# Google BigQuery pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** Quote-only — no self-serve price published.
**Domain:** cloud.google.com
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** Looker, Google Sheets (Connected Sheets), Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Tableau, dbt, Apache Spark, Vertex AI / TensorFlow, Fivetran
**Best for:** Google Cloud and Google Workspace shops wanting zero-ops analytics; Teams needing in-warehouse ML without a separate ML platform; HIPAA-regulated organizations already on GCP (BAA covers BigQuery at no premium); Cost-conscious teams with sporadic workloads leveraging the 1 TB/month free query tier

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| On-Demand Queries | Quote-only | — | custom | $6.25/TB of data scanned. First 1 TB per month free. No minimum commitment. Active storage: $0.02/GB-month (logical) or $0.04/GB-month (physical). Long-term storage (90+ days inactive): $0.01/GB-month (logical) or $0.02/GB-month (physical). First 10 GB storage free monthly. | cloud.google.com |
| Standard Edition (Slots) | Quote-only | — | custom | $0.04/slot-hour, no commitment required. Minimum 100 slots. Storage billed separately at on-demand rates. Does not include advanced workload management or BigQuery ML. | cloud.google.com |
| Enterprise Edition (Slots) | Quote-only | −20% | custom | $0.06/slot-hour pay-as-you-go; $0.048/slot-hour with 1-year commitment (20% discount). Includes advanced workload management, materialized views, BigQuery ML. 99.99% SLA. Storage billed separately. | cloud.google.com |
| Enterprise Plus Edition (Slots) | Quote-only | −40% | custom | $0.10/slot-hour pay-as-you-go; $0.06/slot-hour with 3-year commitment (40% discount). Adds compliance controls (Assured Workloads), managed disaster recovery. Storage billed separately. | cloud.google.com |

**Key features:** Serverless, fully managed architecture — no infrastructure to provision or tune; BigQuery ML: train and run ML models with SQL directly in the warehouse; Omni / federated queries across AWS, Azure, and on-premises data without moving it; Native support for Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Apache Hudi open table formats; Built-in geospatial analysis, semantic search, and Knowledge Catalog governance.

**Plan limits:** Free: 1 TB of query processing per month (on-demand model); Free: 10 GB active storage per month; Sandbox environment available without billing account (60-day table expiry, no streaming/DML); Slot reservations: minimum 100 slots on Standard Edition.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official pricing page cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing returned truncated content on every fetch. Figures sourced from airbyte.com BigQuery pricing guide (published Sep 4 2025, last verified date not stated) and corroborated via cdcalculators.com (2026 BigQuery pricing calculator). HIPAA/BAA confirmed via official cloud.google.com/security/compliance/hipaa page.
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