Introduction to controlling BigQuery costs
This page provides an overview of methods and best practices for controlling costs in BigQuery. To control costs in BigQuery, use the following options:
- Estimate the cost of a query before you run it.
- Estimate storage costs using the Google Cloud Pricing Calculator.
- Set custom cost controls using custom quotas.
- Analyze audit logs to monitor query costs and BigQuery usage.
- Improve query performance by optimizing the query.
To learn about best practices for controlling costs in BigQuery, see Control costs in BigQuery.
Pricing
For information about billing, see the following topics:
- Create, edit, or delete budgets and budget alerts
- Export Cloud Billing data to BigQuery
- Visualize your costs with Looker Studio
- BigQuery pricing