Snowflake pricing 2026: plans and costs
How AI answers describe Snowflake pricing
Snowflake publishes consumption pricing, but understanding credit consumption and total costs can be harder.
Compared to: BigQuery · Databricks · AWS
- Snowflake: 30-day trial with $400 in credits.
- Pricing varies by provider: BigQuery charges by data scanned, Snowflake by compute credits plus storage, and Redshift Serverless by RPU-hours.
- Examples include Snowflake’s compute credits plus storage, BigQuery’s per-data-scanned or capacity pricing, and Redshift’s node-hours or serverless processing-unit charges.
Quick pricing summary
- Standard: Custom (consumption-based (credits))
- Enterprise: Custom (consumption-based (credits))
- Business Critical: Custom (consumption-based (credits))
- Virtual Private Snowflake: Custom (contact sales)
- Worth noting: Consumption-based pricing: pay for storage and compute used, on-demand or pre-paid capacity. Prices vary by platform and region and are not stated on the page; see the consumption table. VPS requires talking to sales.
Plans
Standard
Custom consumption-based (credits)
- All core platform functionality with fully managed elastic compute
- Security with automatic encryption of all data
- Snowpark
- Data sharing
- Optimized storage with compression and Time Travel
Enterprise
Custom consumption-based (credits)
- All Standard Edition features
- Ability to use multi-cluster compute
- Granular governance and privacy controls
- Extended Time Travel windows
Business Critical
Custom consumption-based (credits)
- All Enterprise Edition features
- Tri-Secret Secure
- Access to private connectivity
- Failover and failback for backup and disaster recovery
Virtual Private Snowflake
Custom contact sales
- All Business Critical Edition features
- Completely separate Snowflake environment isolated from all other accounts
What you get on each plan
| Feature | Standard | Enterprise | Business Critical | Virtual Private Snowflake |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fully managed elastic compute | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic encryption of all data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snowpark | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data sharing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Travel | ✓ | Extended | Extended | Extended |
| Multi-cluster compute | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Granular governance and privacy controls | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tri-Secret Secure | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Private connectivity | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Failover and failback | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Isolated Snowflake environment | — | — | — | ✓ |
Snowflake pricing vs alternatives
| Brand | Entry price | Free plan | Model | Best for | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowflake | Contact sales | No | Usage-based | — | |
| BigQuery | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Databricks | — | — | — | Data engineering, data science, analytics and AI teams at startups and global enterprises | Compare → |
| AWS | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
| Amazon Redshift | — | — | — | — | Compare → |
List prices as published on www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/. Totals are worked examples, not quotes.