Which is cheaper, Amazon Redshift or Google BigQuery?

AWS is cheaper in 3 of 5 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 78.6%.

How do Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery compare for general purpose workloads?

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Aug 15, 2026AWSGCP

Overall Winner

AWS

AWS Wins

GCP Wins

Ties

AWS wins 3 of 5 price comparisons, averaging 78.6% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.000050/hr to $0.3750/hr across comparable tiers.

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Best for Redshift Concurrency Scaling workloads

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Best for Compute Instance workloads

Comparing Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery across 5 equivalent tiers. On-demand hourly rates are shown in USD for the default region.

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Category	AWS Amazon Redshift	GCP Google BigQuery	Diff	Cheapest
Redshift Concurrency Scaling - ds2.8xlarge	$0.0019/hr ds2.8xlarge ($1.38/mo)	$0.0001/hr A4CC-2606-6E45 ($0.04/mo)	+97.4%	GCP
Compute Instance - ra3.4xlarge	$0.0240/hr ra3.4xlarge ($17.52/mo)	$0.0480/hr EB86-D84C-0E69 ($35.04/mo)	+50.0%	AWS
Serverless - Serverless	$0.3750/hr USE1-Redshift:ServerlessUsage ($273.75/mo)	$0.1100/hr 2693-D53C-9E18 ($80.30/mo)	+70.7%	GCP
Storage Snapshot - Storage Snapshot	$0.0230/hr USE1-Redshift:PaidUniqueSnapshots:RG ($16.79/mo)	$0.1500/hr DD2A-D86F-7010 ($109.50/mo)	+84.7%	AWS
Redshift Inter Region Data Transfer - Redshift Inter Region Data Transfer	$0.0200/hr USE1-Redshift:InterRegionDataSharing ($14.60/mo)	$0.2040/hr 0BE7-161C-00B1 ($148.92/mo)	+90.2%	AWS

✓Compute Instance - ra3.4xlarge - saves $17.52/mo (50% cheaper)
✓Storage Snapshot - Storage Snapshot - saves $92.71/mo (84.7% cheaper)
✓Redshift Inter Region Data Transfer - Redshift Inter Region Data Transfer - saves $134.32/mo (90.2% cheaper)