Snowflake Medium warehouse cost
A Medium Gen2 warehouse uses 5.4 credits an hour, so on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia) it costs $16.20 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
Medium at a glance
- Gen1 standard
- 4
- Every cloud
- Gen2, AWS
- 5.4
- Gen2, Azure
- 5
- Gen2, Google Cloud
- 5.4
- Snowpark, 256 GB
- 6
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 | 5.4 | $10.80 | $16.20 | $21.60 |
| Gen1 standard | 4 | $8.00 | $12.00 | $16.00 |
| Snowpark-optimized, 256 GB | 6 | $12.00 | $18.00 | $24.00 |
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)$16.20
- US East 2 (Ohio)$16.20
- US West (Oregon)$16.20
- AP Mumbai$16.20
- Africa (Cape Town) · Gen1$16.80
- EU (Zurich) · Gen1$18.60
- Canada Central$18.90
- Europe (Stockholm)$19.44
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia)$19.44
- Asia Pacific (Thailand)$19.44
- AP Singapore$19.98
- Asia Pacific (Jakarta)$19.98
- EU (Paris)$21.06
- EU Dublin$21.06
- EU Frankfurt$21.06
- Europe (London)$21.60
- Middle East (UAE)$21.60
- Asia Pacific (Seoul)$21.87
- AP Sydney$21.87
- Asia Pacific (New Zealand)$21.87
- AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo)$23.22
- Asia Pacific (Osaka)$23.22
- South America East 1 (São Paulo)$25.11
Azure
- East US 2 (Virginia)$15.00
- Central US (Iowa)$15.00
- East US$15.00
- Mexico Central$15.00
- South Central US (Texas)$15.00
- West US 2 (Washington)$15.00
- Central India (Pune)$15.00
- Canada Central (Toronto)$17.50
- Sweden Central$18.00
- Southeast Asia (Singapore)$18.50
- North Europe (Ireland)$19.50
- West Europe (Netherlands)$19.50
- UK South (London)$20.00
- UAE North (Dubai)$20.00
- Korea Central$20.25
- Australia East (New South Wales)$20.25
- Japan East (Tokyo)$21.50
- Switzerland North$23.25
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 Medium warehouse use?
- A Medium uses 4 credits an hour as a Gen1 standard warehouse. As Gen2 it uses 5.4 on AWS, 5 on Azure and 5.4 on Google Cloud. Each cluster of a multi-cluster warehouse uses the same again.
- How much does a Snowflake Medium warehouse cost an hour?
- In AWS US East (Northern Virginia), a Medium Gen2 warehouse costs $10.80 an hour on Standard, $16.20 on Enterprise and $21.60 on Business Critical, for 5.4 credits an hour. Each region sets its own price for a credit, so the hour costs more or less there.
- What does a Medium warehouse cost for 10 minutes?
- $2.70 on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia): Snowflake bills by the second, so 10 minutes uses a sixth of the 5.4 credits an hour, 0.9 credits. Each start bills at least 60 seconds, $0.27, and the warehouse keeps billing until it suspends, 10 idle minutes by default.
- What does a Snowflake Medium warehouse cost a month?
- Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, with the default auto-suspend, a Medium Gen2 warehouse is billed 5 hours a day and costs $1,782 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 Medium warehouse?
- On Enterprise, a Medium costs least in Azure East US 2 (Virginia), Azure Central US (Iowa), Azure East US and 4 other regions, at $15.00 an hour, and most in AWS South America East 1 (São Paulo), at $25.11, 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 Medium the same as a Databricks Medium SQL warehouse?
- Only in name. A Databricks Medium serverless SQL warehouse uses 24 DBUs an hour, $16.80 at $0.70 a DBU in AWS US East (Northern Virginia), against $16.20 for the Snowflake Medium. The machines and engines differ, so the same queries take a different time on each.
- What is the next Snowflake warehouse size up or down from Medium?
- One size down is Small, at 2 credits an hour on Gen1; one size up is Large, at 8. 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