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Snowflake pricing in Europe West 3 (Frankfurt)

In Google Cloud Europe West 3 (Frankfurt), the region the cloud calls europe-west3, a Snowflake credit costs $2.60 on Standard, $3.90 on Enterprise and $5.20 on Business Critical, and storage $23.00 a TB a month. A Medium Gen2 warehouse costs $21.06 an hour there on Enterprise.

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Google Cloud · europe-west3

A credit, storage and transfer

Standard
$2.60
A credit
Enterprise
$3.90
A credit
Business Critical
$5.20
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.

SizeCreditsStandardEnterpriseBusiness Critical
X-Small1.35$3.51$5.27$7.02
Small2.7$7.02$10.53$14.04
Medium5.4$14.04$21.06$28.08
Large10.8$28.08$42.12$56.16
X-Large21.6$56.16$84.24$112
2X-Large43.2$112$168$225
3X-Large86.4$225$337$449
4X-Large172.8$449$674$899
5X-LargeGen1256$666$998$1,331
6X-LargeGen1512$1,331$1,997$2,662

Every Google Cloud region

A credit on Enterprise, cheapest first.

Work it out

On the other clouds

Questions

How much does a Snowflake credit cost in Europe West 3 (Frankfurt)?
On demand, a credit in Google Cloud Europe West 3 (Frankfurt) (europe-west3) costs $2.60 on Standard, $3.90 on Enterprise and $5.20 on Business Critical. Capacity contracts agreed with Snowflake pay less.
How much does a Snowflake warehouse cost an hour in Europe West 3 (Frankfurt)?
On Enterprise, an X-Small Gen2 warehouse costs $5.27 an hour for 1.35 credits credits, and a Medium $21.06 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 $2,317 a month.
How much does Snowflake storage cost in Europe West 3 (Frankfurt)?
$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 3 (Frankfurt)?
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 3 (Frankfurt), is free.
Does Snowflake offer Gen2 warehouses in Europe West 3 (Frankfurt)?
Yes. Gen2 standard warehouses run in Europe West 3 (Frankfurt), 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 3 (Frankfurt) one of the cheapest Snowflake regions on Google Cloud?
No. A credit on Enterprise costs $3.90 in Europe West 3 (Frankfurt), 30 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 30 percent more in Europe West 3 (Frankfurt).
Is Snowflake or Databricks cheaper for SQL in Europe West 3 (Frankfurt)?
At the same speed, a Medium Snowflake warehouse costs $2,317 a month for the example's queries and a Medium Databricks serverless SQL warehouse $2,402, at $0.91 a DBU in Frankfurt (europe-west3). A size name is not a speed, so run your own queries on each before choosing.

Sources

Where each fact comes from

  1. 1Snowflake: pricing calculator
  2. 2Snowflake: Service Consumption Table (credits of each warehouse, credit, storage and transfer prices, serverless rates)
  3. 3Snowflake documentation: supported cloud regions (the cloud code of each region)
  4. 4Snowflake documentation: Snowflake editions
  5. 5Snowflake documentation: understanding storage cost
  6. 6Snowflake documentation: understanding data transfer cost
  7. 7Snowflake documentation: Gen2 standard warehouses
  8. 8Databricks: pricing on AWS (the price of a DBU for each kind of compute and plan)
  9. 9Microsoft: Azure Databricks pricing
  10. 10Databricks: pricing on Google Cloud