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Snowflake pricing in US East 4 (N. Virginia)

In Google Cloud US East 4 (N. Virginia), the region the cloud calls us-east4, 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.

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Google Cloud · us-east4

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 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$2.70$4.05$5.40
Small2.7$5.40$8.10$10.80
Medium5.4$10.80$16.20$21.60
Large10.8$21.60$32.40$43.20
X-Large21.6$43.20$64.80$86.40
2X-Large43.2$86.40$130$173
3X-Large86.4$173$259$346
4X-Large172.8$346$518$691
5X-LargeGen1256$512$768$1,024
6X-LargeGen1512$1,024$1,536$2,048

Every Google Cloud region

A credit on Enterprise, cheapest first.

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Questions

How much does a Snowflake credit cost in US East 4 (N. Virginia)?
On demand, a credit in Google Cloud US East 4 (N. Virginia) (us-east4) 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 4 (N. 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 4 (N. 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 4 (N. Virginia)?
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 US East 4 (N. Virginia), is free.
Does Snowflake offer Gen2 warehouses in US East 4 (N. Virginia)?
Yes. Gen2 standard warehouses run in US East 4 (N. 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 4 (N. Virginia) one of the cheapest Snowflake regions on Google Cloud?
Yes. At $3.00 a credit on Enterprise, US East 4 (N. Virginia) is among the lowest-priced of the 7 Google Cloud regions, with US Central 1 (Iowa).
Is Snowflake or Databricks cheaper for SQL in US East 4 (N. 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 Northern Virginia (us-east4). 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