bigquery flex slots
BigQuery flexible pricing, starting with 100 slots | Google Cloud Blog
Cloud data warehouse BigQuery offers flat-rate pricing, which you can now use with a minimum of 100 slots.
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Annual Flat-rate Pricing: In this Google BigQuery pricing model you buy slots for the whole year but you are billed monthly.
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More recently, Google also released flex slots, which are priced at $4/hour for 100 slots (a 44% premium over monthly reserved.) The combination of reserved and flex slots makes BigQuery price-competitive with Snowflake.