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Google BigQuery pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Google BigQuery (cloud.google.com) is a data warehouse. Pay per TiB of data scanned by queries on demand, or buy slot-hour compute under editions, plus per-GiB storage.. Free plan: 1 TiB of query scanning and 10 GiB of active storage free each month per billing account (a usage tier, not a trial)..

What Google BigQuery costs

  • Startup, 100 GB: $8.32/mo (Sizes read as GiB/TiB. 2 TiB scanned less 1 TiB free = 1 TiB x $6.25 = $6.25; 100 GiB less 10 GiB free = 90 GiB x $0.023 = $2.07; total $8.32. Standard edition at 60 h x 100 slots x $0.04 = $240, so on-demand is cheaper.)
  • Hobby, 10 GB: free (200 GB scanned fits inside the 1 TiB monthly free query tier and 10 GB stored fits inside the 10 GiB free storage, so $0.)
  • Growth, 1 TB: $142.07/mo (20 TiB less 1 TiB free = 19 x $6.25 = $118.75; 1 TiB (1,024 GiB) less 10 GiB free = 1,014 GiB x $0.023 = $23.32; total $142.07. Standard edition at 250 h x 100 slots x $0.04 = $1,000, so on-demand is cheaper.)

Plan compared: On-demand: $6.25/TiB of queries after the free 1 TiB, plus $0.023/GiB-mo storage after the free 10 GiB, at 2 TiB scanned. Every price is the monthly cost, at on-demand list prices, of the same analytics workload in a US region: a startup warehouse with 100 GB stored and 2 TB scanned (or 60 compute-hours) a month as the headline, a 10 GB hobby project and a 1 TB growing company. Scan-priced products are priced on data scanned, compute-priced ones on hours of their smallest compute size, always-on ones for the full month, plus storage; permanent free tiers count, trials and credits do not.

Google BigQuery price hikes

No price hikes on record for Google BigQuery.

Alternatives to Google BigQuery

Google BigQuery is the cheapest data warehouse we track at a 100 GB startup warehouse. The others:

Google BigQuery alternatives: 3 data warehouses compared, at every size.

Sources

Pricing page: cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Read from Google's BigQuery pricing page and release notes via raw HTML (the fetch tool returned only the title). Storage uses the us-central1 rate ($0.023/GiB-mo) because the US multi-region rate is not in the page HTML, and the edition comparison assumes 100-slot increments.