ruleset that results when Firebase processes the source and makes it active on the back-end.
Manage spending
To help avoid unexpected charges on your bill, set monthly budgets and alerts.
Set a monthly budget
To track your Cloud Firestore costs, create a monthly budget in the Google Cloud console. Budgets won't limit your usage, but you can set alerts to notify you when you're approaching or exceeding your planned costs for the month.
To set a budget, go to the Billing section in the Google Cloud console and create a budget for your Cloud Billing account. You can use the default alert settings or modify the alerts to send notifications at different percentages of your monthly budget.
Learn more about setting up budgets and budget alerts .