Snowflake pricing in US East (Northern Virginia)
In AWS US East (Northern Virginia), the region the cloud calls us-east-1, a Snowflake credit costs $2.00 on Standard, $3.00 on Enterprise and $4.00 on Business Critical, and storage $23.00 a TB a month. A Medium Gen2 warehouse costs $16.20 an hour there on Enterprise.
AWS · us-east-1
A credit, storage and transfer
- Standard
- $2.00
- A credit
- Enterprise
- $3.00
- A credit
- Business Critical
- $4.00
- A credit
- Storage
- $23.00
- A TB a month
- To AWS
- $20.00
- A TB to another region
- To the internet
- $90.00
- A TB to another cloud
Each warehouse size an hour
Gen2 standard warehouses up to 4X-Large, Gen1 above, for 1 cluster.
| Size | Credits | Standard | Enterprise | Business Critical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| X-Small | 1.35 | $2.70 | $4.05 | $5.40 |
| Small | 2.7 | $5.40 | $8.10 | $10.80 |
| Medium | 5.4 | $10.80 | $16.20 | $21.60 |
| Large | 10.8 | $21.60 | $32.40 | $43.20 |
| X-Large | 21.6 | $43.20 | $64.80 | $86.40 |
| 2X-Large | 43.2 | $86.40 | $130 | $173 |
| 3X-Large | 86.4 | $173 | $259 | $346 |
| 4X-Large | 172.8 | $346 | $518 | $691 |
| 5X-LargeGen1 | 256 | $512 | $768 | $1,024 |
| 6X-LargeGen1 | 512 | $1,024 | $1,536 | $2,048 |
Every AWS region
A credit on Enterprise, cheapest first.
- US East (Northern Virginia)us-east-1, $3.00 a credit
- US East 2 (Ohio)us-east-2, $3.00 a credit
- US West (Oregon)us-west-2, $3.00 a credit
- AP Mumbaiap-south-1, $3.00 a credit
- Canada Centralca-central-1, $3.50 a credit
- Europe (Stockholm)eu-north-1, $3.60 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia)ap-southeast-5, $3.60 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Thailand)ap-southeast-7, $3.60 a credit
- AP Singaporeap-southeast-1, $3.70 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Jakarta)ap-southeast-3, $3.70 a credit
- EU (Paris)eu-west-3, $3.90 a credit
- EU Dublineu-west-1, $3.90 a credit
- EU Frankfurteu-central-1, $3.90 a credit
- Europe (London)eu-west-2, $4.00 a credit
- Middle East (UAE)me-central-1, $4.00 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Seoul)ap-northeast-2, $4.05 a credit
- AP Sydneyap-southeast-2, $4.05 a credit
- Asia Pacific (New Zealand)ap-southeast-6, $4.05 a credit
- Africa (Cape Town)af-south-1, $4.20 a credit
- AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo)ap-northeast-1, $4.30 a credit
- Asia Pacific (Osaka)ap-northeast-3, $4.30 a credit
- South America East 1 (São Paulo)sa-east-1, $4.65 a credit
- EU (Zurich)eu-central-2, $4.65 a credit
Questions
- How much does a Snowflake credit cost in US East (Northern Virginia)?
- On demand, a credit in AWS US East (Northern Virginia) (us-east-1) costs $2.00 on Standard, $3.00 on Enterprise and $4.00 on Business Critical. Capacity contracts agreed with Snowflake pay less.
- How much does a Snowflake warehouse cost an hour in US East (Northern Virginia)?
- On Enterprise, an X-Small Gen2 warehouse costs $4.05 an hour for 1.35 credits credits, and a Medium $16.20 for 5.4, each size up doubling the price. Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, a Medium costs $1,782 a month.
- How much does Snowflake storage cost in US East (Northern Virginia)?
- $23.00 a TB a month on demand, for the compressed data Snowflake stores, including the copies kept for Time Travel and Fail-safe. Files staged for loading count too.
- How much does Snowflake charge for data transfer out of US East (Northern Virginia)?
- Moving a TB to another AWS region costs $20.00, and to another cloud or the internet $90.00. Loading data in, and moving it within US East (Northern Virginia), is free.
- Does Snowflake offer Gen2 warehouses in US East (Northern Virginia)?
- Yes. Gen2 standard warehouses run in US East (Northern Virginia), at more credits an hour than Gen1 on faster hardware: a Medium uses 5.4 credits an hour. Gen1 warehouses are sold there too.
- Is US East (Northern Virginia) one of the cheapest Snowflake regions on AWS?
- Yes. At $3.00 a credit on Enterprise, US East (Northern Virginia) is among the lowest-priced of the 23 AWS regions, with US East 2 (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and AP Mumbai.
- Is Snowflake or Databricks cheaper for SQL in US East (Northern Virginia)?
- At the same speed, a Medium Snowflake warehouse costs $1,782 a month for the example's queries and a Medium Databricks serverless SQL warehouse $1,848, at $0.70 a DBU in US East (N. Virginia). A size name is not a speed, so run your own queries on each before choosing.
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: supported cloud regions (the cloud code of each region)
- 4Snowflake documentation: Snowflake editions
- 5Snowflake documentation: understanding storage cost
- 6Snowflake documentation: understanding data transfer cost
- 7Snowflake documentation: Gen2 standard warehouses
- 8Databricks: pricing on AWS (the price of a DBU for each kind of compute and plan)
- 9Microsoft: Azure Databricks pricing
- 10Databricks: pricing on Google Cloud