Machine Learning & Data Science · pricing
Snowflake pricing
Snowflake publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Not recorded
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Snowflake plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | On request | 1 | Entry tier |
| Enterprise | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
| Business Critical | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
| Virtual Private Snowflake | On request | 1 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Standard
On requestThe entry tier. It covers consumption-based, per-credit pricing.
Enterprise
On requestNothing on the record separates this tier from Standard on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.
Business Critical
On requestNothing on the record separates this tier from Enterprise on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.
Virtual Private Snowflake
On requestNothing on the record separates this tier from Business Critical on features. Check the vendor's page for the limits it lifts.
What the product covers
The full Snowflake feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Separated Compute/Storage
- Near-zero Maintenance
- Data Sharing
- Time Travel
- Cloning
- Multi-cluster Warehouse
- Semi-structured Data
Integrations
- dbt
- Fivetran
- Tableau
- Looker
- Informatica
Platform
- Web support
- Aws support
- Azure support
- Gcp support
People bring Snowflake in for cloud data warehousing and sql analytics, data engineering and elt pipelines, data sharing and marketplace, ai/ml workloads via snowpark and cortex, bi backend for tools such as tableau and power bi. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Snowflake are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Machine Learning & Data Science
Too few machine learning & data science tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowflake (this page) | Free | - | - | |
| Comet ML | Free | freemium | - | vs Snowflake |
| BentoML | Free | freemium | - | vs Snowflake |
| Anaconda | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs Snowflake |
| Azure Machine Learning | Free | usage-based | - | vs Snowflake |
| BigQuery ML | Free | usage-based | - | vs Snowflake |
| Alteryx | Free | subscription | - | vs Snowflake |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Snowflake badges page.
Before you pay for Snowflake
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between On request and On request, with the jump not itemised on the record. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Snowflake runs on web, api, and is published by Snowflake Inc. of Menlo Park, CA, USA. The full record is on the Snowflake review, and the rest of the category is under best machine learning & data science tools.
Snowflake pricing questions
- How much does Snowflake cost?
- Snowflake publishes 4 tiers, from On request for Standard up to On request for Virtual Private Snowflake. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Snowflake have a free plan?
- Yes, Snowflake is recorded as free, so it can be used without paying.
- Which machine learning & data science tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 machine learning & data science tools listed alongside Snowflake have a free tier: Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning, BigQuery ML.
- What am I actually paying for with Snowflake?
- The record lists 16 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for cloud data warehousing and sql analytics, data engineering and elt pipelines, data sharing and marketplace.
- Does Snowflake charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Snowflake prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Snowflake against before paying?
- The closest machine learning & data science tools in this directory are Comet ML, BentoML, Anaconda, Azure Machine Learning. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Snowflake covering price, platforms and features.