What is the difference between Cost, Total Cost, Consumption, and Consumption Unit in GCP Flexreports?
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What is the difference between Cost, Total Cost, Consumption, and Consumption Unit in GCP Flexreports?

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Cost refers to either on-demand cost or credit cost depending on the type of line item. 

Total cost always refers to on-demand cost for every line item.

Consumption is mapped to usage.amount column from big query.
 
Consumption_In_Units is mapped to usage.amount_in_pricing_units from big query.
Please refer to the description from below link for more details:
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/export-data-bigquery-tables/standard-usage