Snowflake alternatives
At a 100 GB startup warehouse, Snowflake costs $122.30 a month. 2 data warehouses cost less, from $8.32 (Google BigQuery). Ranked by price at the size you pick, with free plans, price hikes and how to switch.
Alternatives to Snowflake at a 100 GB startup warehouse, cheapest first
- Google BigQuery: $8.32/mo Scan-based: price depends on bytes read, not seats (On-demand: $6.25/TiB of queries after the free 1 TiB, plus $0.023/GiB-mo storage after the free 10 GiB, at 2 TiB scanned). Free plan: 1 TiB of query scanning and 10 GiB of active storage free each month per billing account (a usage tier, not a trial)..
- Amazon Redshift: $92.40/mo Serverless min 4 RPU; excludes $300 new-user credit (Redshift Serverless at 4 RPU, 60 compute-hours, plus 100 GB managed storage). Free plan: none.
- Databricks: $170.30/mo Plus S3 storage; $0.70/DBU not on official page (SQL Serverless, 2X-Small warehouse (4 DBU/hr) at $0.70/DBU). Free plan: Free Edition is for learning and non-commercial use only, so it does not count toward the price..
Prices at every size
- Snowflake: a 100 GB startup warehouse $122.30/mo, a 10 GB hobby project $20.23/mo, a 1 TB growing company warehouse $523/mo (Standard edition, on-demand, AWS US East)
- Google BigQuery: a 100 GB startup warehouse $8.32/mo, a 10 GB hobby project free, a 1 TB growing company warehouse $142.07/mo (Scan-based: price depends on bytes read, not seats)
- Amazon Redshift: a 100 GB startup warehouse $92.40/mo, a 10 GB hobby project $15.24/mo, a 1 TB growing company warehouse $399/mo (Serverless min 4 RPU; excludes $300 new-user credit)
- Databricks: a 100 GB startup warehouse $170.30/mo, a 10 GB hobby project $28.23/mo, a 1 TB growing company warehouse $723/mo (Plus S3 storage; $0.70/DBU not on official page)
Every price is the monthly cost, at on-demand list prices, of the same analytics workload in a US region: a startup warehouse with 100 GB stored and 2 TB scanned (or 60 compute-hours) a month as the headline, a 10 GB hobby project and a 1 TB growing company. Scan-priced products are priced on data scanned, compute-priced ones on hours of their smallest compute size, always-on ones for the full month, plus storage; permanent free tiers count, trials and credits do not.
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