Which is cheaper, Amazon Redshift or Google BigQuery?

AWS is cheaper in 2 of 4 comparable categories, with an average price difference of 70.3%.

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

Both providers offer competitive pricing for general purpose workloads.

Updated Apr 4, 2026AWSGCP

Overall Winner

AWS

AWS Wins

GCP Wins

Ties

AWS wins 2 of 4 price comparisons, averaging 70.3% lower prices in categories where it leads.

Prices range from $0.0240/hr to $0.5430/hr across comparable tiers.

Choose AWS

Best for Redshift Concurrency Scaling workloads

Choose GCP

Best for Serverless workloads

Choose GCP

Best for Compute Instance workloads

Choose AWS

Best for Redshift Managed Storage workloads

Comparing Amazon Redshift and Google BigQuery across 4 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 - 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
Compute Instance - ra3.large	$0.5430/hr ra3.large ($396.39/mo)	$0.1500/hr DD2A-D86F-7010 ($109.50/mo)	+72.4%	GCP
Redshift Managed Storage - Redshift Managed Storage	$0.0240/hr USE1-RMS:Serverless ($17.52/mo)	$0.2040/hr 0BE7-161C-00B1 ($148.92/mo)	+88.2%	AWS

✓Redshift Concurrency Scaling - ra3.4xlarge - saves $17.52/mo (50% cheaper)
✓Redshift Managed Storage - Redshift Managed Storage - saves $131.40/mo (88.2% cheaper)