Azure Synapse Analytics vs BigQuery

Head-to-head comparison · Analytics

At a glance

BigQuery has the lower starting price — $0.0100 per GB/month vs $0.0562 per GB/month.

Azure Synapse Analytics is a Microsoft Azure analytics service that unifies enterprise SQL data warehousing with big data analytics. It is designed to accelerate time to insight across enterprise data warehouses and big …

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PRICING Pay-as-you-go

FREE TIER None

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BigQuery is an autonomous data and AI platform on Google Cloud Platform designed to automate the entire data lifecycle. It helps users move quickly from raw data to AI-driven actions, serving as a core analytics tool for…

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Pricing Tiers

AZURE SYNAPSE ANALYTICS

Dedicated SQL Pool $1.20/hour

On-Demand $113.25/hour

On-Demand $0.2900/hour

On-Demand $0.8090/hour

On-Demand $37.75/hour

On-Demand $1.66/hour

On-Demand $7.55/hour

On-Demand $0.1500/hour

BIGQUERY

Active Storage $0.0200/GB/month

Enterprise Edition $0.0600/slot-hour

Enterprise Plus $0.1000/slot-hour

Free Tier Free/month

Long-term Storage $0.0100/GB/month

On-Demand Analysis $6.25/TB

Standard Edition $0.0400/slot-hour

Storage (Active) $0.0200/GB/month