Snowflake
Data / Analytics vendor • Cloud Data Warehouse
Estimated monthly cost
Market estimate, not a quote. Enterprise terms are usually negotiated.
Current list prices
| Standard | Get Started (no price shown) |
| Enterprise | Get Started (no price shown) |
| Business Critical | Get Started (no price shown) |
| Virtual Private Snowflake | Talk to Sales |
| On-Demand Storage | Pay for usage month-to-month (no price shown) |
Read from Snowflake's published pricing page as of Oct 26, 2026. Source →
Change log
- Plan no longer listed: Optimized Storage (was Monthly fee based on average storage used; price shown above but no number appears in the text)
Reconstructed from archived copies of Snowflake's pricing page (Internet Archive). The page was unchanged as of 2026-10-01 and had changed by 2026-10-26; the change happened between those dates.
- Plan no longer listed: On-Demand Storage (month) (was 'Pay for usage month-to-month'; price referenced as shown above but no number appears in the text)
- New plan: Optimized Storage — A monthly fee for data stored in Snowflake is calculated using the average amount of storage used per month, after compression. No amount is shown.
Reconstructed from archived copies of Snowflake's pricing page (Internet Archive). The page was unchanged as of 2025-04-01 and had changed by 2026-07-12; the change happened between those dates.
- New plan: Business Critical — No price shown; 'get started' link
- Plan no longer listed: Business Critical (per credit / usage) (was cost per credit)
- Plan no longer listed: Capacity Storage (per TB / month) (was $ per TB per month)
- New plan: Enterprise — No price shown; 'get started' link
- Plan no longer listed: Enterprise (per credit / usage) (was cost per credit)
- New plan: On-Demand Storage (month) — 'Pay for usage month-to-month'; price referenced as shown above but no number appears in the text
- Plan no longer listed: On-Demand Storage (per TB / month) (was $ per TB per month)
- New plan: Standard — No price shown; 'get started' link
- Plan no longer listed: Standard (per credit / usage) (was cost per credit)
- New plan: Virtual Private Snowflake — Contact sales ('talk to sales')
- Plan no longer listed: Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) (was Contact Us)
Reconstructed from archived copies of Snowflake's pricing page (Internet Archive). The page was unchanged as of 2023-10-05 and had changed by 2025-04-01; the change happened between those dates.
- Plan no longer listed: Business Critical (per credit) (was cost per credit (no amount shown))
- New plan: Business Critical (per credit / usage) — cost per credit
- Plan no longer listed: Enterprise (per credit) (was cost per credit (no amount shown))
- New plan: Enterprise (per credit / usage) — cost per credit
- Plan no longer listed: Standard (per credit) (was cost per credit (no amount shown))
- New plan: Standard (per credit / usage) — cost per credit
Reconstructed from archived copies of Snowflake's pricing page (Internet Archive). The page was unchanged as of 2023-07-05 and had changed by 2023-10-05; the change happened between those dates.
- New plan: Business Critical (per credit) — cost per credit
- Plan no longer listed: Business Critical (per credit / usage) (was cost per credit (no amount shown))
- Plan no longer listed: Capacity Storage (per TB per month) (was $ per TB per month, pay up front (no amount shown))
- New plan: Capacity Storage (per TB / month) — $ per TB per month (no amount shown)
- New plan: Enterprise (per credit) — cost per credit
- Plan no longer listed: Enterprise (per credit / usage) (was cost per credit (no amount shown))
- New plan: Standard (per credit) — cost per credit
- Plan no longer listed: Standard (per credit / usage) (was cost per credit (no amount shown))
Reconstructed from archived copies of Snowflake's pricing page (Internet Archive). The page was unchanged as of 2022-10-03 and had changed by 2023-01-08; the change happened between those dates.
- Plan no longer listed: Business Critical (per credit) (was cost per credit)
- New plan: Business Critical (per credit / usage) — cost per credit (no amount shown)
- New plan: Capacity Storage (per TB per month) — $ per TB per month, pay up front (no amount shown)
- Plan no longer listed: Capacity Storage (per TB / month) (was $ per TB per month)
- Plan no longer listed: Enterprise (per credit) (was cost per credit)
- New plan: Enterprise (per credit / usage) — cost per credit (no amount shown)
- Plan no longer listed: Standard (per credit) (was cost per credit)
- New plan: Standard (per credit / usage) — cost per credit (no amount shown)
Reconstructed from archived copies of Snowflake's pricing page (Internet Archive). The page was unchanged as of 2022-07-01 and had changed by 2022-10-03; the change happened between those dates.
Strengths
- Managed platform combines data warehousing, engineering, sharing, and AI/ML capabilities.
- Separates storage and compute, allowing workloads to scale independently.
- Broad cloud and partner ecosystem, including a marketplace for data products and applications.
- Consumption controls such as warehouse suspension and usage monitoring can help manage spend.
- Strong enterprise adoption and large customer base.
Watch-outs
- Consumption-based billing can make costs difficult to forecast without workload controls, monitoring, and governance.
- Large or poorly optimized queries, always-running warehouses, and serverless features can drive unexpected credit consumption.
- Moving data, pipelines, applications, and governance workflows off the platform can require substantial migration effort.
- Effective pricing depends on cloud region, edition, negotiated credit rates, and committed capacity; list prices may not reflect an enterprise’s actual rates.
- Some platform capabilities and workloads are tied to Snowflake-specific services and SQL behavior.