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To clear things up: You Can use the Blaze plan which is pay-as-you-go and starts at 0$ and has a large free tier. External requests are disabled on projects that do not have billing enabled but you can have billing enabled and still be within the free tier of usage. The Flame plan is the "fixed cost" plan starting at 25$ and also includes external requests.

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Oh, so if my app is currently under all the Free tier quotas for DB/Hosting/Storage/transfer, I could sign up for Blaze and my cost would be $0? I didn't realize that, the pricing page doesn't seem to make that clear to me.

Edit: Actually, if I'm exploring this price calculator right, it appears that there is no free tier for DB if you are on Blaze, only a free tier for Functions. Which suggests I should leave my Free tier plan as is, set up a second project that only has Functions that make external calls in it, sign that up for Blaze, and call those functions from my free tier functions... Convoluted, but hey, it'd be free.

That should really be clarified on the pricing page because I think many people misunderstood that

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