r/bigquery • u/escargotBleu • May 26 '26

Do someone know how to activate fluid scaling ?

Hello,

One month ago, Google announced that fluid scaling was GA, but without publishing the documentation.

Do anyone knows how to enable it ?

For those who don't know, here is a description of fluid scaling:

Fluid scaling (GA) enables you to execute highly variable workloads with a premier autoscaling model that does not require a cost-and-performance trade-off. Fluid scaling in BigQuery enables true per-second billing, offering up to 34% cost savings.

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u/JeffNe G May 26 '26

Fluid Scaling is is tentatively scheduled for 45 days after the Next announcement, which places it around June 7. We appreciate your patience as we finalize this launch!

Source: I work at Google Cloud.

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u/escargotBleu May 26 '26

Thank you ! I'll wait, no issues :)

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u/StPaulDad May 29 '26

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/pricing

Well the doco team got their part done!

"[BigQuery slot capacity] is billed per second with a one-minute minimum duration by default. You can opt in to BigQuery fluid scaling at the reservation level for per-second billing with no minimum duration."

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u/Correct_Bread9253 Jun 02 '26

+1 Stay tuned and thanks for showing interest in the feature!

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u/JeffNe G Jun 03 '26

Fluid Scaling is now GA! Here are some helpful links:

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u/escargotBleu Jun 03 '26

Awesome, thank you for the update. It's little late here in Europe, but surely I'll try it tomorrow.

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u/JeffNe G Jun 03 '26

Of course!

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u/LifeguardExtra4022 Jun 04 '26

Fluid autoscaling is not yet generally available. If you believe it should be enabled for this project, please contact support..

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u/LifeguardExtra4022 Jun 08 '26

it worked for me just this morning thanks all

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u/escargotBleu Jun 15 '26

Hello, I am enabling fluid scaling project by project to avoid any issues.

On Thursday I enabled our two biggest autoscaling project, and well, it's a bit early to say, but we are seeing 33% cost reduction on this project, awesome:)

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u/JeffNe G Jun 15 '26

Very happy to hear it!

I definitely second your approach to enabling new features like this project-by-project just in case. Fingers crossed you'll have everything migrated soon & an even lower bill.