Snowflake Large warehouse cost
A Large Gen2 warehouse uses 10.8 credits an hour, so on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia) it costs $32.40 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
Large at a glance
- Gen1 standard
- 8
- Every cloud
- Gen2, AWS
- 10.8
- Gen2, Azure
- 10
- Gen2, Google Cloud
- 10.8
- Snowpark, 256 GB
- 12
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen2 standard | 10.8 | $21.60 | $32.40 | $43.20 |
| Gen1 standard | 8 | $16.00 | $24.00 | $32.00 |
| Snowpark-optimized, 256 GB | 12 | $24.00 | $36.00 | $48.00 |
| Snowpark-optimized, 1 TB | 15 | $30.00 | $45.00 | $60.00 |
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)$32.40
- US East 2 (Ohio)$32.40
- US West (Oregon)$32.40
- AP Mumbai$32.40
- Africa (Cape Town) · Gen1$33.60
- EU (Zurich) · Gen1$37.20
- Canada Central$37.80
- Europe (Stockholm)$38.88
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia)$38.88
- Asia Pacific (Thailand)$38.88
- AP Singapore$39.96
- Asia Pacific (Jakarta)$39.96
- EU (Paris)$42.12
- EU Dublin$42.12
- EU Frankfurt$42.12
- Europe (London)$43.20
- Middle East (UAE)$43.20
- Asia Pacific (Seoul)$43.74
- AP Sydney$43.74
- Asia Pacific (New Zealand)$43.74
- AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo)$46.44
- Asia Pacific (Osaka)$46.44
- South America East 1 (São Paulo)$50.22
Azure
- East US 2 (Virginia)$30.00
- Central US (Iowa)$30.00
- East US$30.00
- Mexico Central$30.00
- South Central US (Texas)$30.00
- West US 2 (Washington)$30.00
- Central India (Pune)$30.00
- Canada Central (Toronto)$35.00
- Sweden Central$36.00
- Southeast Asia (Singapore)$37.00
- North Europe (Ireland)$39.00
- West Europe (Netherlands)$39.00
- UK South (London)$40.00
- UAE North (Dubai)$40.00
- Korea Central$40.50
- Australia East (New South Wales)$40.50
- Japan East (Tokyo)$43.00
- Switzerland North$46.50
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 Large warehouse use?
- A Large uses 8 credits an hour as a Gen1 standard warehouse. As Gen2 it uses 10.8 on AWS, 10 on Azure and 10.8 on Google Cloud. Each cluster of a multi-cluster warehouse uses the same again.
- How much does a Snowflake Large warehouse cost an hour?
- In AWS US East (Northern Virginia), a Large Gen2 warehouse costs $21.60 an hour on Standard, $32.40 on Enterprise and $43.20 on Business Critical, for 10.8 credits an hour. Each region sets its own price for a credit, so the hour costs more or less there.
- What does a Large warehouse cost for 10 minutes?
- $5.40 on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia): Snowflake bills by the second, so 10 minutes uses a sixth of the 10.8 credits an hour, 1.8 credits. Each start bills at least 60 seconds, $0.54, and the warehouse keeps billing until it suspends, 10 idle minutes by default.
- What does a Snowflake Large warehouse cost a month?
- Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, with the default auto-suspend, a Large Gen2 warehouse is billed 5 hours a day and costs $3,564 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 Large warehouse?
- On Enterprise, a Large costs least in Azure East US 2 (Virginia), Azure Central US (Iowa), Azure East US and 4 other regions, at $30.00 an hour, and most in AWS South America East 1 (São Paulo), at $50.22, 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 a Snowflake Large the same as a Databricks Large SQL warehouse?
- Only in name. A Databricks Large serverless SQL warehouse uses 40 DBUs an hour, $28.00 at $0.70 a DBU in AWS US East (Northern Virginia), against $32.40 for the Snowflake Large. The machines and engines differ, so the same queries take a different time on each.
- Is there a Snowpark-optimized Large warehouse?
- Yes. A Snowpark-optimized Large, with up to 256 GB of memory a node, uses 12 credits an hour and 15 with up to 1 TB. It suits code with large memory needs, such as machine learning training.
- What is the next Snowflake warehouse size up or down from Large?
- One size down is Medium, at 4 credits an hour on Gen1; one size up is X-Large, at 16. Each size up doubles the credits, so a query that finishes in half the time on the larger size costs the same.
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