In BigQuery, on-demand queries are charged based on the number of bytes read. For current on-demand query pricing, see the Pricing page. Show
To estimate costs before running a query, you can use one of the following methods:
The estimated costs provided by these methods might vary from the actual costs due to several factors. For example, consider the following scenarios:
Estimate query costsTo estimate query costs: When you enter a query in the Google Cloud console, the query validator verifies the query syntax and provides an estimate of the number of bytes read. You can use this
estimate to calculate query cost in the Pricing Calculator. bqWhen you run a query in the A bq query \ --use_legacy_sql=false \ --dry_run \ 'SELECT column1, column2, column3 FROM `project_id.dataset.table` LIMIT 1000' When you run the command, the response contains the estimated bytes read: APITo perform a dry run by using the API, submit a query job with goBefore trying this sample, follow the Go setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Go API reference documentation. JavaBefore trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Java API reference documentation. Node.jsBefore trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Node.js API reference documentation. PHPBefore trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery PHP API reference documentation. PythonBefore trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the BigQuery quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the BigQuery Python API reference documentation. To perform a dry run using the Python client library, set the QueryJobConfig.dry_run property toTrue . Client.query() always returns a completed
QueryJob when provided a dry run query configuration. Estimate query costs with the Google Cloud Pricing CalculatorTo estimate on-demand query costs in the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator, enter the number of bytes that are processed by the query as B, KB, MB, GB, TB, or PB. If your query processes less than 1 TB, the estimate is $0 because BigQuery provides 1 TB of on-demand query processing free per month. To estimate the cost of a query using the pricing calculator:
In this case, the number of bytes read by the query is below the 1 TB of on-demand processing provided through the free tier. As a result, the estimated cost is $0. Include flat-rate pricing in the Pricing CalculatorIf you have flat-rate pricing applied to your billing account, you can click the Flat-Rate tab, choose your flat-rate plan, and add your storage costs to the estimate. For more information, see Flat-rate pricing. Estimate storage costs with the Google Cloud Pricing CalculatorTo estimate storage costs in the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator, enter the number of bytes that are stored as B, KB, MB, GB, TB, or PB. BigQuery provides 10 GB of storage free per month. To estimate storage costs using the pricing calculator:
Query size calculationThis section describes how to calculate the number of bytes processed by various types of query using the on-demand billing model. DML statementsIf you use on-demand billing, BigQuery charges for data manipulation language (DML) statements based on the number of bytes processed by the statement. Non-partitioned tablesFor non-partitioned tables, the number of bytes processed is calculated as follows:
Partitioned tablesFor partitioned tables, the number of bytes processed is calculated as follows:
DDL statementsIf you use on-demand billing, BigQuery charges for data definition language (DDL) queries based on the number of bytes processed by the query.
Multi-statement queriesIf you use on-demand billing, BigQuery charges for multi-statement queries based on the number of bytes processed during execution of the multi-statement queries. The following pricing applies for these multi-statement queries:
Temporary tables do not incur charges for storage while a multi-statement query is running. However, regular pricing occurs for any statements that create, modify, or query them. If a multi-statement query fails, the cost of any statements up until the failure still applies. The statement that failed does not incur any costs. Multi-statement query pricing exampleThe following example contains comments preceding every statement that explain what cost, if any, is incurred by the following statement.
Clustered tablesClustered tables can help you to reduce query costs by pruning data so it is not processed by the query. This process is called block pruning. Block pruningBigQuery sorts the data in a clustered table based on the values in the clustering columns and organizes them into blocks. When you run a query against a clustered table, and the query includes a filter on the clustered columns, BigQuery uses the filter expression and the block metadata to prune the blocks scanned by the query. This allows BigQuery to scan only the relevant blocks. When a block is pruned, it is not scanned. Only the scanned blocks are used to calculate the bytes of data processed by the query. The number of bytes processed by a query against a clustered table equals the sum of the bytes read in each column referenced by the query in the scanned blocks. If a clustered table is referenced multiple times in a query that uses several filters, BigQuery charges for scanning the columns in the appropriate blocks in each of the respective filters. Clustered table pricing exampleYou have a clustered table named
You run the following query against the table. The query contains a filter on the SELECT SUM(totalSale) FROM `mydataset.ClusteredSalesData` WHERE customer_id BETWEEN 20000 AND 23000 AND DATE(timestamp) = "2016-05-01" This query:
Query columnar formats on Cloud StorageIf your external data is stored in ORC or Parquet, the number of bytes charged is limited to the columns that BigQuery reads. Because the data types from an external data source are converted to BigQuery data types by the query, the number of bytes read is computed based on the size of BigQuery data types. For information about data type conversions, see the following pages:
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