# BigQuery pricing

Last confirmed on the vendor's page: 2026-10-30. Source: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing. Confidence: high.

Cheapest paid plan: Editions, $0.04 a month.

| Plan | Per month | Unit | Billing | On the vendor's page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Free Tier | Contact sales |  |  |  |
| On-Demand | $6.25 | unknown | unknown |  |
| Editions | $0.04 | unknown | unknown |  |

## Hidden costs and limits

- Streaming inserts cost $0.05/GB, separate from query costs.
- Storage costs are per-GB: active storage at $0.02/GB-month, long-term at $0.01/GB.
- Slot auto-scaling can spike costs: Enterprise auto-scaling allocates additional slots on demand at the standard hourly rate.
- BI Engine (in-memory acceleration) costs $0.04/GB-hour for reserved capacity.
- Data transfer egress: querying BigQuery from outside GCP (e.g., Looker Studio on another cloud) incurs standard GCP egress fees ($0.08-0.12/GB). Cross-region queries within GCP also have transfer costs
- Minimum 10MB billed per table referenced: a query touching 50 small tables is billed for at least 500MB even if actual data scanned is 1MB
- Flat-rate (Edition) pricing requires commitment slots that are billed 24/7 whether used or not.

## Cite

Toolradar, verified 2026-10-30, https://toolradar.com/tools/bigquery/pricing

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