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Snowflake cost calculator
Snowflake bills compute by the second, in credits, and the number sneaks up on people. Put in your warehouse size, how long it runs, and your storage, and get a realistic monthly and annual estimate — plus a sense of what a leaner setup would cost. No email required.
Estimated Snowflake cost
$2,135 / mo
$25,620 per year
Most of that is compute you rent by the second. If this warehouse runs most of the workday, you're paying elastic pricing for a steady workload. A right-sized always-on server, or a self-hosted engine like ClickHouse, DuckDB or Postgres that could handle it, often runs a flat $150–$500/month — and doesn't meter your queries.
A rough estimate to start a conversation, not a quote. Your real number depends on query patterns, concurrency and data size.
Credit consumption per warehouse size is from Snowflake's published figures (each size up doubles the credits per hour). Cost per credit and storage rates vary by edition, region and contract — adjust them to match your account.
Why the estimate is usually a surprise
A warehouse left running through a scheduled job, an idle-but-not-suspended cluster, or a dashboard that re-queries every few seconds — each quietly burns credits. The headline "pennies per credit" is true and misleading at the same time: it's the hours that add up.
The point of this calculator isn't to tell you Snowflake is wrong. Sometimes the elastic, zero-ops, multi-team warehouse is exactly what you should pay for. The point is to make the number visible before you decide — and to notice when a steady workload is sitting on pricing designed for spiky ones. If that's you, a lot of it may fit comfortably on a leaner engine: see DuckDB vs Snowflake and ClickHouse vs Snowflake.
Want the real number for your workload, not an estimate? A Data Platform Audit maps your actual spend and what a leaner setup would cost — a week, a written roadmap, yours to keep.