# Snowflake pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** Quote-only — no self-serve price published.
**Domain:** snowflake.com
**Free tier:** No · 30-day free trial
**Compliance:** HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
**Integrations:** dbt, Fivetran, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Apache Spark, Kafka, AWS S3, Snowpark (Python/Java/Scala)
**Best for:** Enterprise multi-cloud analytics requiring unified governance; HIPAA-regulated teams (Business Critical or VPS edition); Organizations sharing data externally via Snowflake Marketplace; Multi-language data engineering teams using Snowpark

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Standard (On-Demand, AWS US East) | Quote-only | — | custom | Consumption-based: ~$2.00/credit on-demand (AWS US East). Storage $40/TB-month on-demand. No flat monthly fee; pay only for compute consumed. 60-second minimum per virtual warehouse start. | snowflake.com |
| Enterprise (On-Demand, AWS US East) | Quote-only | — | custom | Consumption-based: ~$3.00/credit on-demand (AWS US East). Adds multi-cluster warehouses, materialized views, column-level security. Storage $40/TB-month on-demand. | snowflake.com |
| Business Critical (On-Demand, AWS US East) | Quote-only | — | custom | Consumption-based: ~$4.00/credit on-demand (AWS US East). HIPAA-eligible edition; BAA required. Adds HIPAA/PCI DSS support, Tri-Secret Secure, AWS PrivateLink. Storage $40/TB-month on-demand. | snowflake.com |
| Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) | Quote-only | — | custom | Quote-only. Fully isolated single-tenant environment. ~$6.00/credit on-demand (AWS US East) per third-party sources; negotiated directly with Snowflake. Highest compliance tier. | snowflake.com |

**Key features:** Separation of storage and compute with independent scaling and multi-cluster virtual warehouses; Snowpark: run Python, Java, Scala workloads in-platform without data movement; Snowflake Horizon: unified governance, security, and compliance across all workloads; Time Travel and Fail-safe for point-in-time data recovery up to 90 days; Cross-cloud, cross-region secure data sharing and Marketplace without data copies.

**Plan limits:** 30-day trial; trial accounts limited to ~10 credits/day for Cortex AI Functions without payment method; No forever-free plan; account suspended after trial ends; Storage billed at $40/TB-month on-demand across all editions; HIPAA available only on Business Critical and VPS editions.

Sources: 1 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official pricing page snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/pricing-options/ shows consumption model but no USD figures (region dropdown required, PDF binary-only). Credit costs sourced from select.dev 2025 billing guide (corroborated by cloudzero.com Apr 2026 article stating $2/credit Standard on AWS US East on-demand). HIPAA: Business Critical and VPS editions only, BAA required per docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/intro-editions.
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