Snowflake 6X-Large warehouse cost
A 6X-Large Gen1 warehouse uses 512 credits an hour, so on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia) it costs $1,536 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
6X-Large at a glance
- Gen1 standard
- 512
- Every cloud
- Gen2, AWS
- None
- Not sold in this size
- Gen2, Azure
- None
- Not sold in this size
- Gen2, Google Cloud
- None
- Not sold in this size
- Snowpark, 256 GB
- 768
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen1 standard | 512 | $1,024 | $1,536 | $2,048 |
| Snowpark-optimized, 256 GB | 768 | $1,536 | $2,304 | $3,072 |
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) · Gen1$1,536
- US East 2 (Ohio) · Gen1$1,536
- US West (Oregon) · Gen1$1,536
- AP Mumbai · Gen1$1,536
- Canada Central · Gen1$1,792
- Europe (Stockholm) · Gen1$1,843
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia) · Gen1$1,843
- Asia Pacific (Thailand) · Gen1$1,843
- AP Singapore · Gen1$1,894
- Asia Pacific (Jakarta) · Gen1$1,894
- EU (Paris) · Gen1$1,997
- EU Dublin · Gen1$1,997
- EU Frankfurt · Gen1$1,997
- Europe (London) · Gen1$2,048
- Middle East (UAE) · Gen1$2,048
- Asia Pacific (Seoul) · Gen1$2,074
- AP Sydney · Gen1$2,074
- Asia Pacific (New Zealand) · Gen1$2,074
- Africa (Cape Town) · Gen1$2,150
- AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo) · Gen1$2,202
- Asia Pacific (Osaka) · Gen1$2,202
- South America East 1 (São Paulo) · Gen1$2,381
- EU (Zurich) · Gen1$2,381
Azure
- East US 2 (Virginia) · Gen1$1,536
- Central US (Iowa) · Gen1$1,536
- East US · Gen1$1,536
- Mexico Central · Gen1$1,536
- South Central US (Texas) · Gen1$1,536
- West US 2 (Washington) · Gen1$1,536
- Central India (Pune) · Gen1$1,536
- Canada Central (Toronto) · Gen1$1,792
- Sweden Central · Gen1$1,843
- Southeast Asia (Singapore) · Gen1$1,894
- North Europe (Ireland) · Gen1$1,997
- West Europe (Netherlands) · Gen1$1,997
- UK South (London) · Gen1$2,048
- UAE North (Dubai) · Gen1$2,048
- Korea Central · Gen1$2,074
- Australia East (New South Wales) · Gen1$2,074
- Japan East (Tokyo) · Gen1$2,202
- Switzerland North · Gen1$2,381
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 6X-Large warehouse use?
- A 6X-Large uses 512 credits an hour, as a Gen1 standard warehouse. Snowflake sells no Gen2 warehouse this large, so a 6X-Large is Gen1. Each cluster of a multi-cluster warehouse uses the same again.
- How much does a Snowflake 6X-Large warehouse cost an hour?
- In AWS US East (Northern Virginia), a 6X-Large Gen1 warehouse costs $1,024 an hour on Standard, $1,536 on Enterprise and $2,048 on Business Critical, for 512 credits an hour. Each region sets its own price for a credit, so the hour costs more or less there.
- What does a 6X-Large warehouse cost for 10 minutes?
- $256 on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia): Snowflake bills by the second, so 10 minutes uses a sixth of the 512 credits an hour, 85.33 credits. Each start bills at least 60 seconds, $25.60, and the warehouse keeps billing until it suspends, 10 idle minutes by default.
- What does a Snowflake 6X-Large warehouse cost a month?
- Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, with the default auto-suspend, a 6X-Large Gen1 warehouse is billed 5 hours a day and costs $168,960 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 6X-Large warehouse?
- On Enterprise, a 6X-Large costs least in AWS US East (Northern Virginia), AWS US East 2 (Ohio), AWS US West (Oregon) and 10 other regions, at $1,536 an hour, and most in Google Cloud Middle East Central 2 (Dammam), at $2,509, 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 there a Databricks SQL warehouse as large as a Snowflake 6X-Large?
- Not by name. Databricks' serverless SQL warehouses stop at 4X-Large, while Snowflake sells Gen1 warehouses up to 6X-Large. A larger Databricks workload adds clusters to a warehouse instead.
- What is the next Snowflake warehouse size down from 6X-Large?
- 6X-Large is the largest Snowflake warehouse. One size down is 5X-Large, at 256 credits an hour on Gen1, half as many.
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