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Snowflake plans and prices
| Plan | Price | Billing |
|---|---|---|
| StandardAn entry-level, introductory offering providing access to core functionality. | $2.00 | per credit ($USD) |
| EnterpriseHighlightedMost popular and addresses the needs of high-growth, large-scale customers. | $3.00 | per credit ($USD) |
| Business CriticalOffers functionality for highly regulated industries with regulations of sensitive data. | $4.00 | per credit ($USD) |
| Virtual Private SnowflakeVirtual Private Snowflake (VPS) includes all the features of Business Critical Edition, but in a completely separate Snowflake environment, isolated from all other Snowflake accounts. | TALK TO SALES |
As printed on the page captured September 18, 2026.
How does Snowflake pricing work?
The value metric is the Snowflake credit, a unit of compute consumption, and the edition sets its price. Standard is '$2.00 / per credit ($USD)', Enterprise '$3.00', Business Critical '$4.00', each stamped 'AWS, US East (Northern Virginia)' to match the PLATFORM and REGION selectors. Editions are feature gates on the same unit: Enterprise adds 'Ability to use multi-cluster compute', 'Granular governance and privacy controls' and 'Extended Time Travel windows', and Business Critical adds 'Tri-Secret Secure', 'Access to private connectivity' and 'Failover and failback for backup and disaster recovery'. Virtual Private Snowflake 'includes all the features of Business Critical Edition, but in a completely separate Snowflake environment'. Storage is billed apart from compute at '$23.00 per TB / per month ($USD)' on demand.
'We keep pricing simple with a consumption-based pricing model.' opens the page, with a link to the consumption table for every specific rate. Standard, Enterprise and Business Critical each carry GET STARTED, Enterprise is marked 'MOST POPULAR', and Virtual Private Snowflake goes to TALK TO SALES. A sticky sub-nav offers OVERVIEW, COST & PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION, PRICING CALCULATOR and RESOURCES as their own pages. Below the cards come the storage section with 'DOWNLOAD SNOWFLAKE PRICING GUIDE', a 'What's Included' checklist under 'A FULLY MANAGED PRODUCT DELIVERS SIMPLICITY AND BETTER TCO', a brand strip, cost-management resources, a migration block and a closing band with START FOR FREE and WATCH A DEMO.
An edition multiplier on one consumption unit lets Snowflake charge for security and governance without seats or new meters: the same workload costs 50% more per credit on Enterprise than on Standard, and twice as much on Business Critical, because the controls around the compute are worth more to a regulated buyer. Compute and storage stay separate, so each cost driver can be modeled on its own. The storage note reveals the commercial structure: 'There are two ways to buy the Snowflake Service: On-demand or pre-paid capacity', and capacity storage discounts sit in 'Table 3(a) in the Snowflake Service Consumption Table'. The list price is the on-demand anchor, and pre-paid capacity is where committed spend earns its discount.
What does Snowflake's pricing page do well?
- PLATFORM and REGION selectors drive every price, and each card repeats the selection under its rate, so a buyer reads the price for their own deployment
- Each edition card lists the controls that justify its step, such as 'Tri-Secret Secure' and private connectivity on Business Critical, which maps the premium to a specific requirement
- Enterprise is marked 'MOST POPULAR' with the filled GET STARTED button, giving the ladder a clear default
- Storage has its own card and price, '$23.00 per TB / per month ($USD)', keeping compute and storage economics distinct
- Cost-management resources, from the 'Definitive Guide to Managing Spend in Snowflake' to the 'Cost Management Bootcamp', sit on the pricing page next to the rates
What does Snowflake's pricing page reveal about its pricing strategy?
- One unit, three prices: the credit price rises from $2.00 to $4.00 with governance, so security and compliance are monetized through the rate
- Pricing varies by cloud and region across dozens of options, including Fedramp and DoD regions, which reflects real differences in what each deployment costs to run
- On-demand list prices anchor the model, and pre-paid capacity with its own discount table is the committed path for larger spend
- Virtual Private Snowflake prices isolation itself: the Business Critical feature set in a separate environment, sold through sales
- Placing a spend-management curriculum on the pricing page treats bill predictability as part of what a consumption customer buys
Learn with Orb
- ProductPrepaid credits Compute bills in credits priced at $2.00, $3.00 and $4.00 by edition; Orb's prepaid credits cover how credit rates shape value capture, including bulk discounts on larger commitments.
- GuideAn AI founder's guide to prepaid credits Pre-paid capacity with its own discount table is the committed path beside on-demand list prices; the guide covers how commitments earn a better rate per credit and how overage bills.
- ProductSpend controls A spend-management curriculum, from a guide to managing spend to a cost management bootcamp, sits on the pricing page; Orb's spend controls cover alerts and dashboards for predictable consumption bills.
Questions about Snowflake pricing
How much does Snowflake cost?
Snowflake's pricing starts at $2/credit. The page shows 4 plans, with the top plan priced through sales.
What pricing model does Snowflake use?
Snowflake prices by usage. Buyers can sign up on their own or go through the sales team. Its plans are aimed mainly at enterprises.
Does Snowflake have a free plan?
Snowflake's pricing page shows no free plan or free trial. The lowest paid plan starts at $2/credit.
Does Snowflake offer an annual discount?
Snowflake's pricing page shows a single billing period. The listed prices start at $2/credit. Terms for the plans priced through sales are set with the sales team.
How is Snowflake's pricing page laid out?
The page shows 4 plans, highlights Enterprise. The breakdown above marks 14 points on it: 6 things it does well and 8 insights into the pricing.
How much does Snowflake charge for data storage?
Snowflake bills storage as a monthly fee separate from compute, calculated using the average amount of storage used per month, after compression, for data ingested into Snowflake. On-Demand Storage is listed at "$23.00 per TB / per month ($USD)" for AWS, US East (Northern Virginia), paid month-to-month. The PLATFORM and REGION selectors let buyers view pricing for their own deployment.
Does Snowflake offer discounts for pre-paid capacity?
Yes. The page states "There are two ways to buy the Snowflake Service: On-demand or pre-paid capacity." The $23.00 per TB storage price reflects the list price, and capacity storage discounts are listed in Table 3(a) in the Snowflake Service Consumption Table. A DOWNLOAD SNOWFLAKE PRICING GUIDE link sits alongside for more detail.
What is Virtual Private Snowflake and how do you buy it?
Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) "includes all the features of Business Critical Edition, but in a completely separate Snowflake environment, isolated from all other Snowflake accounts." It is the top tier above Business Critical, which is listed at $4.00 per credit. VPS is purchased through Snowflake's sales team via the TALK TO SALES button.
From the page as captured September 18, 2026. Current prices are on snowflake.com
Chroma
$250/mo + usageChroma prints all four metered rates in the hero, Write at $2.50 per GiB, Storage at $0.33 per GiB per month, Query at $0.0075 per TiB and Network at $0.09 per GiB returned, then hands the reader a calculator that turns documents and queries into a $79 monthly total. Plans sit on top of the meter: Starter at $0 plus usage, Team at $250 a month plus usage with $100 in credits, and Enterprise on custom terms.
ClickHouse
$0.2181/compute unit/hrClickHouse opens with its model in one line, 'Pay only for the compute and storage you use, metered separately and scaled to zero when idle.', sets the cloud and region, then gives every tier the same two meters: storage flat at '$25.30 Per 1TB / mo' and compute at $0.2181, $0.2985 and $0.3903 per unit per hour. The estimator opens pre-filled with a 1 TB real-time analytics workload at '$658' a month, and an eight-question FAQ explains each line that can appear on the bill.
Confluent
~$385/moConfluent prices serverless Kafka on a composite meter, eCKU-hours plus data in and out per GB plus storage per GB-month, and closes its rate table with an 'Estimated Monthly Starting Cost' of $0, $385, $895 and $2,300 that turns an hourly unit into a budget number. Behind it sit two discount structures and an annual commitment that can be spent across the whole Confluent Cloud stack.
CoreWeave
From $6.50/instance/hrCoreWeave publishes a full rate card: twelve GPU instance types and ten CPU types, each priced per hour on-demand and spot for North America and Europe, then storage, networking, Direct Connect and managed Kubernetes. The unit is a fully specified instance-hour, with GPU count, VRAM, vCPUs, system RAM and local storage printed beside every rate. Reserved capacity, the newest silicon and every next step run through the sales team, which is where a GPU cloud shapes committed deals.
Databricks
From $0.069/CUDatabricks prices a whole data platform on one consumption unit, the DBU, with seven workload tiles that each print a 'Starting at' rate and link to a full SKU price list. Billing runs 'at per second granularity' on pay-as-you-go, and Committed Use Contracts trade larger commitments for discounts that can flex across clouds. The page works as the front door to a rate table, organized by the job a customer is doing.
Datadog
$15/host/moDatadog publishes a rate card per product, with every billable SKU listed in a left-hand navigator from AI Credits to Workflow Automation. Infrastructure Monitoring prices per host across three host levels: Basic, set with sales, beside Pro starting at $ 15 and Enterprise at $ 23 billed annually, with on-demand rates printed beside them and allotments of containers, custom metrics and custom events attached to each paid host. The bill is the sum of the products a customer adopts, and Basic hosts let one account price noncritical workloads at their own level.