BigQuery ML
Data platform · fee not published
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Carries 28 of the models tracked here, from its own model catalog, checked Nov 9, 2026.
About BigQuery ML
BigQuery ML remote models that call Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform) models such as Gemini and Claude from SQL via ML.GENERATE_TEXT.
- Fee on tokens
- Not published
- Pricing model
- BigQuery bytes processed (on-demand or editions) plus the underlying Vertex AI model charges billed directly by that service; no separate BigQuery per-token rate for LLM calls
- Bring your own key
- No
- Entry plan
- Usage based
- Hosting
- Hosted
Features stated: none found. Not stated: Fallbacks, Load balancing, Caching, Guardrails, Observability, Rate limits, Budgets, Prompts, OpenAI-compatible, Bring your own key, Data residency, Private networking.
The terms, in their words
- Markup
- BigQuery bytes processed (on-demand or editions) plus the underlying Vertex AI model charges billed directly by that service; no separate BigQuery per-token rate for LLM calls
- Providers
- Google models on Agent Platform, Anthropic Claude models enabled on Agent Platform, and open models deployed to Agent Platform
- The bytes processed by BigQuery are billed according to standard pricing such as on-demand or editions pricing.
- For remote endpoint model pricing, you are billed directly by the above services.
- Google models hosted on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform ML.GENERATE_TEXT ML.GENERATE_EMBEDDING Generative AI on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform batch pricing
Source: cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing
BigQuery, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI), the Gemini API, Looker, AlloyDB and Spanner.
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