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Snowflake pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Snowflake (snowflake.com) is a data warehouse. Usage-based: warehouse compute is billed in credits per hour at a per-credit price set by edition and region, plus storage per TB per month; prepaid Capacity contracts are discounted.. No free plan.

What Snowflake costs

  • Startup, 100 GB: $122.30/mo (Standard $2.00/credit x 60 credits (60 hours on X-Small at 1 credit/hour) = $120.00; storage 0.1 TB x $23.00 = $2.30; total $122.30.)
  • Hobby, 10 GB: $20.23/mo (Standard $2.00/credit x 10 credits (10 hours on X-Small) = $20.00; storage 0.01 TB x $23.00 = $0.23; total $20.23.)
  • Growth, 1 TB: $523/mo (Standard $2.00/credit x 250 credits (250 hours on X-Small) = $500.00; storage 1 TB x $23.00 = $23.00; total $523.00.)

Plan compared: On-demand Standard edition, AWS US East (N. Virginia), X-Small warehouse (1 credit/hour), monthly billing. 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.

Snowflake price hikes

No price hikes on record for Snowflake.

Cheaper alternatives to Snowflake

At a 100 GB startup warehouse, Snowflake costs $122.30/mo. 2 data warehouses cost less:

  • Google BigQuery: $8.32/mo (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)
  • Amazon Redshift: $92.40/mo (Redshift Serverless at 4 RPU, 60 compute-hours, plus 100 GB managed storage)

Snowflake alternatives: 3 data warehouses compared, at every size.

Every change we logged

  • May 2024 · Price cut: On-demand storage was cut from $40 to $23 per TB per month, per PricingSaaS; the Oct 2026 Snowflake consumption table lists $23.00 for AWS US East. PricingSaaS records it in its 2024 Q2 diff.

Sources

Pricing page: snowflake.com/en/pricing-options. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from Snowflake's Service Consumption Table (effective 2026-10-15): on-demand $2.00/credit for Standard and $23.00/TB-month storage in AWS US East, with X-Small at 1 credit/hour (Table 1(a)); the public pricing page is JavaScript-rendered and shows no figures. PricingSaaS dates the storage cut to 2026-01-22 but labels its diff 2024Q2, so that date is uncertain and its $40 'before' figure is unverified; no list-price increase was found.