Google Cloud BigQuery 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Google Cloud BigQuery

4.6

(34)

Pricing

Starting at $5.00 per month

About Google Cloud BigQuery

BigQuery is a serverless data warehouse designed that makes querying large datasets easy and fast by enabling massively parallel processing of terabytes of data in seconds. BigQuery is great for analytics workloads spanning multiple dimensions, including time-series data, nested data, and geographical data.

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Google Cloud BigQuery Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $5.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Free

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

10 GB storage per month
1 TB queries per month

On Demand Pricing

$5.00

usage based, per month

No plan information available

Monthly Flat Rate

$2,000.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

Annual Flat Rate

$1,700.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

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Google Cloud BigQuery Features

Popular features found in Data Warehouse
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Connectors
Data Extraction
Data Integration
Data Migration
Data Quality Control
ETL - Extract Transfer Load
In-Database Processing
Multiple Data Sources
Reporting/Analytics
More features of Google Cloud BigQuery
Access Controls/Permissions
Ad hoc Analysis
Ad hoc Query
Ad hoc Reporting
AI/Machine Learning
Auto Extraction
Batch Processing
Charting
Collaboration Tools
Configurable Workflow
Configuration Management
Customizable Templates
Dashboard Creation
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Database Support
Data Classification
Data Cleansing
Data Clustering
Data Discovery
Data Import/Export
Data Management
Data Mining
Data Transformation
Data Visualization
Data Warehousing
Decision Support
Deep Learning
Demand Forecasting
Forecasting
For Education
For Healthcare
For Retail
High Volume Processing
In-Memory Processing
ML Algorithm Library
Modeling & Simulation
Model Training
Multi-Language
Parallel Processing
Predictive Analytics
Process/Workflow Automation
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Reporting
Role-Based Permissions
Self-service Analytics
Sentiment Analysis
Templates
Third-Party Integrations
Time Series Analysis
Trend Analysis
Workflow Management

Google Cloud BigQuery Integrations

Google Analytics 360

Looker

Google Ads

Google Data Studio

Google Cloud Compute Engine

Vertex AI

Google Cloud BigQuery User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

71%

24%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.2

Customer support

3.9

Functionality

4.7

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Sachin B.

Verified reviewer

Food & Beverages

11-50 employees

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed October 2025

Powerful, Scalable, and Insightful Data Analytics Platform

Google Cloud BigQuery provides fast, scalable, and fully-managed data warehousing, making it easy to analyze large datasets without worrying about infrastructure. Its SQL interface and seamless integration with other Google Cloud services simplify data analysis and dashboard creation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Extremely fast query performance on massive datasets. Fully managed—no need to maintain infrastructure. Easy integration with tools like Data Studio, Looker and AI/ML pipelines. Supports standard SQL, making it easy for analysts.

Cons:

Cost can grow quickly with frequent queries if not monitored. Learning curve for complex analytics and optimization techniques.

Reasons for switching to Google Cloud BigQuery

I switched to Google Cloud BigQuery for its fully managed, serverless architecture, which allows fast and cost-efficient querying of large datasets. It also offers seamless integration with other Google Cloud services.

Vaibhav G.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

Review of BigQuery Query Execution and Use Cases.

Free Tier access, query execution on the free tier, connection of Big Query from other market tools and best of the best we can directly connect with Google Sheet. It is very to use and implement into software using data stream to connect with databases as well.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is very help full to store large unstructured data and further etl the data and used for analytics.

Cons:

For Beginners it is costly. Overall very fast and reliable.

Reasons for switching to Google Cloud BigQuery

Fast Synchronization and Data Stream From Google Cloud SQL

Kelley G.

Verified reviewer

Construction

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Fast and Powerful, But Watch the Costs

Overall it’s been very solid. It handles large data with no issues, performs well, and integrates nicely with dashboards and pipelines. There’s a bit of a learning curve and some cost management to watch, but once you get the hang of it, it’s a powerful tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The speed and scale are the biggest advantages. Queries run fast even on huge datasets, and it’s easy to connect to other Google Cloud tools. The interface is straightforward, and managing tables or running SQL feels smooth.

Cons:

The pricing can get confusing, especially when queries get heavy. It’s easy to run up costs if you’re not careful. Some features also feel hidden behind menus or require extra setup steps.

Ryan C.

Verified reviewer

Real Estate

51-200 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Money grab for the most part

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Decent tool to query unsampled GA4 data, but wouldn't need to use it as much if GA provided unsampled data to begin with.

Cons:

Seems to autosave queries these days which isn't a feature I would like to have turned on automatically since I can't review past code. Also cost is high... very high

Pratik C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

Worth a try for datawarehousing loads

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Free 1TB compute User friendly web UI Amazing web SQL editor

Cons:

I can't find anything wrong with biguery

Reasons for choosing Google Cloud BigQuery

Easy onboarding for smaller teams Free compute allowed my team to experiment a lot with BigQuery

Verified

Reviewer

Logistics and Supply Chain

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Great serverless cloud data warehouse

We used BigQuery to analyze firebase events data from our mobile apps. Considering the sheer volume of this dataset, querying has been mostly very fast and reliable, albeit at a high cost.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I like the serverless nature of BigQuery. It takes away most of the maintenance costs involved in maintaining and fine-tuning a data warehouse.

Cons:

I didn't really like the on-demand pricing of BigQuery. Monthly costs tend to blow up excessively. I think they have a different pricing option now to resolve this though.

Reasons for choosing Google Cloud BigQuery

BigQuery has a native integration with Firebase.

Jim C.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2025

BQ experience from point of view of GCP tech support lead

I was a GCP technical support team lead for 3 years, so BQ was a very important tool with high usage, customers created lots of tickets for it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I can easily do the BQ query and load in UI, when I wanted to debug, I can easily batch load using CSV or connect to streaming connector, then query like normal SQL.

Cons:

The physical storage, unlike traditional RDBMS, I can easily understand the physical design, the BQ internally stored in a platform named colossus, it's like a blackbox for engineer.

Alex T.

Verified reviewer

Computer Games

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2026

Our datawarehouse

We integrate BigQuery with all our data analysis software to store all the raw data from all our products. Which we can then analyze as well as make custom dashboards with external tools like PowerBI.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

It stores all our data. It is very easy to access and use SQL to query the data and great to integrate with PowerBI for custom dashboards.

Cons:

I don't have anything negative to say about BigQuery. It delivers what it promises and is easy enough to use.

Bryan H.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2024

GBQ is an analysts best friend

GBQ powers a lot of our analysis tooling and reps use it directly with Python to make their own custom flows.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Literally everything. GBQ takes tasks like partitioning, building feeds from/to other systems simple, fine-grain access controls, plugs into Looker like a dream, built in connectors for other Google products (Search console, GA)

Cons:

The permission-ing for GBQ can sometimes be vague depending on what the user is needing/wanting to do. Some roles require items that you think would be included in higher access level roles (I'm looking at you BigQuery Job User role).

Andres Ernesto L.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

Good tool

I use this tool daily and it meets my expectations, easy to create jobs in the form of scheduled queries, easy import of data from Google Sheets, integration with Google GAS and many other advantages that I have discovered

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

importing information from Google Sheets seems like a super advantage to me, as does the ability to execute large queries without affecting performance.

Cons:

I have no complaints about the tool so far

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