Snowflake X-Small warehouse cost
A X-Small Gen2 warehouse uses 1.35 credits an hour, so on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia) it costs $4.05 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
X-Small at a glance
- Gen1 standard
- 1
- Every cloud
- Gen2, AWS
- 1.35
- Gen2, Azure
- 1.25
- Gen2, Google Cloud
- 1.35
- 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 | 1.35 | $2.70 | $4.05 | $5.40 |
| Gen1 standard | 1 | $2.00 | $3.00 | $4.00 |
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)$4.05
- US East 2 (Ohio)$4.05
- US West (Oregon)$4.05
- AP Mumbai$4.05
- Africa (Cape Town) · Gen1$4.20
- EU (Zurich) · Gen1$4.65
- Canada Central$4.73
- Europe (Stockholm)$4.86
- Asia Pacific (Malaysia)$4.86
- Asia Pacific (Thailand)$4.86
- AP Singapore$5.00
- Asia Pacific (Jakarta)$5.00
- EU (Paris)$5.27
- EU Dublin$5.27
- EU Frankfurt$5.27
- Europe (London)$5.40
- Middle East (UAE)$5.40
- Asia Pacific (Seoul)$5.47
- AP Sydney$5.47
- Asia Pacific (New Zealand)$5.47
- AP Northeast 1 (Tokyo)$5.80
- Asia Pacific (Osaka)$5.80
- South America East 1 (São Paulo)$6.28
Azure
- East US 2 (Virginia)$3.75
- Central US (Iowa)$3.75
- East US$3.75
- Mexico Central$3.75
- South Central US (Texas)$3.75
- West US 2 (Washington)$3.75
- Central India (Pune)$3.75
- Canada Central (Toronto)$4.38
- Sweden Central$4.50
- Southeast Asia (Singapore)$4.63
- North Europe (Ireland)$4.88
- West Europe (Netherlands)$4.88
- UK South (London)$5.00
- UAE North (Dubai)$5.00
- Korea Central$5.06
- Australia East (New South Wales)$5.06
- Japan East (Tokyo)$5.38
- Switzerland North$5.81
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 X-Small warehouse use?
- A X-Small uses 1 credits an hour as a Gen1 standard warehouse. As Gen2 it uses 1.35 on AWS, 1.25 on Azure and 1.35 on Google Cloud. Each cluster of a multi-cluster warehouse uses the same again.
- How much does a Snowflake X-Small warehouse cost an hour?
- In AWS US East (Northern Virginia), a X-Small Gen2 warehouse costs $2.70 an hour on Standard, $4.05 on Enterprise and $5.40 on Business Critical, for 1.35 credits an hour. Each region sets its own price for a credit, so the hour costs more or less there.
- What does a X-Small warehouse cost for 10 minutes?
- $0.675 on Enterprise in AWS US East (Northern Virginia): Snowflake bills by the second, so 10 minutes uses a sixth of the 1.35 credits an hour, 0.23 credits. Each start bills at least 60 seconds, $0.068, and the warehouse keeps billing until it suspends, 10 idle minutes by default.
- What does a Snowflake X-Small warehouse cost a month?
- Running queries 4 hours a day over 6 starts, 22 days a month, with the default auto-suspend, a X-Small Gen2 warehouse is billed 5 hours a day and costs $446 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 X-Small warehouse?
- On Enterprise, a X-Small costs least in Azure East US 2 (Virginia), Azure Central US (Iowa), Azure East US and 4 other regions, at $3.75 an hour, and most in AWS South America East 1 (São Paulo), at $6.28, 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 X-Small the same as a Databricks X-Small SQL warehouse?
- Only in name. A Databricks X-Small serverless SQL warehouse uses 6 DBUs an hour, $4.20 at $0.70 a DBU in AWS US East (Northern Virginia), against $4.05 for the Snowflake X-Small. The machines and engines differ, so the same queries take a different time on each.
- What is the next Snowflake warehouse size up from X-Small?
- X-Small is the smallest Snowflake warehouse. One size up is Small, at 2 credits an hour on Gen1, twice as many.
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