The BigQuery free tier gives customers 10 GiB storage, up to 1 TiB queries in on-demand compute free per month, and other resources.
Free
On-demand
Generally gives you access to up to 2,000 concurrent slots, shared among all queries in a single project.
Starting at
$6.25
per TiB scanned. First 1 TiB per month is free.
Editions: Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus
Includes Gemini in BigQuery AI-assistance features.
Starting at
$0.04
per slot hour
Logical storage
Based on the uncompressed bytes used in tables or table partitions modified in the last 90 days.
Starting at
$0.01
Per GiB. The first 10 GiB is free each month.
Physical storage
Based on the compressed bytes used in tables or table partitions modified for 90 consecutive days.
Starting at
$0.02
Per GiB. The first 10 GiB is free each month.
Batch loading
Import table from Cloud Storage.
Free
When using the shared slot pool.
Streaming inserts
You are charged for rows that are successfully inserted. Individual rows are calculated using a 1 KB minimum.
$0.01
per 200 MiB
$0.025
per 1 GiB. The first 2 TiB per month are free.
Batch export
Export table data to Cloud Storage.
Free
When using the shared slot pool.
Streaming reads
Use the storage Read API to perform streaming reads of table data.
Starting at
$1.10
per TiB read