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Google introduced flex slots pricing for BigQuery. Read about this new pricing model, how to programmatically get slots & assign them to your project.

Assignments of type ML_EXTERNAL are an exception in that slots used by BigQuery ML external model creation jobs are not preemptible.

This pricing scheme is ideal for clients who mostly run ad-hoc or non-critical workloads because BigQuery processes queries in terms of “slots.” A slot is a measure of processing capacity.