--- title: Cloud Firestore has Gone GA, Lower Pricing Tiers, New... description: Cloud Firestore, Google's NoSQL database for mobile and web apps, has exited beta and reached General Availability, bringing an official SLA (99.999% uptime... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-firestore-has-gone-ga-lower-pricing-tiers-new-locations-and-more--p52idpid0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Cloud Firestore has Gone GA, Lower Pricing Tiers, New Locations, and more! | daily.dev og:description: Cloud Firestore, Google's NoSQL database for mobile and web apps, has exited beta and reached General Availability, bringing an official SLA (99.999% uptime... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-firestore-has-gone-ga-lower-pricing-tiers-new-locations-and-more--p52idpid0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/P52Idpid0.png og:image:alt: Cloud Firestore has Gone GA, Lower Pricing Tiers, New Locations, and more! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Cloud Firestore has Gone GA, Lower Pricing Tiers, New Locations, and more! **[Firebase](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloud Firestore, Google's NoSQL database for mobile and web apps, has exited beta and reached General Availability, bringing an official SLA (99.999% uptime for multi-region, 99.99% for regional instances), GCP deprecation policy coverage, and HIPAA compliance. A new lower pricing tier offering up to 50% off most regional instances goes into effect March 3, 2019. Several new regional and multi-region data center locations are being added across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. A new Usage tab powered by Stackdriver, currently in beta, will let developers track reads, writes, and deletes and set custom alerts. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What SLA uptime does Cloud Firestore guarantee now that it's out of beta? Cloud Firestore in General Availability guarantees 99.999% uptime for multi-region instances and 99.99% uptime for regional instances, backed by Google Cloud Platform's official Service Level Agreements. Moving out of beta also means GCP's deprecation policy now applies and Cloud Firestore is included among services supporting HIPAA compliance. _Developers picking a database SLA for production apps can track platform commitments like this on daily.dev._ ### When does the new lower pricing for Cloud Firestore regional instances take effect? The discounted pricing, up to 50% off for most regional instances, went into effect on March 3rd, 2019, and was applied automatically to databases already hosted in those regional instances. Multi-region instances remain priced differently since they replicate data across multiple data centers for stronger reliability and consistency. _daily.dev helps teams budgeting cloud database costs stay ahead of pricing changes like this._ ### What is the difference between a regional and multi-region Cloud Firestore database? A multi-region Cloud Firestore database replicates exact copies of data across multiple data centers at least a few hundred miles apart, offering strong consistency and 99.999% uptime, while a regional database is hosted in a single region with 99.99% uptime. Multi-region setups are heavier infrastructure suited for mission-critical apps, while regional may suffice for less critical workloads. _Choosing between regional and multi-region database setups is easier when comparisons like this surface on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Starter Tier for Google AI Studio explained](https://daily.dev/posts/the-starter-tier-for-google-ai-studio-explained-sztjvm7au) · Google Cloud · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Google Cloud Pricing Models and Examples for 11 Services \[2026\]](https://daily.dev/posts/google-cloud-pricing-models-and-examples-for-11-services-2026--nsr9dmu4j) · finout · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Elastic Cloud Serverless on Google Cloud expands globally](https://daily.dev/posts/elastic-cloud-serverless-on-google-cloud-expands-globally-v1kba10kg) · elastic · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#gcp](https://daily.dev/tags/gcp), [#firebase](https://daily.dev/tags/firebase), [#nosql](https://daily.dev/tags/nosql) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-firestore-has-gone-ga-lower-pricing-tiers-new-locations-and-more--p52idpid0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Cloud Firestore has Gone GA, Lower Pricing Tiers, New Locations, and more!","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-firestore-has-gone-ga-lower-pricing-tiers-new-locations-and-more--p52idpid0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-firestore-has-gone-ga-lower-pricing-tiers-new-locations-and-more--p52idpid0"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:17:43.083Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:24:55.449Z","description":"Cloud Firestore, Google's NoSQL database for mobile and web apps, has exited beta and reached General Availability, bringing an official SLA (99.999% uptime...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ed721de96163685d26ab7e314be3ebc?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/7ed721de96163685d26ab7e314be3ebc?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Firebase","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Firebase","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--i395oqZH--/f_auto,q_auto/v1787487448/logos/firebase-blog?_a=BAMAMicg0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-firestore-has-gone-ga-lower-pricing-tiers-new-locations-and-more--p52idpid0","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"backend,gcp,firebase,nosql","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Firebase","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Cloud Firestore has Gone GA, Lower Pricing Tiers, New Locations, and more!"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/cloud-firestore-has-gone-ga-lower-pricing-tiers-new-locations-and-more--p52idpid0#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"What SLA uptime does Cloud Firestore guarantee now that it's out of beta?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Cloud Firestore in General Availability guarantees 99.999% uptime for multi-region instances and 99.99% uptime for regional instances, backed by Google Cloud Platform's official Service Level Agreements. 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