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BigQuery pricing
BigQuery publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
BigQuery plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free Tier | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| On-demand | $6.25/TB | 3 | +$6.25/TB, 3 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free Tier
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 1tb queries/month, 10gb storage/month, standard support.
On-demand
$6.25/TBOver Free Tier, this tier adds:
- Pay per query
- Pay per storage
- All features
Where BigQuery stops being free
Free Tier, Free
- 1TB queries/month
- 10GB storage/month
- Standard support
On-demand, $6.25/TB
The first thing you pay for:
- Pay per query
- Pay per storage
- All features
What the product covers
The full BigQuery feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Serverless Architecture
- Petabyte Scale
- Real-time Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Geospatial Analysis
- Streaming Ingestion
- Standard SQL
Integrations
- Looker
- Data Studio
- Dataflow
- Pub/Sub
- Vertex AI
Platform
- Web support
- Gcp support
People bring BigQuery in for business intelligence, data warehousing, real-time analytics, reporting, machine learning. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to BigQuery are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for BigQuery
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $6.25/TB, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
BigQuery runs on web, cloud api, and is published by Google Cloud of Mountain View, California. The full record is on the BigQuery review.
BigQuery pricing questions
- How much does BigQuery cost?
- BigQuery publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free Tier up to $6.25/TB for On-demand. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does BigQuery have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free Tier tier costs nothing and covers 1tb queries/month, 10gb storage/month, standard support. Paying starts at $6.25/TB for On-demand.
- What is the difference between Free Tier and On-demand on BigQuery?
- On-demand costs $6.25/TB against Free, and adds pay per query, pay per storage, all features.
- What am I actually paying for with BigQuery?
- The record lists 14 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for business intelligence, data warehousing, real-time analytics.
- Does BigQuery charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these BigQuery prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare BigQuery against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to BigQuery to make a useful price comparison.