Hard to move
BigQuery on UpCloud: what it becomes and what it costs.
On UpCloud, BigQuery becomes ClickHouse on UpCloud Dedicated Servers. Different SQL dialect, storage and slot model; a data-warehouse project.
Effort grade
Hard
No equivalent: redesign it, buy a SaaS, or leave it where it is
Cost after the move, before engineer time
35% of today
$6.25 per TB scanned plus $0.02 per GB-month stored; ClickHouse on an AX102 dedicated server is €257 and scans are free, about 35% before the rewrite.
Engineer time
16 h a month
To run the replacement: patching, backups, on-call. Plus about 15 engineer days for the move itself.
Other ways to replace it
The report lets you pick any of these per service; the figure and the grade follow.
ClickHouse Cloud
Same destination engine, run by the vendor: no cluster to own, and still well under per-TB-scanned pricing; the SQL rewrite remains.
60% of today · Hard
Your own BigQuery line, from your export
Drop one month of your Google Cloud cost export and the report prices every service, BigQuery included, on UpCloud list prices of 18 Oct 2026, net of the engineer time to run it. In your browser; nothing is uploaded.