Snowflake Small warehouse cost
A Small Gen2 warehouse uses 2.7 credits an hour, so on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia) it costs $8.10 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
Small at a glance
- Gen1 standard
- 2
- Every cloud
- Gen2, AWS
- 2.7
- Gen2, Azure
- 2.5
- Gen2, Google Cloud
- 2.7
- Snowpark, 256 GB
- None
- Starts at Medium
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 | 2.7 | $5.40 | $8.10 | $10.80 |
| Gen1 standard | 2 | $4.00 | $6.00 | $8.00 |
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)$8.10
- US East 2 (Ohio)$8.10
- US West (Oregon)$8.10
- AP Mumbai$8.10
- Africa (Cape Town) · Gen1$8.40
- EU (Zurich) · Gen1$9.30
- Canada Central$9.45
- Europe (Stockholm)$9.72
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia)$9.72
- Asia Pacific (Thailand)$9.72
- AP Singapore$9.99
- Asia Pacific (Jakarta)$9.99
- EU (Paris)$10.53
- EU Dublin$10.53
- EU Frankfurt$10.53
- Europe (London)$10.80
- Middle East (UAE)$10.80
- Asia Pacific (Seoul)$10.94
- AP Sydney$10.94
- Asia Pacific (New Zealand)$10.94
- AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo)$11.61
- Asia Pacific (Osaka)$11.61
- South America East 1 (São Paulo)$12.56
Azure
- East US 2 (Virginia)$7.50
- Central US (Iowa)$7.50
- East US$7.50
- Mexico Central$7.50
- South Central US (Texas)$7.50
- West US 2 (Washington)$7.50
- Central India (Pune)$7.50
- Canada Central (Toronto)$8.75
- Sweden Central$9.00
- Southeast Asia (Singapore)$9.25
- North Europe (Ireland)$9.75
- West Europe (Netherlands)$9.75
- UK South (London)$10.00
- UAE North (Dubai)$10.00
- Korea Central$10.13
- Australia East (New South Wales)$10.13
- Japan East (Tokyo)$10.75
- Switzerland North$11.63
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 Small warehouse use?
- A Small uses 2 credits an hour as a Gen1 standard warehouse. As Gen2 it uses 2.7 on AWS, 2.5 on Azure and 2.7 on Google Cloud. Each cluster of a multi-cluster warehouse uses the same again.
- How much does a Snowflake Small warehouse cost an hour?
- In AWS US East (Northern Virginia), a Small Gen2 warehouse costs $5.40 an hour on Standard, $8.10 on Enterprise and $10.80 on Business Critical, for 2.7 credits an hour. Each region sets its own price for a credit, so the hour costs more or less there.
- What does a Small warehouse cost for 10 minutes?
- $1.35 on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia): Snowflake bills by the second, so 10 minutes uses a sixth of the 2.7 credits an hour, 0.45 credits. Each start bills at least 60 seconds, $0.135, and the warehouse keeps billing until it suspends, 10 idle minutes by default.
- What does a Snowflake Small warehouse cost a month?
- Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, with the default auto-suspend, a Small Gen2 warehouse is billed 5 hours a day and costs $891 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 Small warehouse?
- On Enterprise, a Small costs least in Azure East US 2 (Virginia), Azure Central US (Iowa), Azure East US and 4 other regions, at $7.50 an hour, and most in AWS South America East 1 (São Paulo), at $12.56, 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 Small the same as a Databricks Small SQL warehouse?
- Only in name. A Databricks Small serverless SQL warehouse uses 12 DBUs an hour, $8.40 at $0.70 a DBU in AWS US East (Northern Virginia), against $8.10 for the Snowflake Small. 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 Small?
- One size down is X-Small, at 1 credits an hour on Gen1; one size up is Medium, at 4. 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