Hi everyone!

It seems that to use Firebase Functions you now must be on the paid plan. This was not the case when I recorded these videos. But the good news is that as long as you stay within limits, you will only be charged $0.026 / GB of container storage per month.

As you can see, most of Firebase Function features are still free once you upgrade with the exception of the very small charge I mentioned above: https://firebase.google.com/pricing

Read this thread here for more information: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62824043/is-function-cloud-in-firebase-free-or-not-cloud-functions-deployment-requires-t

Sorry for the inconvenience here.

-Lucas

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Why will I need a billing account to use the Node.js 10 runtime for Cloud Functions for Firebase?

Because of updates to its underlying architecture planned for August 17, 2020, Cloud Functions for Firebase will rely on some additional paid Google services: Cloud Build, Container Registry, and Cloud Storage. These architecture updates will apply for functions deployed to the Node.js 10 runtime. Usage of these services will be billed in addition to existing pricing.

In the new architecture, Cloud Build supports the deployment of functions. You'll be billed only for the computing time required to build a function's runtime container.

Cloud Storage, interoperating with Google Container Registry, will provide storage space for the containers in which functions run. You'll be billed for each container required to deploy a function. If you're currently using Cloud Functions within free usage limits, you may notice new, small charges for each container stored— for example, 1GB of storage is billed at $0.026 per month.

To understand more about how your bill might change, please review the following

Cloud Functions pricing: existing free tier is unchanged.

Cloud Build pricing: Cloud Build provides for a free tier.

Container Registry pricing.