Google Is Changing BigQuery Pricing: Here's What You Need to Know

slots, which are the virtual CPUs BigQuery Datadog's dashboard for BigQuery provides key insights into BigQuery costs and query efficiency

The Google Cloud pricing calculator for BigQuery is used to estimate the storage cost slots used and the duration of their usage, measured in slot hours #4

bigquery slot reservation If you normalize the cluster size to provide the same performance, Druid costs 8% as much as BigQuery This leads to substantial dollar savings

bigquery slot The two main components of BigQuery pricing are the cost to process queries and the cost to store data pricing which charges for slots or virtual CPUs