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Pub/Sub, the GCP managed service for message queuing, has two levels of services on standard and one Lite. Standard is the high availability version of it and Lite could be a zonal or regional service with infrastructure managed by the client. Obviously, the model pricing will be very different with a x10 between Standard and zonal Lite. However, the model pricing is the same is based on throughput for message publishing, message storage costs and egress for message distribution. Here, we totally break the similarity with a VM model (except on storage). Everything is drived on volumetry and performance of inbound and outbound messages.
BigQuery has a pricing model close to Pub/Sub : you pay for what you insert on the database (in streaming) and the storage of these data. The main difference is on what you can do with these data. BigQuery is not a message queuing service, this is a data warehouse service. It proposes a query service to exploit these data and you pay for these queries. Actually, not on the query itself but on the quantity of data manipulated for producing the results of the query. This means that you do not directly pay for a power capacity on query but on data transfer to produce the result which is very different from a none managed database perspective such SQL databases where the main model pricing is the node size to store and query data.