title: Google BigQuery pricing
body: <p>I'm a Phd student from Singapore Management University. Currently I'm working in Carnegie Mellon University on a research project which needs the historical events from Github Archive (<a href="http://www.githubarchive.org/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.githubarchive.org/</a>). I noticed that Google Bigquery has Github Archive data. So I run a program to crawl data using Google Bigquery service. </p>
  
  <p>I just found that the price of Google bigquery shows on the console is not updated in real-time... While I started running the program for a few hours, the fee was only 4 dollar plus, so I thought the price is reasonable and I kept running the program. After 1~2 days, I checked the price again on Sep 13, 2013, the price became 1388$...I therefore immediately stopped using Google bigquery service. And just now I checked the price again, it turns out I need to pay 4179$...</p>
  
  <p>It is my fault that I didn't realize I need to pay this big amount of money for executing queries and obtaining data from Google bigquery. </p>
  
  <p>This project is only for research, not for commercial purpose. I would like to know whether it is possible to waive the fee.  I really need [Google Bigquery team]'s kindly help. </p>
  
  <p>Thank you very much &amp; Best Regards,
  Lisa</p>