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    BigQuery pricing

    Serverless Google Cloud data warehouse for SQL analytics at scale, billed by data scanned and storage used.

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    ToolTrim verdict3.4/ 5Average

    Budget around $6.25 per TB of data scanned beyond the free 1 TB/month tier, plus roughly $0.02/GB of active storage each month, per the dossier's recorded on-demand rates.

    Pricing. What does BigQuery cost ?

    On-demand (Standard Edition, pay-per-use)

    ToolTrim reference price

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    • Approximately $6.25 per TB of data queried (US multi-region), first 1 TB/month free; active storage ~$0.02/GB/month, long-term storage (no edits for 90 days) ~$0.01/GB/month.

    Enterprise Edition (capacity-based)

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    • Committed or on-demand slot pricing (compute capacity), billed per slot-hour rather than per byte scanned; used for predictable, high-volume workloads.

    Official pricingChecked on September 25, 2026

    BigQuery's billing traps

    Before you pay

    Storage and query costs are billed separately and both can exceed the free thresholds without warning if data volume or table size grows.

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