Data Warehouse · pricing · Updated September 2026
Snowflake pricing (2026)
Snowflake publishes no monthly price — its published figure is on another basis (annual-only, non-USD, or one-time) as checked on 2026-09-02, read from Snowflake's own pricing page; 4 plans. Best for Enterprise multi-cloud analytics requiring unified governance. Every figure below links to its source and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Entry price: not priced monthly
- Free tier: No · 30-day trial
- Compliance: HIPAA Yes · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Yes
- 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
As of · every figure below links to its source
Snowflake plans & pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard (On-Demand, AWS US East) | not priced monthly | — | 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) | not priced monthly | — | 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) | not priced monthly | — | 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 |
Last verified 2026-09-02. 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. Re-verified 2026-09-02 against the live pricing page; published figures unchanged.
Price changes
No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.
Capabilities
Integrations: dbt, Fivetran, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Apache Spark, Kafka, AWS S3, Snowpark (Python/Java/Scala).
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.
Frequently asked questions
Does Snowflake support HIPAA?
Snowflake HIPAA support: Yes. SOC 2: Yes. GDPR: Yes.
Does Snowflake have a free plan?
Snowflake free tier: No; 30-day free trial.
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