BigQuery's
Storage Read API

A different way to read data from BigQuery efficiently with low cost​

Existing methods to read

A new way to read

Cost comparision

• ~$5 per TB
• Not designed to export large amount of data

> Query + Stream

> Export to Cloud Storage

> Storage Read API

• Free up to 50TB per day
• Has to go through Cloud Storage

• ~$1.1 per TB read
• 300TB read free per month