Firebase Cloud Messaging API pricing: plans, free tier and what to watch for

Firebase Cloud Messaging API pricing at a glance: Spark (free) $0, Blaze (pay-as-you-go) $0 for FCM

The short answer

Firebase Cloud Messaging is billed free (transport). It has a free tier: Unlimited (free). Paid usage is quoted by the vendor rather than listed as a public price.

Plans and prices

Plan	Price	What it covers
Spark (free)	$0	No-cost plan; FCM messaging is fully free and unlimited with no per-message charge or message-count cap.
Blaze (pay-as-you-go)	$0 for FCM	Pay-as-you-go plan with a linked Cloud Billing account; FCM itself remains free, you only pay for other Firebase/GCP services you use. New upgrades may receive $300 in free Google Cloud credit.

How Firebase Cloud Messaging bills you

The pricing model is free (transport). The free, default transport layer almost every other push platform delivers through for Android and web. Best suited to: free cross-platform push transport.

The pricing page we read

Firebase Cloud Messaging pricing page, captured for reference — Capture of firebase.google.com. Captured from Germany, so some vendors show local prices or currency. Listed prices are verified Jun 27, 2026. The live page may differ.

Source: https://firebase.google.com/pricing. Prices change, so confirm there before you commit.

Compare Firebase Cloud Messaging with alternatives

Other push notification apis: OneSignal, Amazon SNS, Knock, Courier, Expo Push.

Looking at quality rather than price? See the Firebase Cloud Messaging score on APIbenchmarks. Full entry: Firebase Cloud Messaging pricing.