Introduction to controlling BigQuery costs

This page provides an overview of methods and best practices for controlling costs in BigQuery.

Overview

To control costs in BigQuery, you can:

• Estimate the cost of a query before you run it
• Estimate storage costs using the Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator
• Set custom cost controls using custom quotas
• Analyze audit logs to monitor query costs and BigQuery usage

For best practices on controlling costs in BigQuery, see BigQuery best practices: Controlling costs.

Pricing

For information on billing, see:

• Setting billing alerts and budgets
• Exporting billing data to BigQuery
• Visualize spend over time with Google Data Studio
• BigQuery pricing