Warehouse size × active hours × credit price — model the compute bill.
Snowflake bills credits per second the warehouse runs, doubling per size, so auto-suspend and right-sizing are the levers. For the scan-based warehouse model instead, see the BigQuery query cost calculator.
Free Snowflake credit cost calculator — warehouse size, active hours and credit price to your monthly compute bill.
Compute is metered in credits per active hour. Each warehouse size doubles the rate (X-Small = 1 credit/hr, Small = 2, Medium = 4, and so on), billed per second while running. A credit costs roughly $2–$4 depending on your edition and cloud.
Set aggressive auto-suspend (idle warehouses keep burning credits), right-size warehouses to the workload rather than defaulting large, use auto-resume so you are not paying for a warm idle cluster, and separate heavy and light workloads onto appropriately sized warehouses.
Cost at different volumes:
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