diff --git a/bigquery/bigframes/query_dry_run.py b/bigquery/bigframes/query_dry_run.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ee1c1ab834
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/bigframes/query_dry_run.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START bigquery_bigframes_query_dry_run]
+from typing import Tuple
+
+import bigframes.pandas as bpd
+import pandas as pd
+
+# Set partial ordering mode as the default configuration for BigQuery
+# DataFrames.
+bpd.options.bigquery.ordering_mode = "partial"
+
+
+def query_dry_run(
+    project_id: str = "your-project-id",
+) -> Tuple[pd.Series, pd.Series]:
+    """Estimates the bytes processed by a SQL query and a DataFrame operation."""
+    bpd.options.bigquery.project = project_id
+
+    sql = """
+    SELECT name, SUM(number) AS total_people
+    FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current`
+    WHERE state = 'TX'
+    GROUP BY name
+    """
+
+    # Perform a dry run on a SQL query without executing it.
+    sql_stats = bpd.read_gbq(sql, use_cache=False, dry_run=True)
+    print(f"SQL query will process {sql_stats['totalBytesProcessed']} bytes.")
+
+    # Perform a dry run on BigQuery DataFrames operations before downloading
+    # results to an in-memory pandas DataFrame.
+    df = bpd.read_gbq("bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current")
+    df_tx = df[df["state"] == "TX"].groupby("name", as_index=False)["number"].sum()
+    df_stats = df_tx.to_pandas(dry_run=True)
+    print(f"DataFrame operation will process {df_stats['totalBytesProcessed']} bytes.")
+
+    return sql_stats, df_stats
+
+
+# [END bigquery_bigframes_query_dry_run]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import os
+
+    project = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT", "your-project-id")
+    query_dry_run(project_id=project)
diff --git a/bigquery/bigframes/query_dry_run_test.py b/bigquery/bigframes/query_dry_run_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0755b678fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/bigframes/query_dry_run_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import bigframes.pandas as bpd
+import pytest
+
+import query_dry_run
+
+
+def test_query_dry_run(project_id: str, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture) -> None:
+    bpd.close_session()
+
+    sql_stats, df_stats = query_dry_run.query_dry_run(project_id=project_id)
+    out, _ = capsys.readouterr()
+
+    assert sql_stats["totalBytesProcessed"] > 0
+    assert df_stats["totalBytesProcessed"] > 0
+    assert "bytes" in out
diff --git a/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/query_dry_run.py b/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/query_dry_run.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..15889f52e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/query_dry_run.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START bigquery_migration_pandas_gbq_query_dry_run]
+import pandas as pd
+import pandas_gbq
+
+
+def query_dry_run(project_id: str = "your-project-id") -> pd.Series:
+    """Estimates the bytes processed by a SQL query using a dry run."""
+    sql = """
+    SELECT name, SUM(number) AS total_people
+    FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current`
+    WHERE state = 'TX'
+    GROUP BY name
+    """
+
+    # Perform a dry run to estimate bytes processed without running the query.
+    query_config = {
+        "query": {
+            "useQueryCache": False,
+        }
+    }
+    stats = pandas_gbq.read_gbq(
+        sql,
+        project_id=project_id,
+        configuration=query_config,
+        dry_run=True,
+    )
+    print(f"This query will process {stats['totalBytesProcessed']} bytes.")
+    return stats
+
+
+# [END bigquery_migration_pandas_gbq_query_dry_run]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import os
+
+    project = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT", "your-project-id")
+    query_dry_run(project_id=project)
diff --git a/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/query_dry_run_test.py b/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/query_dry_run_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d06ceada95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/query_dry_run_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+
+import pytest
+
+import query_dry_run
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def project_id() -> str:
+    return os.environ["GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT"]
+
+
+def test_query_dry_run(project_id: str, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture) -> None:
+    stats = query_dry_run.query_dry_run(project_id=project_id)
+    out, _ = capsys.readouterr()
+
+    assert stats["totalBytesProcessed"] > 0
+    assert "bytes" in out
diff --git a/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/requirements.txt b/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/requirements.txt
index cec3110949..dd6bdabfdb 100644
--- a/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/requirements.txt
+++ b/bigquery/pandas-gbq-migration/requirements.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 google-cloud-bigquery==3.27.0
 google-cloud-bigquery-storage==2.27.0
 pandas==2.0.3; python_version == '3.8'
-pandas==2.2.3; python_version > '3.8'
-pandas-gbq==0.24.0
+pandas==2.2.3; python_version < '3.11'
+pandas==3.1.0; python_version >= '3.11'
+pandas-gbq==0.35.3
 grpcio==1.70.0; python_version == '3.8'
-grpcio==1.74.0; python_version > '3.8'
+grpcio==1.74.0; python_version == '3.9'
+grpcio==1.85.1; python_version >= '3.10'
 pyarrow==24.0.0
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/README.md b/bigquery/polars/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..14de2f0ebc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# polars-bigquery samples
+
+This directory contains samples used to demonstrate use of the `polars-bigquery`
+package.
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/conftest.py b/bigquery/polars/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..731ebc3e30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Copyright 2021 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import os
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope="session")
+def project_id() -> str:
+    return os.environ["GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT"]
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/noxfile_config.py b/bigquery/polars/noxfile_config.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a4cb0cac19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/noxfile_config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Copyright 2021 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Default TEST_CONFIG_OVERRIDE for python repos.
+
+# You can copy this file into your directory, then it will be imported from
+# the noxfile.py.
+
+# The source of truth:
+# https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/blob/main/noxfile_config.py
+
+TEST_CONFIG_OVERRIDE = {
+    # You can opt out from the test for specific Python versions.
+    # Skipping for Python 3.9 due to pyarrow compilation failure.
+    "ignored_versions": ["3.8", "3.9", "3.11", "3.12", "3.13"],
+    # Old samples are opted out of enforcing Python type hints
+    # All new samples should feature them
+    "enforce_type_hints": False,
+    # An envvar key for determining the project id to use. Change it
+    # to 'BUILD_SPECIFIC_GCLOUD_PROJECT' if you want to opt in using a
+    # build specific Cloud project. You can also use your own string
+    # to use your own Cloud project.
+    "gcloud_project_env": "GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT",
+    # 'gcloud_project_env': 'BUILD_SPECIFIC_GCLOUD_PROJECT',
+    # A dictionary you want to inject into your test. Don't put any
+    # secrets here. These values will override predefined values.
+    "envs": {},
+}
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/query_bqstorage.py b/bigquery/polars/query_bqstorage.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..626b5fa687
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/query_bqstorage.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START bigquery_polars_query_bqstorage]
+import polars
+import polars_bigquery
+
+
+def construct_client(project_id: str = "your-project-id") -> polars_bigquery.Client:
+    return polars_bigquery.Client(
+        quota_project_id=project_id,
+    )
+
+
+def query_bqstorage(plbq: polars_bigquery.Client) -> polars.DataFrame:
+    sql = """
+    SELECT year, name, SUM(number)
+    FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current`
+    GROUP BY year, name
+    """
+
+    # Run a query and immediately download the results. polars-biqquery
+    # automatically uses the BigQuery Storage Read API to download results that
+    # don't fit in a single response message.
+    df = plbq.read_query(
+        sql,
+        # For the best performance, set maintain_order=False if you don't care
+        # about the order of the rows in the result. This allows polars-bigquery
+        # to create multiple BigQuery Storage Read API read streams if needed.
+        maintain_order=False,
+    )
+    return df
+# [END bigquery_polars_query_bqstorage]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import os
+
+    project = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT", "your-project-id")
+    print(query_bqstorage(construct_client(project)))
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/query_bqstorage_test.py b/bigquery/polars/query_bqstorage_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3d884d125c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/query_bqstorage_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import query_bqstorage
+
+
+def test_query_bqstorage(project_id: str) -> None:
+    plbq = query_bqstorage.construct_client(project_id=project_id)
+    pandas_df = query_bqstorage.query_bqstorage(plbq)
+    assert pandas_df is not None
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/query_dry_run.py b/bigquery/polars/query_dry_run.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ebf1e1709f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/query_dry_run.py
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START bigquery_polars_query_dry_run]
+import polars
+import polars_bigquery
+
+
+def construct_client(
+    project_id: str = "your-project-id",
+) -> polars_bigquery.Client:
+    """Constructs a Polars BigQuery client."""
+    return polars_bigquery.Client(
+        quota_project_id=project_id,
+    )
+
+
+def query_dry_run(plbq: polars_bigquery.Client) -> polars.DataFrame:
+    """Estimates the bytes processed by a SQL query using a dry run."""
+    sql = """
+    SELECT name, SUM(number) AS total_people
+    FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current`
+    WHERE state = 'TX'
+    GROUP BY name
+    """
+
+    # Perform a dry run to validate the query and estimate bytes processed
+    # without executing the query.
+    stats = plbq.read_query(
+        sql,
+        dry_run=True,
+        use_query_cache=False,
+    )
+    total_bytes = stats.item(0, "totalBytesProcessed")
+    print(f"This query will process {total_bytes} bytes.")
+    return stats
+
+
+# [END bigquery_polars_query_dry_run]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import os
+
+    project = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT", "your-project-id")
+    query_dry_run(construct_client(project_id=project))
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/query_dry_run_test.py b/bigquery/polars/query_dry_run_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..26767993ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/query_dry_run_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import pytest
+
+import query_dry_run
+
+
+def test_query_dry_run(project_id: str, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture) -> None:
+    plbq = query_dry_run.construct_client(project_id=project_id)
+
+    stats = query_dry_run.query_dry_run(plbq)
+    out, _ = capsys.readouterr()
+
+    assert stats.item(0, "totalBytesProcessed") > 0
+    assert "bytes" in out
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/query_standard_sql.py b/bigquery/polars/query_standard_sql.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..07c54e0fc2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/query_standard_sql.py
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# [START bigquery_polars_query]
+import polars
+import polars_bigquery
+
+
+def construct_client(project_id: str = "your-project-id") -> polars_bigquery.Client:
+    return polars_bigquery.Client(
+        quota_project_id=project_id,
+    )
+
+
+def query_standard_sql(plbq: polars_bigquery.Client) -> polars.DataFrame:
+    sql = """
+    SELECT name, sum(number) as total_people
+    FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_current`
+    WHERE state = 'TX'
+    GROUP BY name
+    ORDER BY total_people DESC
+    LIMIT 100
+    """
+
+    # Run a query and immediately download the results.
+    df = plbq.read_query(
+        sql,
+        # For the best performance, set maintain_order=False if you don't care
+        # about the order of the rows in the result.
+        maintain_order=True,
+    )
+    return df
+# [END bigquery_polars_query]
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    import os
+
+    project = os.environ.get("GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT", "your-project-id")
+    print(query_standard_sql(construct_client(project_id=project)))
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/query_standard_sql_test.py b/bigquery/polars/query_standard_sql_test.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..86e87cf589
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/query_standard_sql_test.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Copyright 2026 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import query_standard_sql
+
+
+def test_query_standard_sql(project_id: str) -> None:
+    plbq = query_standard_sql.construct_client(project_id=project_id)
+    df = query_standard_sql.query_standard_sql(plbq)
+    assert df is not None
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/requirements-test.txt b/bigquery/polars/requirements-test.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c9e154ba44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/requirements-test.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+pytest==9.0.3; python_version >= "3.10"
diff --git a/bigquery/polars/requirements.txt b/bigquery/polars/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..829e201beb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/polars/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+polars-bigquery==0.3.0
+polars==2.1.0