Snowflake 3X-Large warehouse cost
A 3X-Large Gen2 warehouse uses 86.4 credits an hour, so on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia) it costs $259 an hour at $3.00 a credit, billed by the second. Below: its credits on each generation and cloud, its price on each edition and in every region, and the sizes either side.
Credits an hour
3X-Large at a glance
- Gen1 standard
- 64
- Every cloud
- Gen2, AWS
- 86.4
- Gen2, Azure
- 80
- Gen2, Google Cloud
- 86.4
- Snowpark, 256 GB
- 96
An hour on each edition
In AWS US East (Northern Virginia), for 1 cluster, billed by the second. Gen2 credits are AWS's.
| Warehouse | Credits | Standard | Enterprise | Business Critical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen2 standard | 86.4 | $173 | $259 | $346 |
| Gen1 standard | 64 | $128 | $192 | $256 |
| Snowpark-optimized, 256 GB | 96 | $192 | $288 | $384 |
| Snowpark-optimized, 1 TB | 120 | $240 | $360 | $480 |
In each region
An hour on Enterprise, cheapest first, on Gen2 where the region sells it. Each region has its own page.
AWS
- US East (Northern Virginia)$259
- US East 2 (Ohio)$259
- US West (Oregon)$259
- AP Mumbai$259
- Africa (Cape Town) · Gen1$269
- EU (Zurich) · Gen1$298
- Canada Central$302
- Europe (Stockholm)$311
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia)$311
- Asia Pacific (Thailand)$311
- AP Singapore$320
- Asia Pacific (Jakarta)$320
- EU (Paris)$337
- EU Dublin$337
- EU Frankfurt$337
- Europe (London)$346
- Middle East (UAE)$346
- Asia Pacific (Seoul)$350
- AP Sydney$350
- Asia Pacific (New Zealand)$350
- AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo)$372
- Asia Pacific (Osaka)$372
- South America East 1 (São Paulo)$402
Azure
- East US 2 (Virginia)$240
- Central US (Iowa)$240
- East US$240
- Mexico Central$240
- South Central US (Texas)$240
- West US 2 (Washington)$240
- Central India (Pune)$240
- Canada Central (Toronto)$280
- Sweden Central$288
- Southeast Asia (Singapore)$296
- North Europe (Ireland)$312
- West Europe (Netherlands)$312
- UK South (London)$320
- UAE North (Dubai)$320
- Korea Central$324
- Australia East (New South Wales)$324
- Japan East (Tokyo)$344
- Switzerland North$372
Every size
- X-Small1 credits an hour on Gen1, 1.35 on Gen2
- Small2 credits an hour on Gen1, 2.7 on Gen2
- Medium4 credits an hour on Gen1, 5.4 on Gen2
- Large8 credits an hour on Gen1, 10.8 on Gen2
- X-Large16 credits an hour on Gen1, 21.6 on Gen2
- 2X-Large32 credits an hour on Gen1, 43.2 on Gen2
- 3X-Large64 credits an hour on Gen1, 86.4 on Gen2
- 4X-Large128 credits an hour on Gen1, 172.8 on Gen2
- 5X-Large256 credits an hour on Gen1, no Gen2
- 6X-Large512 credits an hour on Gen1, no Gen2
Questions
- How many credits does a Snowflake 3X-Large warehouse use?
- A 3X-Large uses 64 credits an hour as a Gen1 standard warehouse. As Gen2 it uses 86.4 on AWS, 80 on Azure and 86.4 on Google Cloud. Each cluster of a multi-cluster warehouse uses the same again.
- How much does a Snowflake 3X-Large warehouse cost an hour?
- In AWS US East (Northern Virginia), a 3X-Large Gen2 warehouse costs $173 an hour on Standard, $259 on Enterprise and $346 on Business Critical, for 86.4 credits an hour. Each region sets its own price for a credit, so the hour costs more or less there.
- What does a 3X-Large warehouse cost for 10 minutes?
- $43.20 on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia): Snowflake bills by the second, so 10 minutes uses a sixth of the 86.4 credits an hour, 14.4 credits. Each start bills at least 60 seconds, $4.32, and the warehouse keeps billing until it suspends, 10 idle minutes by default.
- What does a Snowflake 3X-Large warehouse cost a month?
- Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, with the default auto-suspend, a 3X-Large Gen2 warehouse is billed 5 hours a day and costs $28,512 a month on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia), before storage. Set your own hours in the calculator.
- Which region is cheapest for a Snowflake 3X-Large warehouse?
- On Enterprise, a 3X-Large costs least in Azure East US 2 (Virginia), Azure Central US (Iowa), Azure East US and 4 other regions, at $240 an hour, and most in AWS South America East 1 (São Paulo), at $402, of the 48 regions on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. The gap comes from the price of a credit in each region and, on Gen2, the credits an hour on each cloud.
- Is a Snowflake 3X-Large the same as a Databricks 3X-Large SQL warehouse?
- Only in name. A Databricks 3X-Large serverless SQL warehouse uses 272 DBUs an hour, $190 at $0.70 a DBU in AWS US East (Northern Virginia), against $259 for the Snowflake 3X-Large. The machines and engines differ, so the same queries take a different time on each.
- Is there a Snowpark-optimized 3X-Large warehouse?
- Yes. A Snowpark-optimized 3X-Large, with up to 256 GB of memory a node, uses 96 credits an hour and 120 with up to 1 TB. It suits code with large memory needs, such as machine learning training.
- What is the next Snowflake warehouse size up or down from 3X-Large?
- One size down is 2X-Large, at 32 credits an hour on Gen1; one size up is 4X-Large, at 128. Each size up doubles the credits, so a query that finishes in half the time on the larger size costs the same.
Sources
Where each fact comes from
- 1Snowflake: pricing calculator
- 2Snowflake: Service Consumption Table (credits of each warehouse, credit, storage and transfer prices, serverless rates)
- 3Snowflake documentation: understanding compute cost (per-second billing, cloud services)
- 4Snowflake documentation: Gen2 standard warehouses
- 5Snowflake documentation: Snowpark-optimized warehouses
- 6Snowflake documentation: overview of warehouses (sizes, auto-suspend)
- 7Databricks: pricing on AWS (the price of a DBU for each kind of compute and plan)
- 8Databricks: SQL warehouse sizing, scaling and queuing