Storage pricing is the cost to store data loaded into BigQuery. Customers pays for a given billing model and storage type. See BigQuery storage billing models, logical vs physical (compressed) and BigQuery storage types; active, long-term and metadata In 2025-05-23, the prices for US region are:
| Operation | Cost per GiB per month (USD) |
|---|---|
| Active logical storage | $0.02 |
| Long-term logical storage | $0.01 |
| Active physical storage | $0.04 |
| Long-term physical storage | $0.02 |
| Metadata storage | $0.04 |
| Details: |
- Storage pricing is based on data stored in tables, temporary tables and temporary multi-statement tables (temporary tables created in functions for example).
- Storage pricing is prorated per MiB per second.
- Storage is calculated in GiB months.
- Each partition of a partitioned table is considered separately for long-term storage pricing.
- If a table is edited the price reverts to the regular storage pricing.
References
Pricing | BigQuery: Cloud Data Warehouse. [Online]. Available at: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing#storage [Accessed 23 April 2025]. Introduction to datasets | BigQuery. [Online]. Available at: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/datasets-intro#dataset_storage_billing_models [Accessed 23 April 2025]. TABLE_STORAGE view | BigQuery. [Online]. Available at: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/information-schema-table-storage#forecast_storage_billing [Accessed 23 April 2025].