Snowflake charges for warehouse running time and stored data, with no seat fee. Pick a company like yours or enter your own numbers for a monthly estimate at list price.
Start from a company like yours
Example numbers: A small data team with dbt models and BI tools for most of the company.
Estimated monthly bill at list price
$1,329
420 credits at $3.00 each, plus 3 TB stored.
More usage moves this bill
Snowflake charges for warehouse hours and stored data, with no seat fee. More people only cost more if they keep a warehouse running longer.
Count the time it stays awake, including idle time before it suspends.
After compression.
What would change the bill
Which plan fits
Enterprise is Snowflake’s most popular edition. Business Critical adds private connections and customer-managed keys, and would make this bill $1,749.
What this assumes
Left out of this estimate
Rates from: Snowflake pricing options, Snowflake Service Consumption Table
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You pay for credits and storage. A running warehouse burns credits by size, from 1 an hour on X-Small, doubling with each size up. Snowflake’s list price for a credit is $2.00 on Standard, $3.00 on Enterprise and $4.00 on Business Critical in AWS US East. Storage is $23.00 per TB a month.
These are worked examples at list price, one per company type, using the example numbers shown. They aren’t client results, and real bills depend on how long your warehouses stay awake. Pick one in the calculator to see the full breakdown, then change the hours and sizes to match your own setup.
| Company and example numbers | Monthly estimate |
|---|---|
| 5-person startupOne founder or analyst, a nightly load and a few dashboards. | $92.30 |
| 20-person seed SaaSProduct and billing data loaded daily, with dashboards through the working day. | $311.50 |
| 50 to 100 person B2B SaaSA small data team with dbt models and BI tools for most of the company. | $1,329 |
| 200 to 500 person companySeveral teams sharing the warehouse, with longer load windows. | $5,500 |
| Enterprise, 1,000+ usersRegulated data, heavy transforms and BI running most of the day. | $41,080 |
| Mobile app, 1M monthly usersFew analysts, but a lot of event data to load and model. | $4,305 |
A hypothetical 50 to 100 person B2B SaaS company is on Enterprise. A Small warehouse runs loads for 3 hours a day, another Small serves dashboards for 4 hours a day, and it stores 3 TB.
The estimate is $1,329 a month at list price. One more hour a day on a Small warehouse adds $180.00, while 10 more people reading dashboards add nothing on their own.
On demand in AWS US East, a credit costs $2.00 on Standard, $3.00 on Enterprise and $4.00 on Business Critical. Storage is $23.00 per TB a month. The consumption table sets how many credits each warehouse size burns per hour, and that count stays the same on every edition.
| Rate | List price |
|---|---|
| Credit, StandardAWS US East, on demand. Snowflake | $2.00 |
| Credit, EnterpriseAWS US East, on demand. Snowflake | $3.00 |
| Credit, Business CriticalAWS US East, on demand. Snowflake | $4.00 |
| Storage per TB a monthAfter compression, on demand. Snowflake | $23.00 |
| X-Small warehouseSnowflake | 1 credit/hour |
| Medium warehouseSnowflake | 4 credits/hour |
| Large warehouseSnowflake | 8 credits/hour |
Prices change by region. AWS EU Dublin credits are $2.60, $3.90 and $5.20 across the same three editions.
Snowflake has no seat fee, so a new user costs nothing by themselves. The bill rises when more people keep a warehouse awake for longer, or when many run queries at once and you add clusters. Ten readers on a cached dashboard can cost far less than one analyst running heavy queries.
Running time and size. A warehouse left awake all day burns credits even with little to do, and each size up doubles the rate. A Large warehouse uses 8 credits an hour against 1 on X-Small. Multi-cluster warehouses multiply it again by the number of clusters running.
Set warehouses to auto-suspend soon after queries finish, so idle time stops burning credits. Start small and size up only when queries run too slowly. Give loads and dashboards separate warehouses so you can see which one costs what. Add a resource monitor or budget to warn you before a month runs over.
Standard covers most small teams. Enterprise adds extra compute for busy periods and 90-day data recovery, at $3.00 a credit against $2.00. Business Critical adds private connections, customer-managed keys and support for HIPAA and PCI DSS, at $4.00. The edition changes the price of every credit, so pick it for a real need.
It covers warehouse compute and storage. It leaves out AI features, serverless features and data transfer out of the region. Cloud services are only free up to 10% of daily warehouse credits, so a workload with very many small queries can add a line that this estimate doesn’t show.
Roles and cost controls are easiest to set before the bill grows. Our Snowflake consulting sets them up at a fixed price.
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