Google Bigquery Plans Pricing
BigQuery is priced as separate compute and storage. Compute can be billed on-demand (per TB scanned) or via capacity reservations sold as Standard / Enterprise / Enterprise Plus slot-hour editions, with optional 1- or 3-year commitments for discounts. Storage is billed per GB-month with active vs long-term tiers. A monthly free tier is included for all customers.
Google Bigquery Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Google BigQuery on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 6 plans, covering freemium, usage-based, subscription, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Free Tier, On-Demand Compute, Capacity - Standard Edition, Capacity - Enterprise Edition, Capacity - Enterprise Plus Edition, and 1 more.
Tagged areas include Data Warehouse, Analytics, Google Cloud, SQL, and Big Data.
Plans
Monthly free quota included for every billing account. Sandbox is also available without a billing account, with restricted DML and 60-day table expiration.
- Sandbox (no billing account)
- BigQuery API
- BigQuery Storage Read API
- BigQuery Connection API
Pay per TB of data scanned by queries. Best for spiky or unpredictable workloads. List price posted on the pricing page; per-region variation applies.
- BigQuery API
- BigQuery Storage Read API
- BigQuery Connection API
- BigQuery Reservation API (optional)
Slot-hour pricing for the Standard edition. Entry tier for capacity-based compute, suitable for ad-hoc and standard SQL workloads. No commitment required; supports autoscaling.
- Autoscaling slots
- Materialized views
- BigQuery Reservation API
Higher-priced edition with additional governance, security, and DML/Data Manipulation features (column-level security, customer-managed encryption keys, BigQuery ML inference). 1- and 3-year commitments offer discount.
- All Standard features
- Column-level security
- Customer-managed encryption keys
- BigQuery ML inference
- 1y / 3y commit discounts
Top-tier edition adding multi-region disaster recovery, fine-grained authorization, and cross-region replication. 1- and 3-year commitments available.
- All Enterprise features
- Cross-region disaster recovery
- Customer-managed encryption + Cloud HSM
- 1y / 3y commit discounts
Storage billed per GB-month, separately from compute. Active storage covers tables modified in the last 90 days; long-term storage applies a discounted rate to tables unmodified for 90+ days. Logical (uncompressed) and physical (compressed) billing models available.
- Logical or physical billing election (per dataset)
- BigQuery Storage Read API
- BigQuery Storage Write API
- Streaming insert API (legacy)
Sources
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Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.