BigQuery Cost Optimization

Your BigQuery bill
is lying to you.

Most teams have no idea which queries are bleeding their budget, which scheduled jobs are running for no reason, or how much money they're leaving on the table by staying on the wrong billing model. We do. And we fix it.

BigQuery billing is genuinely complex.

It's not just the queries. It's the entire system working against your budget.

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On-demand vs. reservations

The wrong billing model for your workload profile can mean paying 3–5x more than necessary. Most teams never revisit the default.

Scheduled query bloat

Queries scheduled weekly that run hourly. Jobs that haven't been used in months. Failure loops re-running expensive work silently.

Missing partitions & clustering

A single unpartitioned table scanned repeatedly is often the biggest line item on the bill. It's invisible until you look for it.

Cross-region data movement

Joining a US dataset against an EU dataset triggers automatic egress charges most engineers never see in their query costs.

Duplicate & redundant queries

The same expensive query running from three different dashboards, pipelines, and ad-hoc notebooks — simultaneously.

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Stale storage

Terabytes of tables no one has queried in over a year. Long-term storage pricing should kick in automatically — but it requires intentional table management.

One engagement. Measurable results.

A flat-fee audit that pays for itself.

01

Install the audit tool

We deploy a lightweight Docker image into your environment. You provide a read-only service account — we never touch your data, only your metadata and job history.

02

Get the report

The tool runs against your BigQuery environment and produces a detailed cost report: top spenders, scheduling waste, partition opportunities, billing model analysis.

03

We review it together

We walk through every finding, prioritize by savings impact, and give you a ranked action list. You leave the call knowing exactly what to fix and in what order.

04

We fix it (optional)

Prefer hands-on remediation? We can implement the changes directly, or stay on as a retainer to monitor costs continuously and catch regressions.

The engagement

Flat $10k.
No surprises.

One engagement fee covers the full audit, the report, and a review session. If we don't find savings opportunities worth at least the engagement fee, we'll tell you before you pay.

  • Full BigQuery job history analysis (30/60/90 days)
  • Scheduled query & reservation audit
  • Partition and clustering opportunity report
  • Cross-region and storage waste analysis
  • Prioritized savings roadmap
  • 1-hour review call included
Limited offer

Free 1-hour consult

Before any engagement, we'll spend an hour with you to understand your environment and tell you whether we think we can help. No pitch, no obligation.

Book your free hour

We're accepting a small number of initial clients.

Let's talk about your bill.

Book a free 1-hour call or send us a note. No sales process — just a direct conversation about your BigQuery costs.