# Databricks vs Snowflake

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Snowflake

| Attribute | Databricks | Snowflake |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 52.9 (47% (low)) | 68.1 (63% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Databricks is a data lakehouse platform that merges data lake scalability with warehouse reliability and performance. It enables organizations to ingest, prepare, and analyze data while building AI applications with integrated governance and compliance. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/pricing","question":"What is Databricks?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Databricks offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.07. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://databricks.com","question":"Is Databricks free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Databricks supports the web and Android. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/pricing","question":"What platforms does Databricks support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Databricks, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/creating-better-travel-experiences-all-confronting-airline-pricing","question":"Can Databricks be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 6 integrations for Databricks, including Teams, Slack, Confluence, Power Platform, Copilot Studio and Zerobus. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/pricing","question":"What does Databricks integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Databricks is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/creating-better-travel-experiences-all-confronting-airline-pricing","question":"Where is Databricks available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A fully managed cloud service that unifies data management and analytics across cloud providers, with native support for AI/ML workloads, zero-copy data sharing, and automatic scaling. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"What is Snowflake?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Snowflake is sold across 3 plans: Standard, Enterprise and Business Critical. We have not confirmed a published price for every tier. There is no free tier. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"How much does Snowflake cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Snowflake supports the web, Windows, macOS and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"What platforms does Snowflake support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Snowflake, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"Can Snowflake be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for Snowflake, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Streamlit, Apache Iceberg, PyTorch, NVIDIA and Jira, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"What does Snowflake integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Snowflake. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Snowflake not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/security","question":"What security certifications does Snowflake have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | An integrated data and AI platform built on open formats that merges transactional reliability with analytics and machine learning capabilities, enabling organizations to manage data, models, and AI applications together without vendor lock-in. | Snowflake is a fully managed cloud service that unifies data storage, analytics, machine learning and AI capabilities in a single platform. It enables organizations to process structured and unstructured data, build AI applications and share live data across organizations and cloud environments. |
| features.capabilities | `{"in_db_ml":true,"deployment":"managed","sql_dialect":"vendor","architecture":"separated","data_sharing":true,"compute_model":"serverless","license_class":"proprietary","table_formats":"Delta, Iceberg","semi_structured":"first_class","streaming_ingest":true,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"}` | `{"hosting":"cloud","in_db_ml":true,"data_model":"relational","deployment":"managed","sql_support":true,"data_sharing":true,"compute_model":"virtual_warehouse","license_class":"proprietary","managed_cloud":true,"table_formats":"Apache Iceberg","semi_structured":"first_class","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true,"acid_transactions":true,"horizontal_scaling":true,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"}` |
| integrations.count | 14 | 750 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Teams"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Power Platform"},{"name":"Copilot Studio"},{"name":"Zerobus"},{"name":"Microsoft Power Platform","category":"integration_platform"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat"},{"name":"Apache Spark","native":true},{"name":"MLflow","native":true},{"name":"Delta Lake","native":true},{"name":"Apache Iceberg","native":true},{"name":"Unity Catalog","native":true},{"name":"Lakeflow","native":true},{"name":"Databricks SQL","native":true},{"name":"Databricks Genie","native":true},{"name":"Lakebase","native":true},{"name":"dbt","native":false},{"name":"Trino","native":false},{"name":"LangChain","native":false},{"name":"PyTorch","native":false},{"name":"DSPy","native":false}]` | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"Streamlit"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"PyTorch"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Jira","native":true,"category":"development","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"development","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Data Engineering","summary":"From $0.15 / DBU per second","features":["Orchestrate data processing","Build streaming and batch pipelines","Ingest data from multiple sources"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.15,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Orchestrate data processing, machine learning and analytics pipelines","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Data Warehousing","summary":"From $0.22 / DBU per second","features":["SQL analytics","BI reporting","Available in Classic and Serverless compute"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.22,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Run SQL queries for BI reporting, analytics and visualization","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Interactive Workloads","summary":"From $0.40 / DBU per second","features":["Data science workloads","Build custom applications","Security and governance"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.4,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Run interactive data science and machine learning workloads","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Operational Database","summary":"From $0.069 / CU per second","features":["Postgres database","Data and feature serving"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"CU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.069,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Fully-managed Postgres transactional database for data and feature serving","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Artificial Intelligence","summary":"From $0.07 / DBU per second","features":["GenAI applications","Model Serving","AI Functions","Model Training"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.07,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Build production-quality GenAI or ML applications","contactSales":false},{"free":true,"name":"Genie","summary":"From $0.07 / DBU beyond free usage","features":["Natural language Q&A","AI Coding Assistant","Enterprise Knowledge access"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"DBU"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.07,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"AI assistance for every team with natural language query access","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Pay-as-you-go usage-based pricing from $0.069 / DBU or CU per second. Committed Use Contracts available for volume discounts. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://databricks.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T12:39:38.438Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.069,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","description":"Entry-level offering providing access to core platform functionality","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","description":"For high-growth and large-scale customers with multi-cluster compute, governance and extended data retention","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business Critical","description":"For highly regulated industries requiring advanced security and compliance capabilities","contactSales":true}],"currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T12:39:26.501Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | no |
| pricing.model | free | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | free | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.pci | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/genie-zeroops-data-quality-and-compliance-scale | - |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Databricks | Snowflake |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed cloud | Managed cloud |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | Separated storage/compute | - |
| Compute model | Serverless | Virtual warehouses |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | Vendor-specific | - |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | - | ✓ |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Delta, Iceberg | Apache Iceberg |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | Automatic | Automatic |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | First-class | First-class |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Proprietary |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:14:25.331Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*