Pricing is based on two components: storage and queries. Developers and businesses can sign up for BigQuery online and query up to 100 GB per month for free. Under the basic plan, storage costs 12 cents per gigabyte with a limit of 2 TB, and queries cost 35 cents per gigabyte, with a limit of 1,000 queries per day and 200 TB of data processed per day. Google says customers that require more storage and more processing should speak to a Google sales representative about its premium plan.

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