Snowflake pricing in Europe West 2 (London)
In Google Cloud Europe West 2 (London), the region the cloud calls europe-west2, a Snowflake credit costs $2.70 on Standard, $4.00 on Enterprise and $5.40 on Business Critical, and storage $23.00 a TB a month. A Medium Gen2 warehouse costs $21.60 an hour there on Enterprise.
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A credit, storage and transfer
- Standard
- $2.70
- A credit
- Enterprise
- $4.00
- A credit
- Business Critical
- $5.40
- A credit
- Storage
- $23.00
- A TB a month
- To Google Cloud
- $20.00
- A TB to another region
- To the internet
- $120
- 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 | $3.65 | $5.40 | $7.29 |
| Small | 2.7 | $7.29 | $10.80 | $14.58 |
| Medium | 5.4 | $14.58 | $21.60 | $29.16 |
| Large | 10.8 | $29.16 | $43.20 | $58.32 |
| X-Large | 21.6 | $58.32 | $86.40 | $117 |
| 2X-Large | 43.2 | $117 | $173 | $233 |
| 3X-Large | 86.4 | $233 | $346 | $467 |
| 4X-Large | 172.8 | $467 | $691 | $933 |
| 5X-LargeGen1 | 256 | $691 | $1,024 | $1,382 |
| 6X-LargeGen1 | 512 | $1,382 | $2,048 | $2,765 |
Every Google Cloud region
A credit on Enterprise, cheapest first.
- US Central 1 (Iowa)us-central1, $3.00 a credit
- US East 4 (N. Virginia)us-east4, $3.00 a credit
- Europe West 3 (Frankfurt)europe-west3, $3.90 a credit
- Europe West 4 (Netherlands)europe-west4, $3.90 a credit
- Europe West 2 (London)europe-west2, $4.00 a credit
- Australia Southeast 2 (Melbourne)australia-southeast2, $4.05 a credit
- Middle East Central 2 (Dammam)me-central2, $4.90 a credit
Questions
- How much does a Snowflake credit cost in Europe West 2 (London)?
- On demand, a credit in Google Cloud Europe West 2 (London) (europe-west2) costs $2.70 on Standard, $4.00 on Enterprise and $5.40 on Business Critical. Capacity contracts agreed with Snowflake pay less.
- How much does a Snowflake warehouse cost an hour in Europe West 2 (London)?
- On Enterprise, an X-Small Gen2 warehouse costs $5.40 an hour for 1.35 credits credits, and a Medium $21.60 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 $2,376 a month.
- How much does Snowflake storage cost in Europe West 2 (London)?
- $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 Europe West 2 (London)?
- Moving a TB to another Google Cloud region costs $20.00, and to another cloud or the internet $120. Loading data in, and moving it within Europe West 2 (London), is free.
- Does Snowflake offer Gen2 warehouses in Europe West 2 (London)?
- Yes. Gen2 standard warehouses run in Europe West 2 (London), 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 Europe West 2 (London) one of the cheapest Snowflake regions on Google Cloud?
- No. A credit on Enterprise costs $4.00 in Europe West 2 (London), 33 percent more than the $3.00 of the cheapest Google Cloud regions, such as US Central 1 (Iowa) and US East 4 (N. Virginia). A warehouse there uses the same credits, so the hour costs 33 percent more in Europe West 2 (London).
- Is Snowflake or Databricks cheaper for SQL in Europe West 2 (London)?
- At the same speed, a Medium Snowflake warehouse costs $2,376 a month for the example's queries and a Medium Databricks serverless SQL warehouse $2,508, at $0.95 a DBU in London (europe-west2). 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