Google Merchant Center Price Competitiveness table
Overview
Price competitiveness data in BigQuery helps merchants understand howother merchants are pricing the same product. When your Google Merchant Centerreporting data is transferred to BigQuery, the format of thePriceCompetitiveness_ table provides a daily price benchmark per country andper product. The price competitiveness table also contains several otherattributes of the product to help you to understand the competitiveness of yourpricing within a category or brand for example.
The data is written to a table namedPriceCompetitiveness_MERCHANT_IDif you are using an individual Merchant ID, orPriceCompetitiveness_AGGREGATOR_ID if you'reusing an MCA account.
Schema
ThePriceCompetitiveness_ tables have the following schema:
| Column | BigQuery data type | Description | Example data |
|---|---|---|---|
aggregator_id | INTEGER | ID of theMulti Client Account (MCA) if the merchant is part of an MCA. Null otherwise. | 12345 |
merchant_id | INTEGER | Google Merchant Center account ID. This field is a primary key. | 1234 |
id | STRING | Content API REST ID of the product in the form:channel:content_language:feed_label:offer_id, similar to the way it's defined in theproducts table schema. This field is a primary key. | online:en:AU:666840730 |
title | STRING | Title of the product. | TN2351 black USB |
brand | STRING | Brand of the product. | Brand Name |
offer_id | STRING | Merchant providedid of the product. | tddy123uk |
benchmark_price | RECORD | Average click-weighted price for a given product across all merchants who advertise that same product on Shopping ads. Products are matched based on theirGTIN. For more details, seeHelp Center article about the price competitiveness report. | |
benchmark_price.amount_micros | INTEGER | Price of the item, in micros (1 is represented as 1000000). | 1000000 |
benchmark_price.currency_code | STRING | Currency of the price of the item. | USD |
price | RECORD | Price of this product. | |
price.amount_micros | STRING | Price of the item, in micros (1 is represented as 1000000). | 1000000 |
price.currency_code | INTEGER | Currency of the price of the item. | USD |
report_country_code | STRING | Country code where the user performed the query on Google. | CH, US |
product_type_l1 | STRING | Product type attribute of the product. | |
product_type_l2 | STRING | Product type attribute of the product. | |
product_type_l3 | STRING | Product type attribute of the product. | |
product_type_l4 | STRING | Product type attribute of the product. | |
product_type_l5 | STRING | Product type attribute of the product. | |
category_l1 | STRING | Google product category of the product. | Animals & Pet Supplies |
category_l2 | STRING | Google product category of the product. | Pet Supplies |
category_l3 | STRING | Google product category of the product. | Dog Supplies |
category_l4 | STRING | Google product category of the product. | Dog Beds |
category_l5 | STRING | Google product category of the product. |
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Last updated 2026-02-19 UTC.