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01 biggest win

Compute

Move heavy users to autoscaling

4 projects/users would cost less in an autoscaling reservation.

Move jobs to slot reservations

On-demand queries that would be cheaper under slot billing.

Enable fluid scaling

1 autoscaling reservation could be ~34% cheaper with fluid scaling.

/ all opportunities

Compute $13,320

Slot reservation 4

Move whole projects / users into an autoscaling reservation — or move individual jobs

$10,667

app-data-production Project $4,896/mo

app-underated-light User $1,597/mo

app-apple-tree User $2,257/mo

app-final-river User $1,917/mo

Individual jobs Advanced On-demand jobs cheaper under slot billing $7,887

Enable fluid scaling 1

Autoscaling reservations not using fluid scaling yet — up to 34% cheaper slots

$1,891

project-auto project-fast-car · max 166 slots $1,891/mo

Move to on-demand

Move whole projects / users off slot reservations to on-demand — or move individual jobs

$762

Individual jobs Advanced Slot-reservation jobs cheaper under on-demand $762

Enable BI-Engine 3

On-demand projects spending over the threshold that don't use BI Engine yet — accelerate repeated queries

project-fast-car on-demand $1,421/mo

project-song-bird on-demand $364/mo

project-apple-tree on-demand $116/mo

Storage $250

Delete unused tables Easy 2,238

Tables never queried — safe to archive or drop

$83 Tables

Billing model optimization Medium 34

Switch datasets to the cheapest storage billing model

$167 Datasets

Alerting $286

Daily limit per user Easy 1

Users who regularly exceed a reasonable daily budget

$13 Users

Anomaly detection Easy

Cost spikes that went undetected in the past 30 days

$273 Anomalies

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Grant four minimal roles — three read-only org-wide, one write on a single dataset we create. No data access, no admin, no billing. ~5 minutes.

Biq Blue scans

We cross-reference jobs, tables, reservations and storage from INFORMATION_SCHEMA — then rank every saving by impact and effort.

Apply — or let the AI

Each fix links straight to the action. Hit Optimize with AI and an agent runs the migration for you — slots, storage mode, Bi-Engine.

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Hand the fix straight to your AI.

Every recommendation ships a ready-to-run prompt — the exact reservation, tables, region and steps. One click copies it; paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own agent and it runs the migration for you. No BigQuery expertise required.

optimize-app-data-production.md Copied ✓

TASK: Move app-data-production to an autoscaling slot
reservation — it would cost ~$4,896/mo less than on-demand.

1. Create a reservation · region EU · Edition ENTERPRISE
   · baseline 0 · max 1,500 slots.
2. Assign project app-data-production to the reservation.
3. Enable fluid scaling; keep on-demand as the fallback.

Ref: cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reservations

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Every query, every byte, every dollar.

Because we only do BigQuery, we see what multi-cloud tools miss. Break down spend by service, user, project, label, or reservation, and find the one scheduled job that's quietly costing you $1,400 a month.

On-demand Reservation Bi-Engine

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Recommendations

Tells you what to do, not what's wrong.

Every recommendation comes with an exact savings number, the queries or tables affected, and a one-line action. No dashboards to interpret.

Compute

Move queries to slot reservations

9,539 queries of app-live-prod would be cheaper on flat-rate than on-demand.

Delete unused tables

24 tables totaling 1.8 TiB haven't been queried in 90 days.

Safety by design

Your data stays yours.

We only query INFORMATION_SCHEMA. All state lives in a dataset in your project. Revoke the service account and Biq Blue is gone: no export, no residue, no lock-in.

Diagram: Biq Blue reads INFORMATION_SCHEMA inside your GCP project; only metadata leaves through a service account.

Worth it — or not?

Know if your reservations actually pay off.

BI-Engine, slot reservations, autoscaling — Biq Blue compares what you actually pay against what the exact same workload would cost on-demand. Green means keep it, red means switch. No more guessing whether that commitment was a good idea.

Your BI-Engine reservations save you $344.33 vs on-demand

BI-Engine cost $91.89 · same queries on-demand would cost $436.22

Your slot reservation costs $1,206/mo more than on-demand

Reservation $4,896/mo · same jobs on-demand would cost $3,690/mo

From customer Slacks

What teams say.

# wrap-up-2025

Loic 2:14 PM

Wrap up 2025

In 2025, BigQuery (+ GCS, we include it since we keep a bunch of archived tables there) cost us $903K, vs $1,484K in 2024 😊 Monthly costs are now around ~$60K — we're back to December 2022 levels. Mostly thanks to @Biq 🚀

🚀 3🎉 2

# finops-slots

Herve 40 min ago

Hello, FYI — I let it run all Sunday on the slot setup and we went from ~~$128~~ $118 → $38 daily on the 2 jobs (hourly/trihourly) 👏

(edited)

Olivier 37 min ago

−$90/day, that's it ?

🙌 1

Herve 32 min ago

It's $118 above actually, $80/day → $2,400/month 👍

Nicolas 32 min ago

Awesome!

Herve 7 min ago

Vendor paid for itself already 👏

# reservations-rollout

Julien Dec 30, 10:43 AM

Hi @Bruno & @Nicolas, hope you had a great holiday break.

We rolled out reservations and we're tracking usage on this board: myaccount.biq.blue/analysis_reservations.html

The goal is to right-size each reservation per batch type to maximize utilization, based on overnight runs. Would it be possible to filter on today's date only, to track the reservation usage ratio and check the caps are optimal?

🙏 1

Nicolas Dec 30, 11:15 AM

Hi @Julien, thanks! Hope you had a great break too 🎄

Solid work on your end! What you saved by switching to reservations is on-demand cost − reservation cost:

(266+315+12+55+37) − (117+131+5+10+5)
= 685 − 268 = $417/week

=> You'll save around $1,200/month, or $14,000/year 💥

# reservations-zoom

Nicolas 2:14 PM

If we zoom in here, moving 1,172 on-demand queries ($62) onto the reservation ($10) is 6× cheaper — that's $1,500/month less 🥳

🎉 2

Manon 2:18 PM

It's beautiful 😍

# alerting

Romain Apr 2, 4:48 PM

@Nicolas Good news — you just helped us avoid a nice $$$ incident thanks to alerting 🙏

(edited)

🙌 1

Nicolas Apr 2, 4:51 PM

Very cool! Maybe we'll put that line in future testimonials haha

Romain Apr 2, 4:51 PM

not unhappy I set up alerting this morning 😂😅

✅ 1

# cost-precision

Xavier 4:27 PM

💰 More precision on the costs → it's really better 😉

🙌 1

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