# Sample gcloud commands for setting BigQuery Gen AI quota / limits

> Source: <https://gist.github.com/aliciawilliams/0794622536f63c41381d9837e5c2521c>
> Published: 2026-10-01 19:55:37+00:00

|  | # Replace YOUR_PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project ID and | 
|  | # update each --preferred-value from its default to your target daily limit. | 
|  | # 1. Daily input tokens per project (Default: 200B) | 
|  | gcloud quotas preferences update custom-GenAiInputTokensPerDay \ | 
|  | --project=YOUR_PROJECT_ID \ | 
|  | --service=bigquery.googleapis.com \ | 
|  | --quota-id=GenAiInputTokensPerDay \ | 
|  | --preferred-value=200000000000 \ | 
|  | --allow-high-percentage-quota-decrease \ | 
|  | --allow-missing | 
|  | # 2. Daily input tokens per user (Default: 150B) | 
|  | gcloud quotas preferences update custom-GenAiInputTokensPerUserPerDay \ | 
|  | --project=YOUR_PROJECT_ID \ | 
|  | --service=bigquery.googleapis.com \ | 
|  | --quota-id=GenAiInputTokensPerUserPerDay \ | 
|  | --preferred-value=150000000000 \ | 
|  | --allow-high-percentage-quota-decrease \ | 
|  | --allow-missing | 
|  | # 3. Daily output tokens per project (Default: 20B) | 
|  | gcloud quotas preferences update custom-GenAiOutputTokensPerDay \ | 
|  | --project=YOUR_PROJECT_ID \ | 
|  | --service=bigquery.googleapis.com \ | 
|  | --quota-id=GenAiOutputTokensPerDay \ | 
|  | --preferred-value=20000000000 \ | 
|  | --allow-high-percentage-quota-decrease \ | 
|  | --allow-missing | 
|  | # 4. Daily output tokens per user (Default: 15B) | 
|  | gcloud quotas preferences update custom-GenAiOutputTokensPerUserPerDay \ | 
|  | --project=YOUR_PROJECT_ID \ | 
|  | --service=bigquery.googleapis.com \ | 
|  | --quota-id=GenAiOutputTokensPerUserPerDay \ | 
|  | --preferred-value=15000000000 \ | 
|  | --allow-high-percentage-quota-decrease \ | 
|  | --allow-missing |