The MaximumBillingTier is a positive integer that serves as a multiplier of the basic price per TB. For example, if you set MaximumBillingTier to 2, the maximum cost for that query will be 2x basic price per TB.

Data Type

string

Default Value

""

Remarks

Limits the billing tier for this job. Queries that have resource usage beyond this tier will fail (without incurring a charge). If unspecified, this will be set to your project default. If your query is too compute intensive for BigQuery to complete at the standard per TB pricing tier, BigQuery returns a billingTierLimitExceeded error and an estimate of how much the query would cost. To run the query at a higher pricing tier, pass a new value for maximumBillingTier as part of the query request. The maximumBillingTier is a positive integer that serves as a multiplier of the basic price per TB. For example, if you set maximumBillingTier to 2, the maximum cost for that query will be 2x basic price per TB.