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Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Google Cloud BigQuery? BigQuery helps organizations of all sizes break down data silos and get more value out of their data. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 35 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support Software | 3.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Google ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$2,000.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Free Trial: New customers get $300 in free credits to spend on BigQuery during the first 90 days. Free Usage per Month: All customers get 10 GB storage and up to 1 TB queries free per month, not charged against their credits. General Pricing: BigQuery charges for data storage, streaming inserts, and querying data, but loading and exporting data are free of charge. • Storage: $0.02 per GB, per month and $0.01 per GB, per month for long-term storage • Streaming inserts: $0.01 per 200 MB - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 208 more ## Features - Ad hoc Analysis - Ad hoc Reporting - Collaboration Tools - Data Aggregation and Publishing - Data Connectors - Data Discovery Software - Data Import/Export - Data Integration - Data Migration - Data Visualization Software - Data Warehousing - Database Support - Deep Learning Software - ETL - Extract Transfer Load - Forecasting - High Volume Processing - In-Memory Processing - ML Algorithm Library - Model Training - Modeling & Simulation - Multiple Data Sources - Predictive Analytics Software - Self-service Analytics - Third-Party Integrations - Trend Analysis - Workflow Management Software ## Integrations (8 total) - Google Ads - Google Analytics 360 - Google Campaign Manager 360 - Google Cloud Bigtable - Google Cloud Compute Engine - Google Data Studio - Looker - Vertex AI ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base Software - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Data Analysis Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31077/data-analysis/software) ## Related Categories - [Data Analysis Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31077/data-analysis/software) - [Machine Learning Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/31103/machine-learning/software) - [Predictive Analytics Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/30945/predictive-analytics/software) - [Big Data Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/30851/big-data/software) - [Business Intelligence Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/23/business-intelligence/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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Also cost is high... very high ----- ### "Worth a try for datawarehousing loads" — 5.0/5 > **Pratik** | *December 23, 2024* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Free 1TB compute User friendly web UI Amazing web SQL editor > > **Cons**: I can't find anything wrong with biguery ----- ### "Our datawarehouse" — 5.0/5 > **Alex** | *January 5, 2026* | Computer Games | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: It stores all our data. It is very easy to access and use SQL to query the data and great to integrate with PowerBI for custom dashboards. > > **Cons**: I don't have anything negative to say about BigQuery. It delivers what it promises and is easy enough to use. > > We integrate BigQuery with all our data analysis software to store all the raw data from all our products. Which we can then analyze as well as make custom dashboards with external tools like PowerBI. ----- ### "Powerful, Scalable, and Insightful Data Analytics Platform" — 4.0/5 > **Sachin** | *October 21, 2025* | Food & Beverages | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: Extremely fast query performance on massive datasets. Fully managed—no need to maintain infrastructure. Easy integration with tools like Data Studio, Looker and AI/ML pipelines. Supports standard SQL, making it easy for analysts. > > **Cons**: Cost can grow quickly with frequent queries if not monitored. Learning curve for complex analytics and optimization techniques. > > Google Cloud BigQuery provides fast, scalable, and fully-managed data warehousing, making it easy to analyze large datasets without worrying about infrastructure. Its SQL interface and seamless integration with other Google Cloud services simplify data analysis and dashboard creation. ----- ### "Review of BigQuery Query Execution and Use Cases." — 5.0/5 > **Vaibhav** | *December 24, 2024* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: It is very help full to store large unstructured data and further etl the data and used for analytics. > > **Cons**: For Beginners it is costly. Overall very fast and reliable. > > Free Tier access, query execution on the free tier, connection of Big Query from other market tools and best of the best we can directly connect with Google Sheet. It is very to use and implement into software using data stream to connect with databases as well. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.ca/software/1030695/google-cloud-bigquery?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.ca/software/1030695/google-cloud-bigquery) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | ja | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data