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Snowflake cost calculator
Estimate your monthly Snowflake bill from warehouse size, run time, auto-suspend and storage, and see how much you pay for idle warehouses.
How this is calculated
Billed hours per day = hours queries run + idle time after each burst. Each resume bills at least 60 seconds, then the warehouse idles for the auto-suspend window before it stops.
Credits = credits per hour for the size × running clusters × billed hours × days.
Compute = credits × price per credit. Storage = TB × price per TB.
Not included: cloud services above the free 10% of daily credits, serverless features (Snowpipe, search optimization, automatic clustering, tasks on serverless compute), data transfer and Cortex AI functions.
Guides to cut this bill
- Snowflake warehouse sizing →
- Snowflake cost optimization →
- Reading the Query Profile →
- Clustering keys that pay off →
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FAQ
How much does a Snowflake credit cost?
On-demand list prices in AWS US East are about $2 per credit on Standard, $3 on Enterprise and $4 on Business Critical. Other regions and clouds cost more, and capacity contracts cost less, so enter your own rate.
How many credits does a Snowflake warehouse use per hour?
A standard warehouse doubles at each size: X-Small uses 1 credit per hour, Small 2, Medium 4, Large 8, X-Large 16, up to 128 for 4X-Large. Multi-cluster warehouses multiply that by the number of running clusters.
Why does auto-suspend change the bill so much?
Snowflake bills per second while a warehouse runs, with a 60-second minimum each time it resumes. After the last query it keeps running until the auto-suspend timer ends. A warehouse that wakes 100 times a day with a 10-minute timer bills over 16 idle hours, even if the queries took minutes.
Does this include cloud services and serverless features?
No. Cloud services are free up to 10% of daily warehouse credits, which covers most accounts. Snowpipe, search optimization, clustering and other serverless features are billed separately and are not included here.