What exactly mean “No Outbound Networking” in free tier on Cloud Functions for Firebase?

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In Google Firebase pricing (https://firebase.google.com/pricing/) table states:

The Spark plan only allows outbound network requests to Google-owned services.

Does it mean that JS function in web browser (client) page can't call Firebase function and retrieve data in FREE TIER?

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Found probably good answer: "We just can't allow arbitrary REST calls without a credit card. This helps avoid Cloud Functions being used for abuse/malware." – Benny7500

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firebaser here

Good catch, that piece of documentation probably should be clarified.

Inbound requests are allowed, as long as you're within your allowed quota. So your app can call a Cloud Function.

Outbound requests for projects on the free plan are only allowed to Google-owned services. So your Cloud Function code can only call google owned web APIs, unless it's on a paid plan.

Update: the above applies up to Node.js runtimes up to v8. From Node.js 10 and upwards your Firebase project needs to be on a paid plan to be able to use Cloud Functions. For full details on this, see the Firebase FAQ on Cloud Functions pricing.

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At lowest possible costs (USD 11.53) it is better to have Blaze plan and use REST calls to Firebase functions freely: enter image description here

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no, they do not talk about JavaScript Functions, they talk about serverless computing functions

https://firebase.google.com/features/functions/

theses functions can make only make http calls to Google Services and e.g. not to Yahoo or Amazon services