BigQuery Pricing Overview
- Queries (on-demand) - $6.25 per TiB - The first 1 TiB per month is free.
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Compute / Slot Pricing
BigQuery slot capacity:
- is available in 3 editions: Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus.
- applies to query costs, including BigQuery ML, DML, and DDL statements.
- does not apply to storage costs or BI Engine costs.
- does not apply to streaming inserts and using the BigQuery Storage API.
- can leverage the BigQuery autoscaler.
- is billed per second with a one minute minimum.
Region - Mumbai (asia-south1)
| Edition | Commitment model | Hourly cost | Monthly costs (50 slots) | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Pay as you go | $0.046 / slot hour | $1656 = Rs. 1,41,865.46 | No commitment. Billed per second with a 1 minute minimum |
| Enterprise | Pay as you go | $0.069 / slot hour | $2484 = Rs. 2,12,798.19 | Billed per second with a 1 minute minimum |
| 1 yr commit | $0.0552 / slot hour | $1,987 = Rs. 1,70,243 (20% cheaper than pay-as-you-go) | Billed for 1 year | |
| 3 yr commit | $0.0414 / slot hour | $1,490 = Rs. 1,27,683 (40% cheaper than pay-as-you-go) | Billed for 3 years | |
| Enterprise Plus | Pay as you go | $0.115 / slot hour | $4,140 = Rs. 3,54,674 | Billed per second with a 1 minute minimum |
| 1 yr commit | $0.092 / slot hour | $3,312 = Rs. 2,83,739 | Billed for 1 year | |
| 3 yr commit | $0.069 / slot hour | $2,484 = Rs. 2,12,804 | Billed for 3 years |
Standard vs Enterprise
Standard is suitable for ad-hoc and development workloads, while Enterprise adds security, governance, and machine learning features. Enterprise Plus provides the highest level of availability, recovery, and compliance capabilities, ideal for mission-critical applications.
1. BigQuery Standard Edition
Best for: Small to mid-sized teams or projects needing core features without enterprise-level compliance or guarantees.
- SLAs: No formal SLA
- Performance: Standard performance
- Security:
- Basic IAM
- No customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK)
- Data locality: Multi-region or single-region
- Data sharing: Supported via authorized views & datasets
- Backup/Restore: Time travel up to 7 days
- Autoscaling: Yes
- Key Limits:
- No support for fine-grained capacity commitments
2. BigQuery Enterprise Edition
Best for: Medium to large businesses needing SLAs, advanced security, and compliance.
- SLAs: 99.9% availability SLA
- Performance: Enhanced reliability, availability
- Security:
- CMEK supported
- VPC Service Controls integration
- Compliance: Supports industry certifications like HIPAA, FedRAMP, etc.
- Data locality: Regional control
- Time travel: Up to 7 days
- Reservations: Flex slots, capacity commitments
3. BigQuery Enterprise Plus Edition
Best for: Large enterprises with mission-critical analytics and regulatory needs.
- SLAs: 99.99% availability SLA
- Performance:
- High availability with multi-region replication
- Query mirroring (for testing and HA)
- Security:
- CMEK
- VPC SC
- Data residency guarantees
- Data sharing:
- Analytics Hub + cross-org data sharing
- Time travel: Up to 7 or 90 days (extended) with additional configuration
- Advanced features:
- Automatic replication across regions
- Access Transparency logs
- Data Sovereignty controls
- Autoscaling with priority handling
- Streaming ingestion SLAs
Slot Commitments
- are available for one or three year periods.
- are available in Enterprise and Enterprise Plus editions.
- are regional capacity. Commitments in one region or multi-region cannot be used in another region or multi-region and cannot be moved.
- can be shared across your entire organization. There is no need to buy slot commitments for every project.
- are offered with a 50-slot minimum and increments of 50 slots.
- are automatically renewed unless set to cancel at the end of the period.
Purchase and manage slot commitments | BigQuery | Google Cloud
Storage pricing
Storage pricing is the cost to store data that you load into BigQuery. You pay for active storage and long-term storage.
- Active storage includes any table or table partition that has been modified in the last 90 days.
- Long-term storage includes any table or table partition that has not been modified for 90 consecutive days. The price of storage for that table automatically drops by approximately 50%. There is no difference in performance, durability, or availability between active and long-term storage.
- Metadata storage includes storage for logical and physical metadata for datasets, tables, partitions, models and functions stored in the BigQuery metastore.
The first 10 GiB of storage per month is free.
Region - Mumbai (asia-south1)
| Operation | Pricing |
|---|---|
| Active logical storage | $0.023 per GiB per month |
| Long-term logical storage | $0.016 per GiB per month |
| Active physical storage | $0.052 per GiB per month |
| Long-term physical storage | $0.026 per GiB per month |
| Metadata storage | $0.052 per GiB per month |
S3 Standard - General purpose storage for any type of data, typically used for frequently accessed data - First 50 TB / Month - $0.023 per GB
Pricing is same as AWS S3 Standard storage