Google Cloud BigQuery Pricing Plan & Cost Guide

BigQuery is a serverless and multi-cloud data warehouse designed to help users turn big data into valuable business insights. Users can query structured data without the need to store it or load it into their own systems first.

Google Cloud BigQuery

Free

On Demand Pricing

Monthly Flat Rate

Annual Flat Rate

We used BigQuery to analyze firebase events data from our mobile apps. Considering the sheer volume of this dataset, querying has been mostly very fast and reliable, albeit at a high cost. 

Great serverless cloud data warehouse

GBQ is a good Choice 

Does the job but it's bare bones

I really love BigQuery especially insofar as it fits within a GCP environment. It is incredibly powerful and, given some governance, not very expensive at all. I find it cheaper and slightly easier to manage than Snowflake, though both products are incredible to use. 

Superb, Scalable Technology

Enough storage provided

Using BigQuery was a learning curve, it's great for analyzing data but not like my favorite relational database, Postgres, for everyday tasks.

BigQuery is Great for Lots of Data

Data warehouse for Analysis 

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My experience using Google Cloud BigQuery has been very good. It is a strong software for data warehousing and analytics, capable of handling large datasets efficiently. Navigation and execution of queries are fast and user-friendly. The pay-per-use pricing model is cost-effective and it offers robust features such as high performance, flexibility, and security. It is an ideal choice for companies that want to extract valuable insights from big data.

"Google Cloud BigQuery: The Ultimate Solution for Big Data Management and Analysis"

BigQuery is powerful and reliable tool to manage huge data consists of trillion of rows.  It is well embedded with GCP which ensure economical solution.  It provides rich infrastructure and instant real-time analysis.

Google Cloud BigQuery is an Ideal Real-time Data Analysis Solution

Made it possible to "get our feet wet" with data warehousing / dashboards / reporting, without the $$$ commitment of other tools.

BigQuery data warehousing - Excellent performance at MINIMAL cost

It takes a  good while to learn BigQuery but it is well worth it.

Has been a revelation for me

Easy to integrate with other tools and then aggregated data provide very detailed reports to analyze and also to share with clients for business decisions

Easy to integrte data from various data sources and visiualize in mulptiple dashboards

My overall experience has been wonderful. It's easy to set up and use, and Google even has training for how to use it on Coursera at a pretty cheap price. 

An ideal location to warehouse marketing data

Google Cloud BigQuery is one of the main products of Google ecosystem that allows you to keep your data on Google cloud services. You can integrate it with other Google services such as Google Data Studio, which lets you to work with your data.

It can be used as your data warehouse

Does everything you want in a data warehouse

Free Trial: New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on BigQuery during the first 90 days.<br />
Free Usage per Month: All customers get 10 GB storage and up to 1 TB queries free per month, not charged against their credits.<br />
General Pricing: BigQuery charges for data storage, streaming inserts, and querying data, but loading and exporting data are free of charge.<br />
• Storage: $0.02 per GB, per month and $0.01 per GB, per month for long-term storage<br />
• Streaming inserts: $0.01 per 200 MB

Google Cloud BigQuery Pricing (2025)

Pricing plans

Free

On Demand Pricing

Monthly Flat Rate

Annual Flat Rate

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